Sony's named the tech behind the PSP Remaster series of PSP to PS3 HD remakes, and offered an overview of what it's capable of.

The 'PSP Engine' was introduced by Sony's Kentaro Suzuki during a session at the Game Tools & Middleware Forum 2011 event in Tokyo last night.

The tech acts as a middle ground between the PlayStation 3 operating system and a PSP game, while offering the following features:

High res rendering
Control (with Dual Analogue support) through wireless controllers (Dualshock 3/Sixaxis)
3D stereoscopic output
Ad-hoc Party unification
Main memory and graphic memory expansion
Common save data
One such PSP HD remake for the PlayStation 3 is Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, announced at E3 earlier this month. Have a look at the gameplay video if you missed it.

Speaking about HD remakes on the PS3 more widely, new group president and CEO of SCE International Andrew House told CVG that the glossy sheen will be given to games where there's demand.

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Last week's Zelda-fuelled sales bump for the 3DS has proved short-lived, with the PSP regaining its hardware crown in the latest Japanese chart.

As reported by Andrisang, the PSP sold 29,168 units to take the top spot, followed by the 3DS, which was down from 40,649 last week to 27,905.

The PlayStation 3 and Wii both saw modest increases in third and fourth respectively.

PSP: 29,168 (Last week: 31,741)
3DS: 27,905 (40,649)
PS3: 16,993 (16,081)
Wii: 9,511 (6,678)
DSi LL: 4,903 (5,464)
DSi: 4,503 (5,322)
X360: 2,152 (2,875)
PS2: 1,332 (1,346)
DS Lite: 134 (109)
PSP go: 21 (55)
On the software side, PlayStation 3 RPG Atelier Meruru: Alchemist of Arland 3 came in first. Last week's number one Little Battle eXperience fell to four, one ahead of Ocarina of Time 3D in its second week on sale.

A few Western-developed titles snuck into the chart – the PS3 version of Mass Effect 2 down at 13 and Grand Theft Auto IV Complete Edition at 17.

Here's the full top 20:

Atelier Meruru: Alchemist of Arland 3 (Gust, PS3): 82,585 NEW!
Steins; Gate (5pb., PSP): 63,558 NEW!
Gundam Memories: Memories of the Battle (Namco Bandai, PSP): 52,067 NEW!
Little Battle eXperience (Level 5, PSP): 38,326 (Life to date: 204,513)
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of time 3D (Nintendo, 3DS): 37,452 (201,563)
Tennis no Oujisama Gyutto! Doki Doki Survival Umi to Yama no Love Passion (Konami, DS): 30,234 NEW!
Yakuza Of The End (Sega, PS3): 24,247 (376,738)
Bleach Soul Ignition (SCEJ, PS3): 23,516 NEW!
Wii Sports Resort (Wii Remote Plus Pack) (Nintendo, Wii): 9,874 (362,957)
Gloria Union (Atlus, PSP): 8,933 NEW!
Pokemon Black & White (Nintendo, DS): 7,086 (5,211,443)
Wii Party (Nintendo, Wii): 5,980 (1,923,731)
Mass Effect 2 (Electronic Arts, PS3): 5,885 NEW!
Dragon Quest Monsters Joker 2 Professional (Square Enix, DS): 5,814 (543,834)
Resident Evil The Mercenaries 3D (Capcom, 3DS): 5,633 (89,038)
Mother Goose no Himitsu no Kan Nursery Rhymes for You (QuinRose, PSP): 5,295 NEW!
Grand Theft Auto IV Complete Edition (Take-Two, PS3): 4,629 NEW!
One Piece Unlimited Cruise Special (Namco Bandai, 3DS): 4,289 (116,463)
Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo, Wii): 4,154 (3,249,050)
Earth Seeker (Kadokawa Games, Wii): 4,055 NEW!

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Sony's brand perception is "clearly" recovering following the PSN security breach PR cataclysm last month, so says CEO Howard Stringer.

Speaking at Sony's annual meeting in a Tokyo hotel, as reported by the BBC, Stringer apologised for the hack and praised PlayStation gamers for returning to the system.

"Our brand perception, you'll be happy to know, is clearly improving again," he insisted.

"My foremost responsibility to the board and all of you is to further advance the transformation process, firmly establish Sony's position as a global product, content and service leader in the networked digital era and ensure our continued development and growth."

Stringer also took the opportunity to announce that he'd taken a pay-cut. His salary and bonuses have fallen 16 per cent to a meagre ¥345m yen (around £2.7m) a year.

Even so, some shareholders in attendance didn't seem to have a great deal of faith in the chief executive, with one calling for him to resign. The company's stock has dropped 30 per cent over the last 12 months and it has recorded three consecutive years of losses.

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Former Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) president Andrew House has been made president of Sony Computer Entertainment International (SCEI), with SCEE co-COO Jim Ryan taking House's place.

Current SCEI chairman Akira Sato will retire from the role in August 31, leaving the way for Sony Corp. deputy executive president Kazuo Hirai to take his place and for House to become president of SCEI.

At the same time as the announcement PlayStation creator Ken Kutaragi stepped down as honorary chairman of SCEI, although he still maintains his senior technology advisory role at Sony.

"Since returning to SCE two years ago, I have focused on further expanding our business in the European/PAL territories and regaining our market leadership there," said House.

"I believe there is huge potential for further growth of our business globally, and I’m looking forward to working with everyone in the SCE group and with other groups in Sony to help achieve this potential by pursuing the creation of brand new user experiences."

"I’m confident that the skills and expertise Andy has gained over two decades working for Sony and SCE Group will contribute enormously in leading the PlayStation business and to bring new initiatives in managing the business in the networked era," said Hirari.

"I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to the great support from third party game developers and publishers and particularly to the wonderful creators all over the world," said Sato on his retirement.

"Without the great content from a wide spectrum of genres made by third party game developers and publishers, as well as SCE Worldwide Studios, PlayStation would not be where it is now," he added.

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Sony has released this week's list of new content on its PlayStation Store in US.

The highlight of the list is of course the Uncharted: Drake's Deception multiplayer beta, which is only available to PS Plus subscribers this week (more details here). Streets of Rage 2 is also up for grabs.

Beyond Good & Evil is a must download for anyone who missed Ubisoft's epic quest when it released on last-gen consoles and there's a Duke Nukem Forever demo those who fancy seeing if all those critical reviews are true.

Here's the full list:


PlayStation Plus

Featured Games & DLC
UNCHARTED 3 Drake's Deception Multiplayer Beta (Free and exclusive to Plus)
Streets of Rage 2 (Free with Plus - a $4.99 value)

Discounted Games
Dead Space Ignition (PlayStation Plus price $2.50; a 50% discount)
Deathspank (PlayStation Plus price $7.50; a 50% discount)
Deathspank Thongs of Virtue (PlayStation Plus price $7.50; a 50% discount)
Funky Lab Rat (Full Game) (PlayStation Plus price $3.00; a 70% discount)
Mahjong Tales: Ancient Wisdom (PlayStation Plus price $3.99; 20% additional discount on two week sale price)
MicroBot (PlayStation Plus price $5.00; a 50% discount)
Shank (PlayStation Plus price $5.00; a 50% discount)
Spare Parts (PlayStation Plus price $5.00; a 50% discount)
Tetris (PlayStation Plus price $5.00; a 50% discount)
The Fancy Pants Adventures (PlayStation Plus price $5.00, a 50% discount)

Featured Themes & Avatars
Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition - 4 Avatar Bundle (Exclusive to Plus for $0.49)

Updates

MAG Interdiction Mission Pack - Price Drop (PS3) (now FREE, original price $4.99)
MAG Escalation Mission Pack - Price Drop (PS3) (now $4.99, original price $9.99)

Downloadable Games

Beyond Good And Evil HD ($9.99)
Beyond Good & Evil, the award-winning action-adventure game from Ubisoft, is back on PlayStation Network, now with high-definition graphics. Play as Jade, a young investigative reporter, and expose a terrible government conspiracy; save your planet and its inhabitants. Special offer: get two avatars with purchase, now through July 12, 2011.
ESRB Rated T
File size: 1.5GB

Gatling Gears ($9.99)
When the Empire begins its reign of destruction in a thirst for natural resources, it's up to Max Brawley, a retired Gatling Gear pilot to fight his way to the heart of the Empire and eliminate the destruction at its source.
ESRB Rated E10+
File size: 1.41 GB

Puzzle Dimension ($8.99)
Easy to learn hard to master. Within minutes you will move in 3D structures and solve puzzles never seen before. 100 unique twisted puzzles. Classic fun puzzle elements: Blocks of ice and fire. Teleporters, buttons, spikes and more. Adaptive audiovisuals. Your movement and progression affects the graphics and music as you play.
ESRB Rated E
File size: 218 MB

Streets Of Rage 2 ($4.99)
To commemorate their defeat of the Syndicate exactly one year before, Blaze, Adam and Axel went out to celebrate. The next morning, however, Axel received a frantic phone call from Adam's younger brother, Eddie 'Skate' Hunter; Adam's been kidnaped! Axel and Blaze team up with Skate and Max Thunder to free the city and rescue Adam from the Syndicate. It is up to you to take down Mr. X once and for all!
ESRB Rated E
File size: 36 MB

Game Demos (free)

MotorStorm Apocalypse Multiplayer Demo
Take a test drive at the end of the world with the explosive online multiplayer demo for MotorStorm Apocalypse to get a taste of some of the deep community and online racing features available in the full game! Download the multiplayer demo today before it's too late! Available through July 5 only. Supports both 2D and stereoscopic 3D gameplay.
ESRB Rated T
File size: 1.78 GB

PlayStation Move Ape Escape Demo
Check out the demo and sample the next chapter in the Ape Escape saga; an original new adventure full of monkeys and mayhem designed exclusively for the PlayStation Move!
ESRB Rated E10+
File size: 461 MB

Beyond Good & Evil HD Demo
Beyond Good & Evil, the award-winning action-adventure game from Ubisoft, is back on PlayStation Network, now with high-definition graphics. Play as Jade, a young investigative reporter, and expose a terrible government conspiracy; save your planet and its inhabitants. Try it now!
ESRB Rated T
File size: 1.47 GB

Duke Nukem Forever Demo
Babes, bullets, bombs, and more babes- Duke Nukem Forever is the game you've been waiting 12 long years to play, and now it's finally here. Blow up the alien bastards, interact with Duke's world, woo the ladies, drive Duke's monster truck, boost up your ego, and much much more. Download now, and Come Get Some!
ESRB Rated M
File size: 1.37 GB

Dungeon Hunter: Alliance Demo
Dungeon Hunter: Alliance is the first action RPG game for the PlayStation 3 system that immerses you in the heart of a unique multiplayer experience, local and online. Face the world of Gothicus and its hordes of creatures alone or in teams of up to 4 heroes. The main quest, side quests, and the innumerable items to collect offer hours of play in a superbly modeled gothic universe.
ESRB Rated T
File size: 942 MB

Gatling Gears Demo
When the Empire begins its reign of destruction in a thirst for natural resources, it's up to Max Brawley, a retired Gatling Gear pilot to fight his way to the heart of the Empire and eliminate the destruction at its source.
ESRB Rated E10+
File size: 1.41 GB

Homefront Multiplayer Demo
This all new Homefront multiplayer demo features intense infantry and vehicle combat on dedicated servers, revolutionary Battle Points and Battle Commander systems, and 10 levels of weapon and ability unlocks. Download it today!
ESRB Rated M
File size: 1.07 GB

NCAA Football 12 Demo
Experience the pride and pageantry of gameday like never before with the NCAA Football 12 demo. With an enhanced in-game presentation, new traditions, and an all-new tackling system, make an impact by leading your team to victory. Play in two exciting match-ups as ...

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TempAR v1.63 Beta (2011/06/27) is released. TempAR is an almost complete rewrite of the popular PSP cheat device NitePR/MKULTRA by PSP Developer raing3. TempAR contains many additional functionalities as well as improvements to the existing functionalities.

Features:
- Supports CWCheat and PSPAR code types, support for NitePR codes was removed though codes can be made compatible using the included converter.
- Re-written search functionality which much faster known and unknown memory search speed and less wear on the memory stick (in some cases search speed is more than 100x faster).
- Cheats load almost instantly, no need to wait for your cheats to load on boot. It only takes ~2 seconds to parse a 2MB file.
- Works with homebrew (uses same Game ID as CWCheat) and PSX games.
- Supports grouping of codes into 2 types of collapsible folders, single-select folders and multi-select folders. Comments can also be grouped into folders.
- UMD dumper to create ISO images from UMDs and PSStore EBOOTs.
- Text viewer to view guides during gameplay, place text files in ms0:/seplugins/TempAR/text/{gameid}.txt.
- No need to press the HOME button each time you start a game unlike other NitePR mods.

TempAR v1.63 Beta (2011/06/27) changelog:


[+] User can now change the maximum number of cheats/code lines which can be loaded.
[+] Added support for loading codes from PSPAR .bin files (checksum not validated).
[+] Added support for loading codes from NitePR .txt files (converted to PSPAR on load).
[+] Added 0xC1 code type (call function with arguments) to PSPAR extended engine.
[+] Added 0xC2 code type (run code from cheat list) to PSPAR extended engine.
[+] Added 0xC4 code type (safe data store) to PSPAR engine. Depending on usage this
code type could interfere with auto-off feature.
[+] Added 0xC5 code type (counter) to PSPAR extended engine.
[+] Can add search results in CWCheat format by pressing SQUARE on the search result
instead of CROSS.
[+] Added support for PSX GameShark codes.
[+] Added HB blacklist file to disable HB Game ID generation in certain games. This is
useful for shells such as Xplora, Prometheus ISO Launcher, etc.
[+] Added PSP Utilities application which contains various cheat helper functionality
(requires Java).
[+] Added option to swap functionality of CROSS and CIRCLE buttons in the TempAR menu.
[+] Added multi-lingual support for the interface.
[+] Added Japanese translation (thanks to HARO).
[+] Added support for folders in folders using 0xCF code type.
[-] Removed thread list and module list from lite version to reduce size.
[-] Removed copy to text file from Disassembler.
[-] Removed old PC tools since the functionality they offered is now integrated into TempAR.
[!] Fixes to the conditional code types and 0xD0 code type (thanks HARO)
[?] Temporary data buffers are only allocated when needed to reduce memory usage.
[?] Rewrote cheat.db file parser to make it ~1/3 faster.
Old Parser: 62 seconds (58.9MB)
New Parser: 42 seconds (58.9MB)
[?] Removed autooff version, auto-off functionality is merged with both tempar.prx and
tempar_lite.prx. To enable auto-off change "Enable Autooff" from False to True in
the [PRX] tab, Save Settings and reload the cheat file. (once you reload a game
auto-off functionality will be enabled by default).
[?] Pressing LTRIGGER in cheat menu now toggles cheat engine between active/deactive.
[?] Rewrote function used to get home screen frame buffer. Should now work with
homebrew which doesn't use the Sony exit screen and no longer has to allocate
RAM for custom framebuffer in PSX games.

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New release from developer neur0n who returns to take care of her now known CF ME bringing it to version 6:39 7. The basic version of the CF developed for the PSP Fat and Slim TA-088v3 is not, as usual, is accompanied by LCFW, also usable on the PSP version is not hackable.



Neur0n is constantly at work on its firmware is version ME to 6:39 LCFW smooth in order to use it on the PSP is not hackable. The CF-7 ME 6:39 just released fixes some bugs that caused the crash of LEDA (for specific tools to start homebrew FW 1.50), leads from level 5 to level one type of content filter for the ISO and extends the path to 64 characters maximum supported by the PluginManager.
CF remember that this is exclusively for PSP FAT and SLIM except for the infamous TA-088v3 (DATE CODE 8C or higher). So basic are excluded from all other models of PSP.
Thanks to a good installer released by the developer, you can use that CF for all models of PSP consoles 05G excluded. The tool in question is called LCFW, and being signed in order to run on OFW you can not host it on servers to PSP-ENG, is also prohibited from providing direct or indirect link to the download.
Following further information from the changelog to the mini guide Installation of the CF-7 ME 6:39 .

[Additional info: ChangeLog, compatibility testing and installation]

.: Changelog:.
- Fixed crash When useing Dark_AleX's LEDA.
- Change the Parental Level iso from 5 to 1.
- Increase Path plugin PluginManager character buffer from 32 to 64.

.: Test:.
Test installation made
​​from 5.00m33 -> OK
From 5.50GEN-D3 -> OK (edit version.txt)
From 5.50Prometheus -> OK (edit version.txt)
From 6.20TN-D -> OK
From 6.20PRO-B4 -> Error
From 6.35PRO -B4 -> Error
From 6.20PRO-B5 -> OK
From 6.35PRO-B5 -> OK
From 6.39PRO-B6 -> OK .: Installation:.



E 'on your PSP requires the presence of a CFW or a HEN (based on test compatibility)
Copy the UPDATE folder into PSP / GAME
Copy the FW 6:39 , renamed 639.PBP in the UPDATE folder
Start the application from the XMB

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The Lavalit guys have released a new version of their Beatem Up for the Dreamcast, PSP, Wiz, Wii, GP2x and Dingoo:

penBOR is a continuation of the Beats Of Rage 2D game engine, which was originally
created by the wonderful folks over at http://www.senileteam.com.


History
----------------------
In 2004, Senile Team released Beats of Rage, a free beat-'em-up for DOS inspired
by SEGA's Streets of Rage series and using sprites from SNK Playmore's King of
Fighters series. The game spread only by word of mouth, but it nonetheless
amassed popularity very quickly. Senile Team soon released an edit pack allowing
anyone interested to create a mod for the BOR engine.

In 2005, Kirby2000 asked Senile Team to open the source code to BOR. They
agreed, and OpenBOR was born. Development on the engine was continued by the
community, and still is to this day.


Available Platforms
----------------------
OpenBOR has a very modular and portable design inherited from Beats of Rage. Ports
to the following platforms are currently supported:

* Windows
* Linux
* Mac OS X
* Wii
* PSP
* Dreamcast
* GP2X
* GP2X Wiz
* Dingoo a320

In addition to the above, the original Beats of Rage engine (downloadable from
the Senile Team website) is available for the following platforms:

* DOS
* Playstation 2
* Xbox
* GP32
* Palmtop

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Howard Stringer, Sony Corp CEO, spoke to shareholders about recent hacker attacks on the company in a meeting in Tokyo.

"We believe that we first became the subject of attack because we tried to protect our IP (intellectual property), our content, in this case video games," the CEO explained.

"These are our corporate assets, and there are those that don't want us to protect them, they want everything to be free."

According to Reuters, during the meeting there was a call from a shareholder for the CEO to step down, but Stringer made no direct comment on the suggestion.

Sony is currently facing a lawsuit over the attacks on PlayStation Network and the Sony Online Entertainment Network.

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