Source - Akihabara News

The PSP News from Akihabara News are officially included in Sony's RSS directory in the Media Manager 1.0 software since January 31st, thanks to a close collaboration with Sony Connect (Thanks A.D!).

For those of you who do not know what the PSP Media Manager 1.0 is, it's a software from Sony that allows you to manage your PSP and lets you transfer pictures, music and video feeds, but you can also manage your games and backups on your MS... so it's a must-have/use if you have a SPP. In the Feeds-section, you can manage content especially created for the PSP, just like our Akiba PSP News!

So how does it work? Very simple, once a PSP News is available on Akiba, it's automatically availble on the feed in your PSP Media Connect and the software automatically downloads the zip file of PSP news, extracts it and installs it onto your PSP... it could not be easier!

Only the English feed are available by default under "Cool Feeds" - "Magazines". To add the French feed, you just need to paste this link into the software:

http://www.akihabaranews.com/fr/index.php?page=pspnews

Also noteworthy is that you can be alerted automatically when a new PSP News is available by using the same feeds in a different RSS software.

Here's the link for the English feed:
http://www.akihabaranews.com/en/index.php?page=pspnews

And the link to the French feed:
http://www.akihabaranews.com/fr/index.php?page=pspnews

To download Sony's PSP Connect software, click here!

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Source - Akihabara News

The PSP News from Akihabara News are officially included in Sony's RSS directory in the Media Manager 1.0 software since January 31st, thanks to a close collaboration with Sony Connect (Thanks A.D!).

For those of you who do not know what the PSP Media Manager 1.0 is, it's a software from Sony that allows you to manage your PSP and lets you transfer pictures, music and video feeds, but you can also manage your games and backups on your MS... so it's a must-have/use if you have a SPP. In the Feeds-section, you can manage content especially created for the PSP, just like our Akiba PSP News!

So how does it work? Very simple, once a PSP News is available on Akiba, it's automatically availble on the feed in your PSP Media Connect and the software automatically downloads the zip file of PSP news, extracts it and installs it onto your PSP... it could not be easier!

Only the English feed are available by default under "Cool Feeds" - "Magazines". To add the French feed, you just need to paste this link into the software:

http://www.akihabaranews.com/fr/index.php?page=pspnews

Also noteworthy is that you can be alerted automatically when a new PSP News is available by using the same feeds in a different RSS software.

Here's the link for the English feed:
http://www.akihabaranews.com/en/index.php?page=pspnews

And the link to the French feed:
http://www.akihabaranews.com/fr/index.php?page=pspnews

To download Sony's PSP Connect software, click here!

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Gran Turismo 4 Online Edition is due out in Q2 2006 and will include six-player online play along with worldwide server rankings and replay upload options.

That's been leaked to us as part of a bundle of marketing documentation, which Sony has yet to comment on.

GT4 Online Edition will include 700 real cars (from classic to ultra-modern supercars), 50 real tracks, and split-screen options in addition to six-player online racing.

There'll also be voice communication support to chat with other drivers and customisable online competitions.

The docs also point to what's described as a huge single-player challenge, despite the game's obvious multiplayer leanings, with B-Spec and Photo modes making it over intact from GT4.

We'd expect to hear more about GT4 Online Edition in the very near future. ...

Source Eurogamer

Sony's upcoming PSP version of Killzone is due out in November on both sides of the Atlantic, and features co-operative and online multiplayer options, according to a bundle of leaked Sony marketing documentation that the publisher has yet to comment on.

The third-person tactical shooter was confirmed by Sony recently (there's also a PS3 instalment in development, as you know!) and the documentation we've seen sheds more light on its content and positioning.

Due out on November 3rd in both the USA and PAL regions, it's set two months after the conclusion of Killzone, and sees players take control of Jan Templar again on a covert rescue mission to save hostages from new bad guy General Metrac, who uses captured VIPs as bargaining chips. Which isn't very nice.

The backdrop of the game is a new Helghast strategy - following the liberation of Vektar City - to capture southern island bases and use VIPs as leverage.

Beyond the single-player game, we're told to expect challenge modes, co-operative play, and multiplayer options through both ad hoc and infrastructure modes - so online play is a potential option.

What's more, the documentation points to "Gameshare" - i.e. the option to play using one UMD to some extent - as well as downloadable mission packs to follow up on the game's November release.

Expect to see Killzone: Liberation strutting its stuff at E3 this May. ...

Source Eurogamer

Sony's upcoming PSP version of Killzone is due out in November on both sides of the Atlantic, and features co-operative and online multiplayer options, according to a bundle of leaked Sony marketing documentation that the publisher has yet to comment on.

The third-person tactical shooter was confirmed by Sony recently (there's also a PS3 instalment in development, as you know!) and the documentation we've seen sheds more light on its content and positioning.

Due out on November 3rd in both the USA and PAL regions, it's set two months after the conclusion of Killzone, and sees players take control of Jan Templar again on a covert rescue mission to save hostages from new bad guy General Metrac, who uses captured VIPs as bargaining chips. Which isn't very nice.

The backdrop of the game is a new Helghast strategy - following the liberation of Vektar City - to capture southern island bases and use VIPs as leverage.

Beyond the single-player game, we're told to expect challenge modes, co-operative play, and multiplayer options through both ad hoc and infrastructure modes - so online play is a potential option.

What's more, the documentation points to "Gameshare" - i.e. the option to play using one UMD to some extent - as well as downloadable mission packs to follow up on the game's November release.

Expect to see Killzone: Liberation strutting its stuff at E3 this May. ...

Source Eurogamer

Sony's upcoming PSP version of Killzone is due out in November on both sides of the Atlantic, and features co-operative and online multiplayer options, according to a bundle of leaked Sony marketing documentation that the publisher has yet to comment on.

The third-person tactical shooter was confirmed by Sony recently (there's also a PS3 instalment in development, as you know!) and the documentation we've seen sheds more light on its content and positioning.

Due out on November 3rd in both the USA and PAL regions, it's set two months after the conclusion of Killzone, and sees players take control of Jan Templar again on a covert rescue mission to save hostages from new bad guy General Metrac, who uses captured VIPs as bargaining chips. Which isn't very nice.

The backdrop of the game is a new Helghast strategy - following the liberation of Vektar City - to capture southern island bases and use VIPs as leverage.

Beyond the single-player game, we're told to expect challenge modes, co-operative play, and multiplayer options through both ad hoc and infrastructure modes - so online play is a potential option.

What's more, the documentation points to "Gameshare" - i.e. the option to play using one UMD to some extent - as well as downloadable mission packs to follow up on the game's November release.

Expect to see Killzone: Liberation strutting its stuff at E3 this May. ...

Well, seeing as the Nintendo news and rumours we’ve been hearing about this week have mostly been fairly negative (i.e. Zelda slips again), we thought we’d give you a few positive ones mixed in with some hardcore, old-fashioned facts to add a little more sweetness to an otherwise drab and grey Wednesday.

Respected Wired magazine contributor and author of a number of good books on gaming, Chris Kohler, reminded us yesterday not to be too dismayed by the news that Zelda: Twilight Princess has slipped back to the end of the year.

As he sagely advises: “Get over it. Remember when it was normal for Nintendo games to be delayed a year? You couldn't wake up in the morning without finding out that a Nintendo game just got pushed back twelve months. Let's not fret.”

Wise words mate. But what are we to do in the meantime? The PS3 might come out in Spring 2007 if we are lucky. The Xbox 360 sits in the corner of the lounge gathering dust, awaiting something to justify the excessive amount of money we’ve all gone and spent on the goddamn buzzy brick. The DS in our bag is already looking like an old toy we are now even more than slightly embarrassed about pulling out on public transport. And the Revolution, it seems, will not be (high-def) televised. It’s all doom and gloom innit?

Well, no. Clearly. And as Mr Kohler reminded us, cheering us up no end: “let's just enjoy the fact that New Super Mario Bros. for Nintendo DS just got an official release date, and it's soon: May 7... Many people have pointed out that May 7 is a Sunday, but nearly every other Nintendo title is always released on a Tuesday. What gives? Can't help but notice that Sunday is the preferred day for hardware launches, and May 7 -- just before E3 -- might be an opportune time to have the DS Lite take its bow.”

Of course! It all makes sense! If we’ve all finally got our mitts on a DS Lite and New Super Mario Bros the week before E3, then what else is anybody going to be talking about at the show but this? Add that it also makes more sense, in light of breaking news regarding Nintendo’s plans to have up to a million DS Lites produced for the Japanese launch next month and recent comments from Nintendo UK execs regarding the European launch being ‘way earlier than August’. ...

Well, seeing as the Nintendo news and rumours we’ve been hearing about this week have mostly been fairly negative (i.e. Zelda slips again), we thought we’d give you a few positive ones mixed in with some hardcore, old-fashioned facts to add a little more sweetness to an otherwise drab and grey Wednesday.

Respected Wired magazine contributor and author of a number of good books on gaming, Chris Kohler, reminded us yesterday not to be too dismayed by the news that Zelda: Twilight Princess has slipped back to the end of the year.

As he sagely advises: “Get over it. Remember when it was normal for Nintendo games to be delayed a year? You couldn't wake up in the morning without finding out that a Nintendo game just got pushed back twelve months. Let's not fret.”

Wise words mate. But what are we to do in the meantime? The PS3 might come out in Spring 2007 if we are lucky. The Xbox 360 sits in the corner of the lounge gathering dust, awaiting something to justify the excessive amount of money we’ve all gone and spent on the goddamn buzzy brick. The DS in our bag is already looking like an old toy we are now even more than slightly embarrassed about pulling out on public transport. And the Revolution, it seems, will not be (high-def) televised. It’s all doom and gloom innit?

Well, no. Clearly. And as Mr Kohler reminded us, cheering us up no end: “let's just enjoy the fact that New Super Mario Bros. for Nintendo DS just got an official release date, and it's soon: May 7... Many people have pointed out that May 7 is a Sunday, but nearly every other Nintendo title is always released on a Tuesday. What gives? Can't help but notice that Sunday is the preferred day for hardware launches, and May 7 -- just before E3 -- might be an opportune time to have the DS Lite take its bow.”

Of course! It all makes sense! If we’ve all finally got our mitts on a DS Lite and New Super Mario Bros the week before E3, then what else is anybody going to be talking about at the show but this? Add that it also makes more sense, in light of breaking news regarding Nintendo’s plans to have up to a million DS Lites produced for the Japanese launch next month and recent comments from Nintendo UK execs regarding the European launch being ‘way earlier than August’. ...

Well, seeing as the Nintendo news and rumours we’ve been hearing about this week have mostly been fairly negative (i.e. Zelda slips again), we thought we’d give you a few positive ones mixed in with some hardcore, old-fashioned facts to add a little more sweetness to an otherwise drab and grey Wednesday.

Respected Wired magazine contributor and author of a number of good books on gaming, Chris Kohler, reminded us yesterday not to be too dismayed by the news that Zelda: Twilight Princess has slipped back to the end of the year.

As he sagely advises: “Get over it. Remember when it was normal for Nintendo games to be delayed a year? You couldn't wake up in the morning without finding out that a Nintendo game just got pushed back twelve months. Let's not fret.”

Wise words mate. But what are we to do in the meantime? The PS3 might come out in Spring 2007 if we are lucky. The Xbox 360 sits in the corner of the lounge gathering dust, awaiting something to justify the excessive amount of money we’ve all gone and spent on the goddamn buzzy brick. The DS in our bag is already looking like an old toy we are now even more than slightly embarrassed about pulling out on public transport. And the Revolution, it seems, will not be (high-def) televised. It’s all doom and gloom innit?

Well, no. Clearly. And as Mr Kohler reminded us, cheering us up no end: “let's just enjoy the fact that New Super Mario Bros. for Nintendo DS just got an official release date, and it's soon: May 7... Many people have pointed out that May 7 is a Sunday, but nearly every other Nintendo title is always released on a Tuesday. What gives? Can't help but notice that Sunday is the preferred day for hardware launches, and May 7 -- just before E3 -- might be an opportune time to have the DS Lite take its bow.”

Of course! It all makes sense! If we’ve all finally got our mitts on a DS Lite and New Super Mario Bros the week before E3, then what else is anybody going to be talking about at the show but this? Add that it also makes more sense, in light of breaking news regarding Nintendo’s plans to have up to a million DS Lites produced for the Japanese launch next month and recent comments from Nintendo UK execs regarding the European launch being ‘way earlier than August’. ...