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GAMING / HANDHELD

More Colours For Nintendo DS
Nintendo will be adding two colours to its Nintendo DS line-up. These new coloured handhelds will be available starting June 19, 2008 and will be available for a limited time.


Overheating PSP Battery Burns Boy
The case of dodgy Sony batteries is heating up with a report out of the US that a 12-year-old boy was burnt by an overheating PlayStation Portable (PSP) battery.


Nokia To Go After Sony & Nintendo Gaming
Mobile phone company Nokia is set to take on both Sony and Nintendo in the portable handheld games market despite having stuffed up its first attempt at being a player in the fast growing market.


Nintendo Wii, DS Clean Up
GfK Australia has confirmed that Nintendo was the console winner in 2007, selling more than one million Nintendo DS units and over 300,000 Nintendo Wii units since launch, making the two consoles the fastest-selling to reach these goals in history.


Sony To Provide Skype For PSP Slim and Lite
Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. has announced that it would introduce Skype features to its PSP Slim and Lite handheld (PSP-2000 series) later this month.


New Nintendo DS Games Coming Soon
Aussies will soon have access to ‘Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker’ and ‘Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates’ to play on their Nintendo DS following their release on an undisclosed date early next year.


Sun Crossword For Nintendo DS
The UK’s most popular newspaper crossword, the Sun Crossword Challenge, is coming to the handheld Nintendo DS in November, however no plans have been aired to release the game in Australia which probably wouldn’t ‘get it’ anyway.


Sales Of New Sony PSP Booming
Sales of the new Sony PSP which got a 5 Star review with SmartHouse are booming. The unit is lighter, faster and has been redesigned.


What Wardrobe Should I Wear Today Sony?
As one of the leaders in the game-console industry, Sony has a reputation for putting hard-core gamers first. But in the coming months, the company will release new software created by Reina Araki, a former designer of packaging for Sony products who admits to being "terrible" at games.


New PSP Smaller, Lighter And Faster
Three years after the PlayStation Portable (PSP) was launched and garnered the attention of holiday-makers and travellers Australia-wide, the popular PSP is being re-launched in time for Christmas, 33 per cent smaller and lighter than its predecessor and with upgraded software that allows faster response times for more dynamic gaming.


PlayStation Portable Upgrade Announced
Sony Computer Entertainment is set to launch an upgraded version of the PlayStation Portable (PSP) which has a more streamlined form factor and a video-out port.


Nicole Kidman To Play Nintendo
Oscar winning actress Nicole Kidman is set to be the face of the new Nintendo More Brain Training ad campaign in Europe. No word yet on whether she will be playing Brain Training in the Aussie ad campaign though.


Blue Nintendo DS Unveiled
The old-school Nintendo DS Lite is kicking on with Nintendo launching the handheld console in ice blue.


New Video Camera, Games And Price For PSP
Hot on the heels of its PS3 firmware update, Sony has announced a price drop for the Playstation Portable (PSP) as well as a new video camera and Platinum game titles for the device.


Nokia To Take On Sony In Games Market
Nokia is set to move headlong into the games market with a product that has already been a big flop. The Nokia N-Game is set to be re engineered in an effort to take on the likes of Sony with their PSP and Microsoft with their mobile operating system.


New Media Manager For PSP
Sony has launched the Media Manager for PlayStation Portable (PSP) which it says will allow you to transfer videos, photos and other non-game content between your PSP and computer.


Sony PSP AD Gets Up The Nose Of Blacks
Black groups in the USA are up in arms over the latest Sony billboard advertisments for a white PSP.


Sony PSP’s Elegant Makeover
The fashion- and style-conscious need worry no longer about their Sony PSP clashing with their shoes, handbag or trousers, as Sony today announced that it will release a ‘Ceramic White’ PSP this Thursday.


Sony UMD Sales Plummetting
Six months after it was launched in Australia, the Sony PlayStation Portable's days as a hand-held movie-viewing device might be numbered.


Foxtel Goes Mobile
Foxtel is planning to launch a slate of new technology, including its own portable media player, named the iQ2go.


PS3 To Make 'Placeshifting' A Reality?
Imagine streaming TV from a PlayStation 3 over the Internet to a PSP. Sony’s LocationFree technology will make it happen…


Xbox 360 A Smash Hit
The folks at www.smashmyxbox.com took donations to buy an Xbox 360, just to smash it to bits with a sledgehammer.


Fake PSP Hack Officially A Virus
The destructive PSP 'downgrade' that has been circulating on the net has now been labelled a trojan by security company Symantec.


NVIDIA Revolutionises Laptop Gaming
NVIDIA has released a mobile chipset today which has the potential to revolutionise the PC gaming industry, as it can produce graphics more powerful than many desktops.


Sony PSP Takes Off
Almost 40,000 Sony PSPs have been sold in Australia in the past 2 weeks. Launched late last month the PSP is set to be a "Must Have" this Xmas.


PSP Skyrockets In UK
It's estimated around 185,000 units of Sony's PSP console was sold in its launch week in the UK alone.


The Future of Entertainment
This year, there has only been one device we at SmartHouse have been champing at the bit to buy since we first laid hands on it. And there’s no prize if you guessed it’s the PlayStation Portable (PSP).


PSP: Will The iPod Killer Please Stand Up?
Forget the NW-HD5, the PSP is Sony’s true iPod killer, and at today’s Australian launch the company went all-out to prove the credentials of the PSP as a 'total entertainment' device.



 



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