[update: Replaced cam footage with direct-feed version of the trailer]
Here’s an NGP video that you can watch in up to 720p from Sony’s press conference held recently to announce their new portable system coming out this holiday season. This is the best way available right now to see some of the graphical capabilities of the NGP. We’ll let you know when screenshots start to be released. Enjoy.
-Miyamoto
Sony had their conference launch conference for their upcoming handheld that will battle Nintendo’s 3DS in the dead of the North American night last night, so here are the details on both the PSP2 (now officially known under its working name “Next Generation Portable”/NGP) and a new service called “Playstation Suite”:
The NGP:
Find out all about the NGP’s specs, features, and announced games after the jump…
It’s been almost a decade since the widespread adoption of widescreen-format monitors and TVs. The original theme that Game Usagi was built around in 2007 was still catering to the dying crowd of standard definition monitor owners. Lately this has led to most people viewing Game Usagi having 1/3 of their screen filled with content and the rest with an endless sea of grey. Now friends, feast your eyes upon an extra 100 pixels of horizontal goodness and a top banner that is only 2/3 of its recent very large size. Trimmed down and expanded where it matters, Game Usagi is now a sleeker beast ready to give you images that aren’t squished on the front page and more page options in the navigation bar at the bottom of the site. Enjoy.
-Miyamoto
The movies Summer Wars (from Mamoru Hosoda) and Evangelion 2.0 (from Gainax, pictured above) were both recently added to our Anime Movie Guide. So go ahead, check them out and see what you’ve been missing in the wonderful world of anime.
[update: added links to videos from the conferences and Europe details]
Well, Nintendo had their launch conferences in the US and Europe today and here is the new info that we received from them:
Developer: Chair Entertainment
Publisher: Epic Games
Genre: Action RPG
Players: 1
Price: $5.99
Hours Played: 10
Progress: Defeated the god-king and completed 8 bloodlines
We all love having that game that totally shows off the graphical prowess of your system, the one that epitomizes what next-gen gaming is all about. It is rare however to associate any such games with a platform like the iPhone, but Apple’s ubiquitous phone is no longer a fledgling gaming device and no stronger example exists than Epic Games’ new title Infinity Blade. Read on to find out why…
Developer: MEDL Mobile, Inc. with Craig Orsini
App Type: Digital Photography Portfolio Maker/Presenter
Price: $14.99
Version: 1.2
Time Used: 2 months
With 58000 apps available on the iPad app store alone, there is a lot of chaff to wade through to get to the wheaty goodness of really good apps. If an app doesn’t become one of the top few for total number of downloads, it can often fade into obscurity regardless of its quality or utility. We recently got our hands on a copy of the digital photography portfolio suite MediaPad Pro for the iPad. Does MediaPad Pro rise above the usual app fodder into the realm of actual utility? Read more to find out.
