Sony has confirmed details of the latest PSP firmware update and has made it available to download.

* While playing PSone games on your PSP, you can now customize how the buttons are assigned by going to [Controller Settings] > [Assign Buttons] and select [Custom].

* You can now quit Remote Play and choose to turn off your PS3 or leave it on after quitting. This is useful if you are performing a download and want to quit Remote Play, but still want your download to continue on the PS3. Select [Quit and Turn Off the PS3 System] or [Quit Without Turning Off the PS3 System] from [Quit Remote Play] when you press the HOME button on the PSP system.

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Wired’s Chris Kohler reports that the entirety of the game can be finished in under five hours. Just add 30 minutes of preview code gameplay into the time, and you have an inkling of how short the PSP God of War experience is.

Be warned! The following link contains a slight spoiler in the image.

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Famitsu have released the 2007’s best PSP games in their lates tissue.

If you check out the list below, the games were put in the list according to their respective review score. As for the top one, Minna no Golf Portable 2 reached a score of 37 out of 40.

1. Minna no Golf Portable 2
2. Yuusha no Kuse ni Namaikida
3. Ratchet & Clank Gekitotsu! Dodeka Ginga no MiriMiri Gundan
4. Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories
5. Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII
6. Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops+
7. Patapon
8. Monster Hunter Portable 2nd
9. Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu Portable 2
10. Chronicle of Dungeon Maker II
11. Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Destiny: Rengou vs. Z.A.F.T. Portable
12. Burnout Dominator
13. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories
14. Gunpey-R
15. Power Smash 3
16. Gundam Battle Chronicle
17. Lumines II
18. Wild Arms XF
19. R-Type Tactics
20. Simple 2500 Series Vol. 11: The Puzzle Quest: Agaria no Kishi
21. Anato Wo Yurusanai
22. Star Ocean First Departure
23. M.A.C.H.: Modified Air Combat Heroes
24. Medal of Honor Heroes
25. NBA Live 08
26. Silent Hill Zero

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The highly-anticipated God of War: Chains of Olympus for the Sony PlayStation Portable has just gone gold, with the announcement coming from none other than developer Ready at Dawn studios themselves.

heck out the website in full in the below link, The game’s release date is March 4.

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It appears as if Square Enix has given these old features a graphical facelift, and has added other new options to play around with to boot. For example, old favorites Claude Kenni and Rena Lanford get facial expressions depending on the current game events. As was the case with The First Departure, anime cut scenes have been included as well.

Check the site for yourself.

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Sony has just announced that they’ll be postponing the Japanese release of Skype for the PSP which was originally set for late January, due to some issues with Sony’s official microphones. It seems that the microphone’s components failed in meeting some of Skype’s necessary certifications.

Sony didn’t want to launch their latest service without official peripherals to accompany it. With this, they decided to put the release on hold for the time being. No official date has been set for the Japanese launch.

“Solutions to enable users to start using Skype features and services on their PSP are being sought for and will be announced in due course.”

For those of you who live in the US or Europe, consider yourselves to be lucky since the corresponding PSP Skype launch won’t be affected. Sony added that it “will make no difference to the European and USA launch, which will coincide with the end of January firmware upgrade.”

Source: [Playstation]

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Many game companies have already proved that you can’t make good games on mobile phones — in a few weeks, Sony will find out if the reverse is also true. With a late January software patch to the new PSP Slim, the Skype service will be accessible through the handheld.

Source: [Joystiq]

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A PC version of the PlayStation Store is now available for those of you without a PlayStation 3. This store actually includes exclusive content not available on the PS3 store, including full PSP games such as Wipeout Pure and Gangs of London.

Source: [PSP Fanboy]

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Well it turns out that when a game box says that it runs in 720p or 1080p it’s not entirely true.

Check out two of the biggest releases of the season for example:

COD4 (360) 1024×600p 2xAA
COD4 (PS3) 1024×600p 2xAA
Uncharted (PS3) 960×1080 in 1080p

Neither Call of Duty 4 or Uncharted run in the actual resolutions.

The reason most games do this is to allow for more visual effects to be rendered to the screen without slowing the game down. Most won’t ever notice or care but it’s kind of interesting to find out the actual resolutions that games render in. Here are some more recent ones along with a huge list of older releases from the pixel counter at Beyond3D.

Def Jam: Icon (PS3) 1152×648
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance (PS3) 1920×1080 FullHD
Transformers (PS3) 960×1080
Pirates of the Caribbean (PS3 720p): 960×720
Pirates of the Caribbean (PS3 1080p): 780×1080
Oblivion (360): 1024×600 (PS3 version is full 720p)
ICO (PS2): 512×224p (less than Tekken on PS1 at 512×240)
VF5 (PS3 720p): 1024×1024 (same as 360)
VF5 (PS3 1080p): 1024×768

Here are some older discoveries from the same thread:

Full Auto 2: 1920×1080 AA 4x, bad framerate - PS3
NBA Street: 1920×1080 AA 4x (30-60fps) - 360
LocoRoco Cocoreccho 1920×1080 MSAA 2x -PS3
Tony Hawk Project 8: 1040×584 AA - 360
Tony Hawk Project 8: 1280×720 - PS3
Virtua Tennis 3: 1920×1080 AA 2x - PS3, 360
XMB: 1920×1080p - PS3
Dashboard: 1280×720p - 360
Perfect Dark Zero: 1138×640p - 360
Halo 3: 1152×640p - 360
Call of Duty 3: 1120×630p 360
Ninja Gaiden Sigma: 1280×720p PS3
Project Gotham Racing 3: 1024×600 360
Tomb Raider: 1024×600 360
Ridge Racer 7:
NBA 07: 1920×1080 - PS3
NBA 08: 1920×1080 - PS3
Tony Hawk Proving Ground: 600p - PS3
Tony Hawk Proving Ground: 720p - 360
GRAW2: 720p - PS3
GRAW2: 720p AA 2x - 360
Super Rub a Dub: 1600×1080 - PS3
GTHD: 1440×1080 - PS3
Super Stardust HD: 1280×1080 - PS3
Skate: 1536×864 - PS3
Skate: 1280×720 AA - 360
Bioshock: 1280×720 - 360
Harry Potter: 1280×720 MSAA 2x PS3 ?
Pixel Junk Racers: 1920×1080 PS3
Heavenly Sword: 1280×720 AA 4x PS3
Blast Factor Demo: 1920×1080 PS3
The Darkness Demo: 1024×576 PS3

Source: [Beyond 3D]

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Coming Dec 13th.

Source: [Gamebrink] 

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