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Sony Computer Entertainment America's Eric Lempel says UMD conversion is something the company will 'continue to look at'.
The University of Maryland's Startup Shell incubator is a conspicuous experiment in student-run startup incubation. Founded in 2012, the incubator has grown to include several dozen startups in ...
Since founding, the University of Maryland’s Startup Shell — the on-campus, student-run incubator — has admitted only those working on launching a company. To join, you had to have more than just an ...
PSP Go has no love for the UMD. The £224 ($249) PSP Go lacks the UMD drive from previous versions, relying solely on digital downloads to purchase games.
The new, UMD-less PSP Go is an absolute dream for Sony. Since it lacks a way to play games purchased at retail, Sony gets to set the prices for every piece of content bought on the system. Who ...
The only issue with no UMD on the next PSP would only occur if there wasn't any kind of UMD slot on the system. For even if the PSP2 didn't manufacture new games on a UMD, Sony has a heritage in ...
The Playstation Portable 2, rumored to have dual analog sticks, a bigger screen and touch controls, will also rival the Xbox 360 in processing power and ditch the UMD format, sources tell Kotaku.
Especially when the PSP might actually able to leverage some of its powerful gaming hardware to create interactive sequences of video content (SCEA had a demo of a PSP bonus game on UMD Video at ...
Before there was The Matrix, cyberpunk was brought to screen by Mamoru Oshii, a visionary Japanese director in the form of Ghost in the Shell. The animated film was an adaptation of a manga by an ...
At last, Sony's other worst-kept secret, the UMD-less PSP Go, is working its way through retail channels this week. The device itself is a marked improvement, but of course that's not the whole ...
When Sony announced the PSP Go at E3 this year, John Koller, Sony’s hardware marketing director, said that a “ good will program ” to convert UMDs would be announced soon. There was speculation that ...