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Japan Gets The Blue PSP As Well

Sony Japan so are not done with the colour changes. Next up, following the new red PS2, is this "Metallic Blue" PSP. Which is new for Japan, not so new for the US, since it's the same colour North America's getting in the limited edition Madden 09 PSP pack. This one will be a limited edition as well, and will come in two bundles: a "value pack" (¥23,800/USD$228), which is the PSP, a 32MB card, AV cables and various bags/straps, and a "1 Seg" pack (¥29,800/USD$286), which is everything that comes in the value pack, but with the addition of the nifty 1 Seg TV tuner. Both will be out in Japan on July 17.

Pete_Approved5831d ago

Why buy a Blue PSP? I got the white one. Looks cooler!

mikeslemonade5831d ago

A psp of any color looks good. Sony sure did make an adaptable piece of hardware here. Both red and blue look slick.

GodsHand5831d ago

I have the Silver (circle button stoped working, my own fault), and just picked up the red one aswell. I say if they are willing to come out with colors for the PSP, let their customers pick what ever color they want for a price.

Dpa5831d ago

To be blunt, it looks hideous.

dragonJP5831d ago

...TV tuner!! Who do we American/European gamers have to sleep with/pay off/get assassinated to get our own TV tuner for PSP? Anyway, love the new red and blue God of War & Madden respectively PSP special editions. Sticking with my silver Daxter pack, though. And I'll keep on dreaming about that TV tuner....

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Why Is No One Making AAA Horror Games Anymore?

Saif from eXputer inquires, "Despite the everlasting popularity of the genre, why hasn't there been a good AAA horror game in a while now?"

Jin_Sakai1d 7h ago

Because the gaming industry is obsessed with live service games.

Rynxie18h ago

Because he touches himself at night to characters like lady Dimitrescu.

Crows9015h ago

You're the one still thinking about her

Rynxie15h ago

@crow

Did I give away your secret? It's okay, if you sit on your hand and numb it, you can pretend it's her playing with your little stick.

MaximusPrime_1d 7h ago

Good for me, I have no interests in horror games

-Foxtrot22h ago

Even when they do it's first person trying to copy Outlast, Five Nights, P.T etc

I think the Dead Space / RE2 / RE4 Remake and the Evil Within 2 showed you can have a good story based, third person survival horror game.

jeromeface19h ago

remakes is another good reason

thesoftware73018h ago

Calisto Protocol was also fun with fantastic presentation.

FinalFantasyFanatic11h ago

I feel like we haven't had much in the way of horror games for years, I think it became rare after the PS2/PS3 gen. Maybe i'll pick up that Crow Country that recently came out, that looks good.

Venoxn4g9h ago

Crow Country needs some more love.. and more exposure

Redemption-6420h ago

Because outside of a fee games, most don't sell that well

Crows9015h ago

So in other words...AAA publishers don't have creativity or passion for games.

CrimsonWing6920h ago

Didn’t we have Dead Space Remake and Resident Evil 4 Remake last year?

thorstein20h ago(Edited 20h ago)

Among others

And isn't Dying Light 2 a horror game?

Scissorman19h ago

And Alan Wake 2 and Alone in the Dark.

on_line_forever3h ago

I like Alone in the dark but it's not AAA game

richardmmorales11h ago

We also had The Quarry and The Dark Pictures The Devil In Me.

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N64: Recompiled — Creating Native PC Ports Is A Godsend For Game Preservation

"In a time when companies don't care about preserving games, I have high respect for the creators of projects like N64: Recompiled." - Hanzala from eXputer.

gold_drake2d ago

it is, i might be finally able to play Snowboard kids 1 full screen ha.

purple1012d ago

il beat you to the ski-lift,

framerate on snowboard kids was shocking, do you remember./?

talking of shocking framerate and kart racers style games,
Sony had a gem on ps3, with 'Modnation Racers' but again, framerate was so terrible, still fun though, indeed, when is drifting sideways not fun, the answer is never. we have not seen enough of that game, technically some people made race tracks/games in dreams and little big planet etc, but its just not the same,!!! grrrrr

morning rant over.

here, relive some ,memories. https://www.youtube.com/wat...

itBourne1d 22h ago

The load time on ModNation where also excruciatingly long... But man oh man I wish that game took off more, so much fun! Could turn off garbage rubber banding, I had karts with 100's of stickers to design some crazy cool stuff, custom tracks. Fantastic undeappreciated game

gold_drake1d 18h ago

SK1 had a fairly good framerate. sk2 maybe not so much ha

Redgrave1d 18h ago

Some food for thought:

Would you donate your physical copy of a really rare/expensive cartridge (Conkers's BFD, Bomberman 64 Second Attack, Ogre Battle 64, the two Castlevania titles, etc) to those managing this project for the greater good of getting them preserved online for all to experience at some point?

UltimateOwnage1d 18h ago

As long as it meant they never took money from Patreon and invited a DMCA takedown / lawsuit by Nintendo to take it all away. After seeing the whole debacle with Yuzu I now question how long any of these teams can maintain game preservation efforts through emulator development, or otherwise.

franwex1d 15h ago

I mean. They may borrow them…

Profchaos1d 12h ago

Is it realistically needed though I would not personally give anyone my old carts for games that are already persevered and easily available online

Inverno1d 18h ago

The snippet of ray tracing at the end of the og trailer was low-key amazing. I found out thanks to Nerrel who also made a texture pack for MM, and i can't wait to see how much more great this game will be in the near future. With model swaps, ray tracing, retextures, and a more quicker process than decompilation, it's gonna bring new life to N64 games.

Profchaos1d 12h ago

There might need to be a bit of clarification recompilation is not the same as decompilation.

This is basically a container to excite the rom within but allows for all sorts of beat additions and tricks like new lighting effects such as ray tracing to be added.

But decompilation would ultimately be king as it allows for a widespread porting capabilities and uses the assets from games to build a native install for PC or whatever the target system is e.g Mario 64 for PC or sonic mania for psvita / wii

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