When our PSP pre-order went through on SCE official PSWorld site, we were surprised to see on the receipt that a PSP demo disc would be included with the package -- this was the first we had heard of ...

Sony Computer Entertainment has announced that the UMD disc format, used is the PSP console, has been approved as a standard format by Ecma International, an industry association specializing in the ...

If you believe all of the rumors, then Sony is gearing up to release a radical redesign of the PSP that removes the UMD disc drive and adds a sliding screen. Shacknews has a comprehensive round-up of ...

Bad news for PlayStation Portable gamers hoping to lug their UMD (disc-based) games over to Sony’s imminent PlayStation Vita — it’ll (probably) never happen. That’s the word from the mount (aka Sony), ...

The PSP's main media is the UMD, a 60mm disk that can contain up to 1.8GB of data on dual layers. At the current time, we've seen that the disk can hold games, movies, and music videos (which might ...

The new Playstation Portable won’t feature a UMD disc drive, according to Acclaim developer David Perry. “I hear Sony FINALLY has the PSP 2. And thank goodness, they’ve removed the stupid ...

TOKYO--Sony has big plans for the PSP and its proprietary format, the Universal Media Disc (UMD). That was the message Sony Computer Entertainment president and CEO Ken Kutaragi was trying to convey ...

Exactly a year after it was launched in the United States, the Sony PlayStation Portable's days as a handheld movie-viewing device might be numbered. Disappointing sales have slowed the flow of movies ...

Another step forward in the race to crack open the PSP: Paradox has worked out how to get a dump from a UMD disc, and has released the ISO files for several PSP games (Wipeout: Pure US, Ridge Racers ...

Update: Sony has just confirmed the story with a statement to Ars Technica. The statement reads: “We’re considering a digital only format for the Patapon 2 release as a one time test case as we ...

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