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Phantasy Star Portable

Kotaku has reported that Phantasy Star Portable will be coming to North America in March of next year.

Phantasy Star Portable has proven to be very popular in Japan, selling 600,000 copies. Much has been said about its similarity with the very popular Monster Hunter series, so it will be interesting to see if it sells anywhere near as many copies when its made available outside of Japan.

PSP-3000 (PS Brite) Adverts in Japan

Here are a couple of PSP adverts that are going to be used in Japan to advertise the new PSP-3000 or(PSP Brite).

The Black PSP-3000 -

And this is the White PSP-3000 –

PSP Firmware 5.0 Now Available

If you check out the Network Update on your (standard) Sony PSP, you should see that the new Firmware 5.0 is now available for download. Those of you using a custom firmware, obviosuly you won’t wwant to try upgrading to this latest official PSP firmware.

The changes for this major firmware release includes the following -

  • Direct Playstation Store access
  • Sleep Timer for putting the PSP in a soft-shutdown state
  • Full screen keyboard for texxt entry (yipee)
  • Redesign XMB background