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Old Time Podcasters, The Playstation Show, and the evolving Vita Voices.

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Back in 2006 I started another podcast, The Playstation Show, which would be a short weekly podcast on the Sony Playstation Portable. It slowed down a bit in 2011, but never really went away. With the PS Vita on the way, I decided in January that it needed to be brought “up to the boil” for the year (and in the process helping me keep abreast of the portable gaming world – all the more important as it becomes an interesting battleground in the smartphone world). The show got a little bit of a rethink, moving away from a news-bulletin

How long until one company owns every bit of mainstream music?

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Music publisher BMG are ready to bid for music publisher EMI. Music publisher Warner are likely to pitch in as well, while music publisher Sony and music publisher Universal won’t sit on the dock of the bay either. Apart from the fact that this would keep Competition Lawyers and Regulators lots of work to do, it worries me that so much musical power is being concentrated in fewer and fewer companies. That’s fertile ground for a cartel to operate in. And not just in music sales, but in contracts with young and upcoming bands, leverage on digital providers such as

Could Sony build the console while Microsoft build the software?

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It’s all rumour, conjecture, and fanboy thinking, but there’s a certain logic to Sony and Microsoft pairing up for console gaming. Kotaku brings together some ideas, links and speculates: You could even look at that as another reason why Microsoft would be willing to cede the Xbox hardware business: Sony’s latest hardware experiments, like their tablets, run Google’s Android. It might be worth a few billion here and there to Microsoft to bring Sony more fully back into the fold. (See also: Nokia.) This is likely to be #qtwtain ("questions to which the answer is no") but with rising development

Sometimes you can give a Playstation too much protection

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The thing about Sony being hacked because, in their words, "[they] tried to protect its intellectual property" is that their protection methods were draconian, allowed no homebrew code to run on their machine, banned out-of-region sellers from selling games (famously closing down Lik Sang, thus depriving me of an official supplier of Japanese games such as the Densha De Go series for my European PSP), forced firmware updates, don’t allow you to transfer a UMD disc based game into a digital download… …or they’ve not confirmed a Monster Hunter Portable version for the PSP Vita. You choose.

The PSP Show #123: Jungle Party

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The PSP Show #123: Jungle Party (MP3 7.6 mb 8 minutes 14 seconds) [display_podcast] [audio:http://psp.thepodcastnetwork.com/audio/tpn_psp_20101209_123.mp3] MP3 File – Show Notes – RSS Feed – iTunes Link Playstation 2 fans know it as Buzz Junior, but now it hits the PSP as Jungle Party. But is the gameplay going to survive in the gaming world of the Playstation Portable?To be honest, no, but listen in to the show to find out why. Make sure you never miss a show by subscribing to the show and listen in Apple’s iTunes – you can leave your own review there as well. And don’t