Well kind of, if you happen to be catching the public transport system in Japan, you'll now be able to download one minute snippet of news when you're travelling on the Tsukuba Express train line, you'll have access to 8, count 'em - 8, channels of news and entertainment for your Nintendo...

The Japanese are still going crazy for handhelds from both Nintendo and Sony with the PSP, surprisingly, continuing to outsell the DS. We thought once the fever died from the whole Monster Hunter Portable frenzy, the DS would continue to climb back up the charts but so far this hasn't happened. The...

For those of you out there who can't get enough of Professor Layton and can't wait til the sequels start coming out, you can settle your puzzle solving fix with the news that the Prof. will be hitting mobile phones. Wait, maybe I should have said that once again, those lucky Japanese with their...

In yet another reason why I want to live in Japan and so help me at the very least I will get over there one year, at the local McDonald's between May 27 and June 31, when you buy a shrimp burger (I kid you not!), you'll also be able to download the nutritional information onto your Nintendo...

If you want to hit the streets looking like you own the streets then you'd be hard pressed to go past the following DS units pimped out as only the Japanese can do it. How much bling can you handle before you go blind, yo?

The PSP absolutely reigned for the month of April in Japan with sales nearly doubling the DS. Figures for the PSP equate to 380,000 units while the DS came in with 170,000, that's a ratio of 2 to 1 in the PSP's favour according to Japanese magazine publisher, Enterbrain. Having said all that...

For what seems to be a reoccurring theme in Japan lately, the Sony PSP has beaten out all other competitors in sales charts in Japan for the past week. It managed to sell 85,000 units which is a drop in sales on past weeks but still nearly doubles that of the Nintendo DS, its nearest rival, on 47,000...

Just when you thought the Nintendo DS had done all it could do, news has come out of Japan that the humble little portable has surpassed the 100 million units of software sold since going on sale. The amazing accomplishment was achieved in only 3 years and 5 months which, as a comparison, it took the...

More wacky news from Japan, a surver recently was conducted to determine what percentage of males and females used Sony's PSP and Nintendo's DS as their portable hardware of choice. Interesting results below with the pie graph. It appears that most men used the PSP while the ladies prefer the...

Reported lately in this fine publication was the news that the PSP was doing great business in Japan due to Monster Hunter being released bunping up sales. Well, the Blu-ray behemoth, the PS3 has now finally passed the 2 million mark in Japan making it another good week for Sony. The PSP managed to sell...