Photograph: Rick Rizner After the former COO of game developer Acclaim David Perry Twittered about the new PSP2 and its lack of a UMD drive, the Internet started paying attention to Sony’s ...

A new report from market research firm The NPD Group concludes that the outlook for movies and other entertainment on Universal Media Disc (UMD) — the tiny optical disk used by Sony’s PlayStation ...

New incentives may lie ahead for developers working on PSP Minis. The sub-100MB-sized games may soon end up on store shelves as packaged UMD games, according to Sony. The most successful Minis titles ...

Nadat de PSP Go was aangekondigd gingen er al vrij snel geruchten rond dat de UMD’s vervangen zouden kunnen worden door downloads voor de PSP Go. De UMD’s, ook wel de mini-cd waar de spellen voor de ...

When Sony unveiled its Next Generation Portable (NGP) last week, it said that downloadable titles for the PSP could be re-downloaded on the new handheld. As for games on the UMD format, the company ...

During last week's massive 2009 Electronic Entertainment Expo data dump, several revelations that would have made front-page news during a normal week slipped through the cracks--revelations like the ...

Last night I threw in the towel, unboxed my original PSP slim-3000-lite-whatever-it’s-called, and fired up the UMD version of Final Fantasy Tactics. The game’s not available through the PlayStation ...

Sony tested the waters of purely digital distribution for PSP titles with the now-released Patapon 2, but some third-party PSP developers are much more upfront about the advantages of offering titles ...

Update: Will Europe share North America's fate? Sony Europe won't yet say. "We've not made any announcement about the program in the UK and Europe as yet," a Sony spokesperson told Eurogamer. "We'll ...