Hardware

Local developers Firemint and Sidhe Interactive are listed as just two of the 80 publishers and games developers listed so far that have been given the go ahead to develop for Sony's recently announced PSP2, the codenamed "NGP" for Next Generation Portable. Sidhe are hoping to announce some titles for the next-generation PlayStation Portable, which Sony has described "is as powerful as the PlayStation 3", within the upcoming months.

The 360 has been retailing in Australia for over two years now, and Screenplay thought it a good time to catch up with Xbox Product Marketing Manager Jeremy Hinton on a wide range of topics. The interview covers, the successes, such as Xbox Live, as well as the failures, such as the Red Ring and HD-DVD, of the 360 so far, as well as the retail pricing of games in Australia, television and movie downloads and briefly touching upon our R18+ (or lack of) classification issue.

Found this over at AustralianIT. Hmmm.. April the 1st was 4 months ago!"MICROSOFT has announced plans to place a security chip into every new PC to protect computers from hacking, snooping and unwelcome spam, while also providing the music and motion picture industries with security against piracy and copyright breaches."