Sony has lofty goals for this fiscal year. Banking on the recent success of the PS3 Slim and the round of PS3 price cuts, Sony executive vice president Kaz Hirai has revealed that they plan to hit 13 million PS3s sold worldwide in FY09. They also expect the PlayStation Network to pull in revenues roughly thrice the profits they made last year. More after the jump.

PSP homebrew developer Pspflashsystem has released a new plugin called TimeBatteryPercent on the QJ.NET PSP Development forums. This plugin displays the percentage of available battery on the PSP XMB. It also adds a year value to the date.


Download: TimeBatteryPercent v1.0
Visit: QJ.NET PSP Development forum

Kristin Neirinckx, PSP's Marketing Manager, provided a walkthrough for the adhocParty system for the PSP over at the PS Blog. If you want to see how this feature works, then it's best for you to check the video out after the jump.

Exactly a week after SCEJ teased their new 100 game, we now have the official trailer for the 2-D title. The said downloadable title gives the kawaii feel of Katamari Damacy, albeit minus the  undeniable undertones of crazy.

A lot of eyes were on Sony at the Media Investor Conference quite recently, where the company revealed their plans of world domination increasing profit in 2010. The interwebs got an unpleasant jolt of "WTF?!" yesterday when they spotted a line that read "new revenue stream from subscription" under PSN in the Sony presentation. SCE head Kaz Hirai quickly moves to soothe the angry mob, saying that the current PlayStation Network services will remain free.

You asked, they listened. Dynasty Warriors fans have long been filling Koei suggestion boxes with tweaks and features to improve the beat-'em-up, so Koei steps up to plate with yet another addition to the franchise. Dynasty Warriors Strikeforce, available for the PSP and recently dated for the PS3 and Xbox 360, is getting a sequel.

Sony's giving out a big firmware double-whammy to celebrate the PS3's third birthday. With Firmware 3.10 coming out for the PS3 today, Sony's following it up with the release of FW 6.20 for the PSP tomorrow in Japan.

*UPDATE* The firmware is now live in all regions. Full changelog after the break.

The JPCSP Team has once again updated their ever-popular PlayStation Portable emulator for PC. The latest compiled build of JPCSP s offers some more performance improvements and additional bug fixes.


Download: JPCSP v0.3 revision 1253

Are you ready for the next battle? Namco Bandai has today announced that Tekken 6 has officially gone gold for the PSP and is now currently in manufacturing ready for the November 24 launch date across North America.

The Super Nintendo Entertainment System emulator for the PSP based on s9xTYLmecm has received another round of update. The latest version of s9xTYLmecm is mostly a bug fix release.


Download: s9xTYLmecm 091117