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

Following up on earlier rumors of Pandemic Studios' closure, Kotaku reports that an internal Electronic Arts memo has confirmed the studio's fate.

Rumor has it that Electronic Arts will be adding more people to its list of cut employees. The target? Pandemic Studios.

Can't wait to import Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep this January? You might want to set aside a little extra money and get this new PSP bundle instead.

So, what transpired this week on the PSP blog? Well, Sony seems to be sending feelers out for new PSP Go colors, Nate Drake and others are getting the Pinball treatment, riskbreaking's finally making its way to the PSN, and Adhoc Party has been confirmed for a US release. Oh, and you can now get a PSP Go for cheap if you happen to have a PlayStation Credit Card. All that and more in the PSP Weekend Warrior.

It was a week full of bittersweetness -- for those who have PSP Gos at least. Team Typhoon, the fellas behind ChickHEN, blew a lot of minds by showing proof of homebrew running on the PSP Go. The bad news is they have no plans of releasing their HEN. There's still hope, though. Homebrew dev Freeplay is still hard at work on developing an eLoader for the download-only handheld.

Assassin’s Creed II is quickly shaping up to be one of the year's blockbuster releases. We're just days away from launch, but for those of you who still hunger for more info on the game, here's a video interview with lead game designer Patrick Plourde.

A five-song AFI track pack is coming to Rock Band 's in-game music store next week along with one from '80s all-female band The Bangles. Handheld rockers are also getting two new tracks; one each from Dead Kennedys and Sleater-Kinney.

Adhoc multiplayer mode won't be the bane of PSP owners who want the global reach of infrastructure mode anymore. If they have PS3s, that is. Sony has finally announced that Adhoc Party is coming to North America.