GameSpot

Logitech prepping PSP Go UMD add-on?

Source: UK gaming site CVG. What we heard: Sony introduced its latest PSP iteration, the $250 PSP Go, during the first week of October, and one of its primary draws is its slim form. The handheld is ...
PC World

New Sony PSP Go! Loses UMD, Expected in June

Many rumors have circulated around Sony’s next iteration of its handheld gaming device, the PSP. First, it was to lose its UMD drive; then get a cosmetic overhaul; then a Christmas release date ...
SlashGear

PlayStation Store On PSP Now, Death To UMD! Shouts Heard Round The World

UMD really was one of the dumbest formats ever created, and especially for Sony. But it looks like you might not ever have to worry about it again now that you can just buy and download PSP games and ...
The Verge

PS Vita will use UMD Passport app to provide discounted downloads of UMD games you own

Sony has just revealed its solution to the thorny issue of backwards compatibility between its two generations of PlayStation Portable console, the UMD-equipped PSP and the memory card- and ...
Macworld

Study: PSP UMD outlook ‘bleak’

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 ...
GamesIndustry

Sony announces UMD movie/game hybrid for PSP

To encourage more consumers to purchase movies on the company's PSP specific Universal Media Disc (UMD) format, Sony has announced the forthcoming release of the first hybrid UMD containing a full ...
GamesIndustry

Spectre of piracy looms on PSP as UMD format is cracked

The first illegal copies of PlayStation Portable games have been uploaded to the internet by pirate group Paradox, but despite this worrying development, no means exists as yet to actually play the ...
siliconera

Rumor: UMD-less PSP Coming This Fall

The never ending rumors of a disc-less PSP continue to spark with 1up reporting on a device called the PSP Go!. The new system is said to have a 8 or 16GB of flash memory and a slideable screen. Since ...
Time

Bummer: Sony Confirms PSP UMD Discs Won’t Transfer to Vita

Bad news for PlayStation Portable gamers hoping to lug their UMD (disc-based) games over to Sony’s imminent PlayStation Vita — it’ll (probably) never happen. That’s the word from the mount (aka Sony), ...
Hexus

New UMD-less PSP reveal at E3?

Each year E3 is the place for the world's top gaming companies to make their big announcements and rumours are already gathering pace that Sony may reveal a new piece of hardware. According to ...
GameSpot

Sony plans PSP phone, will open up UMD

TOKYO--Sony has big plans for the PSP and its proprietary format, the Universal Media Disc (UMD). That was the message Sony Computer Entertainment president and CEO Ken Kutaragi was trying to convey ...