latin america
Head to Mexico for a camouflage PSP-3000
For shame Sony! Why does Mexico get the camouflage PSP, but not the United States? We’re all in North America and playing favorites is wrong.
In Japan, Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker was released in a bundle that included a camouflage PSP-300. Pretty nifty. So, of course, residents of North America were a tad hurt when they learned that the Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker bundle that would be released here would include an evergreen PSP-3000 instead. But we accepted it, reasoned that the really cool PSPs don’t always get released overseas and decided evergreen really isn’t that bad a color for a PSP after all.
But now Sony has announced via the Mexican PlayStation Blog that Latin America is getting a Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker bundle with the camouflage PSP-3000…
The Zeebo gaming console launching 2009 in Brazil
Is there enough room for another gaming console? Some consumers are already confused enough with the current hardware we have plus the economy may not be in the best shape to take a risk on another video game system. That’s exactly why the latest game console, called the Zeebo, won’t be released in the United States (at least for now).
Tectoy’s main focus is releasing the Zeebo first in Brazil and later in Mexico and other parts of Latin America.
The Zeebo has some pretty basic technical statistics. A lot of power isn’t very necessary to run some of the older games the system will play. It has 1 GB of internal Flash memory, 168MB RAM, 3 USB ports and a SD card reader. It displays games in a 4:3 aspect ratio at 640×480 resolution.
The Zeebo will make games available wirelessly over a…
Game pirates raided in Mexico
The game pirates of Mexico (and we don’t mean Johnny Depp’s next flick) are going through especially turbulent times. After a rain on a dozen sellers, Mexican officials seized 15,000 counterfiet Nintendo products from a notorious contraband market in Guadalajara. Out of the counterfeits that the officials seized, approximately 4500 were pirated Wii games.
This is not the first instance of counterfeit Nintendo products being seized in Mexico – Guadalajara in particular. In an earlier raid on this game pirate haven, approximately 56,000 pirated Nintendo products were apprehended from 23 shops. Last month (July 2007) a shipment of …















