PSP Firmware 4.00 coming soon: includes Google Search, change video playback speed

We don't have a specific date for it yet, but according to Eric Lempel, Director of PlayStation Network Operations, the PSP's official firmware 4.00 update "will be released soon." How soon? We can only hope.

What can we expect from FW 4.00? According to Lempel, the upgrade will have a new Google Internet Search feature, accessible straight from the XMB. It uses Google's algorithms so it will return the exact same results from www.google.com.

The feature returns a search history recall of 20 items. Of course, you'll need to be connected to the Internet via a wireless access point or Wi-Fi hotspot to make this feature work.

Another feature inlcuded in Firmware 4.00 is the ability to speed up or slow down the playback speed of videos stored on the unit's Memory Stick. All you need to do for this is to press up or down while playing the video.

Via : Playstation blog

Sony Computer Entertainment UK product manager: LocoRoco 2 out by this year

Claire Backhouse, product manager for Sony Computer Entertainment UK, recently gave out quite a number of details regarding their upcoming titles for the PlayStation Portable. She also let slip that LocoRoco 2 will be coming by this year.

In an interview with MCV, Backhouse said that "the key software titles we have coming out this year for PSP include Echochrome, Buzz The Master Quiz, Secret Agent Clank, and LocoRoco 2." Could this be the confirmation of the rumors that we have been hearing so much about?

Via: Q.J.