Sony hints at PlayStation phone

Sony Computer Entertainment America's senior marketing VP, Peter Dille, in an interview, dropped strong hints of the upcoming PlayStation Phone (PSP) and was already setting it up as a competitor to the iPhone, says Electronista.

He saw the PSP as being hindered by being Wi-Fi only and its having to be a secondary device. Modern users want "always-connected devices," Dille told CNN, and lose many of the PSP's role as a media centre when away, like movie rentals and Web browsing.

"I don't think we fully realise that vision with a Wi-Fi device," Dille explained. "If it's not connected [to cellular] then it does sort of limit people."

The Alabama Bureau of Investigation seized more than 70 electronic gaming machines at three locations in Walker County, but no arrests were made, writes Montgomery Advertiser.

Martha Earnhardt, a spokeswoman for the Alabama Department of Public Safety, said the simultaneous raids were conducted amid an investigation. Earnhardt said cash and one gun were also confiscated in the raids, conducted in Jasper and Cordova.

ABI agents were assisted by state troopers and deputies from Walker County. Sheriff John Mark Tirey said his office had passed along information it received in recent weeks about illegal gam-bling.

A recent report by Futuresource Consulting projects that the mobile games market could be worth almost $10 billion by 2014, reports Game Daily.

The report makes delineation between what it calls 'traditional' mobile games, downloaded from mobile operator stores, and app games sold through the Apple App Store or the Android Market.

In 2010, the Apple App Store is forecasted to bring in $1.7 billion in games revenue, excluding the iPad. That accounts for 30% of the mobile gaming market, with traditional games accounting for 60% and other app stores like the Android Market fighting for the last 10%.