Friday 3 August 2007

Sony PSP SDK available discounted for UK universities

An interesting piece of news for all of us currently studying/working/researching at UK universities in the mobile device field; Sony Europe has made it known that it will be releasing the PSP software development kit to academic institutions at a "vastly reduced rate" (no details on that one yet). SCEE announced the new, non-commercial scheme, via the appointed Academic Liaison at the Games:Education day of the Developer gaming Conference, held in Brighton.

The PSP SDK which has been offered to students/researchers will come with the same ProDG programming tools and debugging tools used by professionals in studios worldwide. Students/researchers will be able to get support online through a cloned version of the professional development website, which will have a dedicated forum to cater for all questions. It's been speculated that the launch partners will probably be the University of Abertay Dundee, Sheffield Hallam and Hull, all of which have their own computer games programming courses.

While ever-so-important pricing tag is not revealed yet, just a few days after this announcement, it is definitely worth keeping an eye on for further developments since the PSP, in combination with the recently launched GPS add-on can offer many new opportunities for innovative research concepts and ideas...

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