The Sony PlayStation Portable is the only handheld gaming device that uses an optical disc for storage, called the universal media device. You can back up the game or movie on a UMD you purchased in ...

Last night I threw in the towel, unboxed my original PSP slim-3000-lite-whatever-it’s-called, and fired up the UMD version of Final Fantasy Tactics. The game’s not available through the PlayStation ...

UMD Passport has been announced in time for the PlayStation Vita's Japanese launch. The service will allow PSP owners to download digital versions of their UMD games for a small fee, according to ...

Update: North American PSP owners will not be treated to the same three free PSP Go games offer as Europe, a Sony America spokesman has told GamesIndustry.biz. "We were evaluating a UMD conversion ...

Current PSP owners waiting to buy a PSP Go would feel a bit hard done-by since they won’t be able to play their current UMD games on it. Sony Computer Entertainment America have confirmed that there ...

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 ...

Photograph: Rick Rizner After the former COO of game developer Acclaim David Perry Twittered about the new PSP2 and its lack of a UMD drive, the Internet started paying attention to Sony’s ...