While the PSP hasn’t been able to keep up with the Nintendo DS in terms of sales, it still has an install base that you can’t ignore. Unfortunately, the PSP shares the same flaw as all other mobile gadgets: a battery life that’s just never long enough.

If you’ve found that your battery just isn’t up to snuff, you can throw down $45 and get yourself a 2200 mAh battery that will give you double the playtime of the standard battery, and comes with a pair of plastic covers.

The unfortunate thing is that the batteries won’t hit store shelves until mid-December. By that time most people have finished up most of their holiday shopping, so don’t bother putting it on your list this year.

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Remember those small issues with Assassin’s Creed on the PS3 that I told you about the other day? You know, the ones that made the game almost unplayable for some people. Well those of you experiencing this issue may finally get to enjoy the game, bug-free.

An Ubisoft UK Community Manager has confirmed that they are indeed working on a game update that should improve the stability of the game. When is it coming? “As soon as possible.”

There’s nothing quite as reassuring as a patch that’s coming “ASAP.” I’m sure there are plenty of reasons why they can’t give us even a vague time frame, so lets just be happy that they’re working on it.

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I’ve been hearing about the rumored PlayStation Phone for longer than I care to remember. No one’s really been able to get a straight answer from Sony. Their responses have been dodgy at best. However, the Economic Times has managed to coax the closest thing to a real response out of them that I’ve heard yet. Apparently Jim Ryan, the Sony Computer Entertainment co-chief operating officer was quoted as saying the following.

“The PlayStation is a proven success and so is Sony Ericsson. Convergence with the two arms working together is definitely plausible,” he said. “What has been done is finding a match between a camera and a mobile phone, and that has been done wherein the mobile phone features are not reasonably inhibited and the camera is also a reasonably competitive product. It is hugely intellectually seductive to have a console-oriented phone.”

It’s one of those things that I think we’ve all seen coming, though I can’t say that I’m really excited about it. Sony Ericsson phones haven’t really been anything to write home about, and I wouldn’t say that the PSP has exactly been a the hit Sony wanted it to be. Then you look at the only other phone/game console combo, which is the Nokia N-gage, and it failed miserably. Could a PlayStation phone do any better? I wouldn’t hold my breath.

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