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NIS changes name of Holy Invasion of Privacy due to IP conflict

In an odd and surprising turn, NIS America has changed the name of its PlayStation Portable title Holy Invasion of Privacy, Badman to What Did I Do To Deserve This, My Lord?!. NIS says the name c...

Meet a zombie T-Rex in Age of Zombies

Halfbrick, the studio responsible for putting Mr. Destructoid in Raskulls, has announced a brand new shooter for the PSP Minis service. Age of Zombies is a time-traveling undead genocidal romp i...

LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars announced

Did you think that Traveler's Tales had done all it could do with the LEGO Star Wars franchise? If so, you have no idea how the videogame industry works, my friend. LEGO Star Wars III has just be...

echoshift: The time puzzle-solving brother of echochrome

Oh, echochrome. I bought you gleefully, lovingly attempted to solve your puzzles, and ended up finishing less than one-third of you. To this day, I haven't gone back; probably never will, either....

Yes, ModNation Racers is coming to the PSP

Sony has officially announced today that United Front Games will be bringing its PlayStation 3 "Play, Create, Share" racer, ModNation Racers, to the PlayStation Portable. The title appears to sp...

D3Publisher has some digital-only PSP discounts for you

What are you supposed to call downloadable games on the PlayStation Store that are for use on your PSP, but not your PlayStation 3? "PSN for PSP"? Bleh. I don't like it. At any rate, you hopefull...

ESRB apologizes for calling Dead or Alive Paradise creepy

This morning, we brought you word that the ESRB had rated Dead or Alive Paradise on the PSP and admonished it for being "creepy voyeurism." Since that story broke, the North American game ra...

No, Gladiator Begins is NOT a porn movie

[As posted on Japanator] I love Acquire. Creators of the Way of the Samurai games, they put the "quirky" into "quirky Japanese game." Part of being so quirky is their willingness to insert all ki...

Pretty in Pink: Jill Stuart 'Sweet Limited' PSP bundle

All the ladies! That's not to say that a pink PSP would be limited to only female owners. It's just that this new Jill Stuart Sweet Limited Package PSP bundle comes with a freakin' PSP-shaped pur...

ESRB: Dead or Alive Paradise is 'creepy voyeurism'

The ESRB says what we all are (or should be) thinking -- Tecmo's Dead or Alive Paradise features "creepy voyeurism." This from the rating of the upcoming PlayStation Portable title which the ESRB...

Knights in the Nightmare PSP screens are lovely

Not too long ago we told you that DS RPG game Knights in the Nightmare was coming to the PSP. Along with the bump up in screen size, we heard that a few new features, like a character database an...

Kojima: There is 'no greater crime' than a game delay

Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker was recently delayed, and Hideo Kojima is not a happy little elf. Apologizing to his fans, the eccentric director has claimed there is no greater crime than a delay...

Sega drops Vanquish hints, mentioned for PS3/PSP

Platinum Games' freshly-announced Vanquish has not yet been officially announced for any system, nor has a publisher been revealed. However, anybody with a brain could work out that there will be...

Sony is ever so happy about the iPad

Woooo! I thought by this weekend all the iPad stories would have shriveled up and died in a pile of exhausted Apple fanboyism and Apple hatred. Leave it to Sony to make a lowly weekend editors dr...

Disgaea Infinite coming to the PSP this May

Hey, doods! Disgaea Infinite has finally received an American release date! The adventure novel game will be hitting the PSP this May. The adventure novel type games are popular in Japan and this...

Console game in handheld: SOCOM: Fireteam Bravo 3

SOCOM is an interesting franchise. Back when the original released for  the PS2, SOCOM was seen as the multiplayer experience for consoles. Times have changed, and the SOCOM series has made ...

Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker delayed in Japan

Only a day after the teaser/web game site for Metal Gear Solid "Piece Walker" went live, the Japanese release of the game which it was created to pimp, Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker, has rec...

Harvest Moon: Hero of Leaf Valley hits this April

Natsume continues to release Harvest Moon games, the latest of which, Harvest Moon: Hero of Leaf Valley, is set to drop for the PSP this April at $29.99. So what is it? It's a Harvest Moon game. ...

Take a tour through baseball in this MLB 2K10 trailer

I guess this isn't technically gameplay footage of Major League Baseball 2K10, but it's the first time we've seen video of the game in action, so check it out! Sure, it's easy to make a game loo...

PSP version of Gravity Crash detailed and other goodies

Did we know there was a PlayStation Portable version of the download-only PS3 game Gravity Crash in the works? Well, we do now! No solid release date has been pinned down yet, but Just Add Water ...

New Dead or Alive Paradise trailer: Panty shot paradise

Wow. The message is clear on this one. This upcoming PSP title may have a lot of game play options, but you wouildn't know it from this trailer. Ass shots. Rear shots. Pulling bottoms out of...b...

Nippon Ichi's new dungeon RPG has a lot of replay value

[As posted on Japanator] Nippon Ichi claims that its new dungeon-crawling PSP RPG Zettai Hero Kaizou Keikaku (Ultimate Hero Modding Project), can be replayed approximately forty million times. Th...

All-white Sengoku Basara/Devil Kings Revoltechs available

Perhaps in anticipation of the (upcoming?) release of Samurai Basara: Samurai Heroes, for the PlayStation 3 and, oddly enough the Wii, or Battle Heroes, a PSP game in the same vein, Kaiyodo is pr...

There's Valkyria Chronicles in my Phantasy Star Portable?

As a sort of promotion for Valkyria Chronicles 2 coming out in Japan very soon [sad face], there's some new costumes for the  PSP game Phantasy Star Portable 2. Items and costumes based on ...

Portable Sexy: Dead or Alive Paradise trailer, US date

We knew PSP game Dead or Alive Paradise would be sexy, but the new Japanese trailer beats it into your head. Paradise should be sexy, right? It should have bikini girls playing in the pool or on...

PSP comes both first and last on sales chart, PSPgo fails

Further cementing the PSPgo's status as a hideous and terrible mistake, the latest Japanese sales data has revealed that while the PSP-3000 and its cousins have topped the charts, the all-digital...

PSN 10 for '10 half-off sale: Critter Crunch, Braid, more

Sony is celebrating a great 2009 by starting off 2010 right: as a “thank you” to all the folks who bought PS3s and PSPs for the holiday season, they’ve slashed the prices of 10 ...

Look!: the Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker PSP bundle

Yesterday, as the new issue of Weekly Famitsu hit Japanese news stands, details about two upcoming Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker PSP bundles began to leak out. Sony is selling a Metal Gear Solid...

Patchwork Heroes brings cute warships to your PSP

Patchwork Heroes, a new download-only game for PlayStation Portable, looks as adorable as it does confusing. The basic idea behind it makes perfect sense -- as a little dude, you climb up warship...

Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker PSP bundle details

Konami and Sony have teamed up to release a special Japanese Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker PSP bundle. According to this week's Famitsu, the bundle includes the game, a PSP-3000 decked out in a ...

Felix Hernandez and Kendry Morales face off in MLB 2K10

This is the third “Pitchers vs. Hitters” promotional video for 2K Sports’ Major League Baseball 2K10. It features Seattle Mariners starter Felix Hernandez and Los Angeles Angel...

Persona 3 Portable getting US release July 6th, 2010

Dale told me that I could only write this post if I began with the following message: "Baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby! Ooooooh, yeah. Baby, baby!" And there you go. Persona 3 Portable, ...

PSP Minis off to a rough start: Piracy, Marketing

Look, I like the PSP Minis idea. I like a lot of the games released so far. They recently announced PS3 compatibility. You'd think the format would have taken off already, but some studios are po...

Cuthbert: Don't complain about the cost of $10 games

In a quick-and-dirty Q&A session with Develop, Q-Games' Dylan Cuthbert voiced his concern with the often quite vocal Internet whining that takes place when the topic of download-only games po...

Metal Slug XX: New screens and character profiles

We told you earlier that Metal Slug XX is coming to the PSP by way of Atlus, who is going to release the game later next month for $19.99. If you'd like to see more of what your $20 buys you, her...

Shocker: Final Fantasy VIII tops PSN charts

As if you couldn't have guessed, the release of Final Fantasy VIII on the PSN's PSOne Classics channel has been met with enthusiasm by spend-happy gamers, rushing to the top of the PSN chart. The...

Knights in the Knightmare gets PSP port

A pretty game should be on a pretty screen. Larger screen means the player seems more detail. As much as I love my DS and even DSi, I feel myself wishing I could see some of the better looking on...

Ace Combat Joint Assault announced for PSP

Ace Combat comes to the PSP in Joint Assault, which has nothing with the breaking of kneecaps or anything. This is the airplane game. There's 40 licensed aircraft that you'll be able to fly over ...

Your daily dose of ACTION: A Metal Slug XX trailer

Don't you just love it when developers and publishers hold off on talking about their game until right before production comes to a close? It makes for a much more focused PR campaign, and the w...

Committing fraud leads to a dark place in Dante's Inferno

Remind me not to defraud anyone, ever, because even the slightest mendaciousness will land me straight in Malebolge, the Eighth Circle of Hell. Roughly translated from Italian, “Malebolge&...

Watch the Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep intro

The intro to Kingdom Hearts' big PSP debut, Birth By Sleep, is making the rounds, and we've uploaded the footage for your own viewing amusement. Featuring a remix of the game's rather splendid m...

Fireteam Bravo 3 slated to hit February 16th

Sony made good on their promise to give SOCOM: US Navy Fireteam Bravo 3 a new release date “in the coming weeks.” According to the latest information from the software and hardware gi...

2K Sports signs 7 ballplayers to help market MLB 2K10

If you caught the first “Pitchers vs. Hitters” vignette for 2K Sports’ Major League Baseball 2K10, you will already have seen some of the professional baseball players whom 2K ...

Everyone in Valkyria Chronicles cameos in the sequel

[As posted on Japanator] Practically everyone, at least. While earlier last year we found out that players could draw Valkyria Chronicles' lead characters Alicia Melchiott and Welkin Gunther out ...

Joe Mauer cover for MLB 10 The Show unveiled, out March 2

Sony has released the final box art for MLB 10 The Show, and it’s ... very blue. You can check out the full cover image, featuring AL MVP Joe Mauer, in the gallery below. While it’s n...

Atlus announces Hexyz Force for PSP

Does your PSP need another Japanese RPG? Then fear not, friends, because Atlus has you covered. A brand new RPG by the name of Hexyz Force has been announced today, and it looks as Japanese as O...

Over 50% of US PSP owners are girls!?

We all know that most PSP owners are completely dickless, but for the first time ever, it's true in a literal sense. A new study from Nielsen indicates that half of the PSP's audience is made up ...

Dissidia: Final Fantasy coming to PS3/Xbox 360?

Some new Intel has risen from the depths of Japan that seems to indicate a home console outing for Square Enix's giant fan service PSP game, Dissidia: Final Fantasy. A scan from a Japanese magazi...

God Eater demo downloads a million, might sell that many

Namco Bandai's awesomely-named Monster Hunter ripoff God Eater is looking to do quite well, if the demo numbers are anything to go by. Despite having gone live less than two months ago, the ten-m...

Atlus blows up your PSP with Metal Slug XX

We kind of already knew that Atlus was publishing SNK's Metal Slug XX from a ESRB leak. The classic military side-scrolling ball buster's latest version is coming to your PSP next month, on Febru...

Genitals ruin Christmas with help from PSP

Shon Goodman of Omaha, Nebraska thought he had his holiday shopping all worked out when he picked up the used PSP at a local store. Little did he know that the handheld contained a horrible secre...

Blood Bowl hits retail PC, Xbox 360 and PSP in 2010

Just when I was wondering what on Earth happened to Blood Bowl, here comes Southpeak to announce that the Warhammer-flavored football game is due for a retail release in January 2010. Previously ...

Halfbrick releases Blast Off soundtrack for free

As a thank you for the good word and as a sort of New Year's gift, Halfbrick is releasing the soundtrack to their newest PSP Mini (also playable on the PS3) game, Blast Off, for free. The spacey ...

Japan's top ten games of 2009

As videogame news becomes thinner on the ground, you can expect the slack to be made up for with lots and lots of reflective top ten lists. Here's one from Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu. It's ...

New Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep trailer has cameos

The next Kingdom Hearts game is right around the corner. This prequel, Birth by Sleep, hits the PSP in Japan in a matter of days, and there's a new trailer to come out of the Jump Festa event to...

Your PSP or DS could soon be banned on airplanes

Here's the scoop: Somebody tried to kill people on Christmas Day, so everybody else has to get punished for it. That's the thinking behind the US Transport Security Administration in any case, fo...

Top ten games that didn't make Game of the Year 2009

As you may have seen by now, Destructoid and a number of outer outlets have posted their games of the year. The usual suspects were all in attendance -- games like New Super Mario Bros. Wii, Mode...

Prinny 2's plot is about recovering Etna's lost panties

In Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero?, you got to play as Prinnies that had to get desserts for their lord and master, Etna. In Prinny 2: Dawn of the Great Pantsu War, you have to reclaim Etna's s...

Holy Invasion of Privacy, Badman! 2 demo hits today

Good news, fellow dungeon keepers! A demo for Holy Invasion of Privacy, Badman! 2: Time to Tighten up Security has been released today on PlayStation Network for PSP. Furthermore, NIS America has...

Namco Bandai loves digital distribution now

Namco Bandai wants us all to know that it's serious about being involved with digital distribution. In fact, VP of online development Robert Stevenson says it's "essential" to the company's strat...

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