PSP News

Namco Bandai Games weren't content with just announcing Solarobo this week -- the company also unveiled plans to release Tales of Phantasia X, a pair of remakes put together on a single disc. It's set to hit the PSP sometime later this year in Japan; no US release has been ...

The Monster Hunter Freedom series (called Monster Hunter Portable in Japan) is one of the few international "killer apps" that the PSP can lay claim to without sounding desperate. Every game in the lineup has shifted at least a million copies in Japan, with the most recent one -- 2008's ...

Sony Computer Entertainment America has announced that Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker -- the PSP Metal Gear game that Hideo Kojima says easily could have been called Metal Gear Solid 5 -- will be released in North America on June 8, and it's coming alongside a limited edition PSP Entertainment ...

There are few things that an entertainment device can be called that are worse than "useless." Codemasters vice president Gavin Cheshire wanted to make sure that he properly emphasized his disdain for Sony's handheld in a recent interview, calling the system a "useless waste of space," going on to also ...

Sony announced the release date today for ModNation Racers: May 25. If you're wondering whether that goes for the PlayStation 3 or PlayStation Portable version, the answer is "both." As previously reported, the title is set to launch on both platforms, simultaneously, and with similar feature sets. The title is ...

If The Lord of Elemental wasn't enough "strategy RPG prequel coming out May 27 in Japan" excitement for you, your prayers have been answered -- also hitting PSP shelves that day is Blaze Union, a brand new Sting-developed tactical RPG that, story-wise, is a prequel to GBA and PSP hit ...

Sega announced this week that Hatsune Miku: Project Diva 2nd, a new music game starring the popular line of Vocaloid characters, is currently under development. It's due to come out for the PSP July 29 in Japan for 6090 yen; no US release has been announced.Like the previous Project Diva, ...

Some of the highlights from next week's crop of Japanese console game releases, courtesy of Famitsu magazine's review pages:- Yuusha no Kuseni Namaikida 3D (8/9/8/8, 33 points): The new game in the recently-renamed What Did I Do do Deserve This, My Lord?! series is a pretty standard update. "The additional ...

Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker is instituting a few intriguing new ideas for the MGS series, and according to recent tweets from Hideo Kojima (yes, Hideo Kojima is tweeting now), they may be the precursors to what could eventually be another new Metal Gear Solid game on a different platform."It's ...

Dead or Alive: Paradise is not softcore pornography or degrading to women, director Yoshinori Ueda says, responding to criticism of the upcoming PSP game. Instead, it's all about "beautiful women.""From our perspective, we're trying to make beautiful women, that has been the focus - we want our characters to be ...