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Media Shake Up: EGM Closes Doors

Kris Erickson • January 7 2009 • 0 comments

Venerable magazine Electronic Gaming Monthly will finally shutter its doors after more than two decades of publication. The closure comes as part of a complex merger deal between...Read more

Gundam Senjou no Kizuna coming to PSP?

Kris Erickson • January 6 2009 • 0 comments

Back in 2006, Namco Bandai's Mobile Suit Gundam: Bonds of the Battlefield was the hottest thing to arrive in Japanese arcades. The pod-like game featured a fully immersive...Read more

Developer Says PSP Offers "Huge Opportunity"

Kris Erickson • January 5 2009 • 0 comments

Slitherine Software is a tiny development studio from Britain, but the owner of the company told gaming journalists recently that the PSP is actually the most profitable platform...Read more

Hackers Cause a Run on GripShift

Kris Erickson • January 4 2009 • 0 comments

Gamestop employees were probably feeling perplexed all around the country this weekend as would-be hackers descended on their stores looking for copies of an old PSP game called...Read more

Is PSP Piracy Increasing?

Kris Erickson • January 3 2009 • 0 comments

The Sony PSP has had its fair share of ups and downs, which is expected for the first generation of any given console. If the device has an...Read more

PETA is Back with More Political Gaming

Kris Erickson • December 27 2008 • 0 comments

Animal rights lobby group PETA has turned to video games to get its message out to an increasingly wired public. The People for Ethical Treatment of Animals is...Read more

Dissidia is Top Selling Game in Japan

Kris Erickson • December 27 2008 • 0 comments

It wasn't even close in Japan last week, as one game trounced all others for the top spot in the Media Create weekly sales charts. Final Fantasy: Dissidia...Read more

Loco Roco 2 Coming in February 2009

Kris Erickson • December 25 2008 • 0 comments

This December has been pretty rough for PSP owners in North America. Without a single hit game release in sight, many have left their PSP units to gather...Read more

Chinatown Wars Maker Says DS GTA "Bigger"

Kris Erickson • December 23 2008 • 0 comments

The Grand Theft Auto games on PSP were incredible in their detail and scope, but Rockstar says that the upcoming DS game will be even bigger. Grand Theft...Read more

PixelJunk Monsters Planned for PSP

Kris Erickson • December 23 2008 • 0 comments

Do you like Tower Defense? You know, that uber-addictive desktop flash game where you must build a fortress to survive wave after wave of marauding insect? Well, PixelJunk...Read more

Disgaea 2 Could be Coming to PSP

Kris Erickson • December 22 2008 • 0 comments

Japanese Magazine Gamewave is reporting that Disgaea 2 Portable is coming out in Japan soon. The game has a Japanese release date of March 26, 2009. So far,...Read more

PSP Loses Hardware Lead in Japan Thanks to DSi

Kris Erickson • December 22 2008 • 0 comments

For most of 2008, the PSP sold more units on a weekly basis than the Nintendo DS in Japan. Of course, the rest of the world is a...Read more

Hammerin' Hero Announced for North America

Kris Erickson • December 18 2008 • 0 comments

Japanese publisher Atlus today revealed an English-language localization of its cult platformer, Ikuze! Gen-San. The 2-D sidescroller will be renamed Hammerin’ Hero in the United States, as a...Read more

Konami Announces Metal Gear on iPhone

Kris Erickson • December 17 2008 • 0 comments

Japanese publisher Konami today announced that it will be bringing four of its "major franchises" to Apple’s innovative iPhone and iPod touch devices. The four games in development...Read more

PSP 4000 Unlikely

Kris Erickson • December 17 2008 • 2 comments

There has been a lot of baseless rumor and speculation going around over the past week about the possibility of yet another revision to the core PSP hardware....Read more