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Jak & Daxter: The Lost Frontier (Jak & Daxter: The Lost Frontier)

Nov 2, 2009

While Lombax-loving gamers have already received a second retail release starring Sony's other dynamic duo, fans of the eco-hunting hero and his ottsel sidekick haven't received a game since 2004's Jak III. Oh sure, there was Jak: Combat Racing in 2005 (doesn't count) and the Jak-less PSP exclusive Daxter (nope, doesn't count, either) the following year. ...

Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker (Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker)

Oct 22, 2009

As world-dominating franchises go, the Metal Gear series has had a strange relationship with PSP. First there was the non-canonical AC!D series, which replaced the series’ hallmark stealth action with turn-based card strategy. When fans cried foul, Metal Gear’s unrepentant, idiosyncratic creator Hideo Kojima ‘rewarded’ them with a sequel. ...

Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron (Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron)

Oct 16, 2009

Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron sports all the features we wanted to see in a new Battlefront game. For the first time, you can battle on land, hop in a ship and strafe ground units from the air, and blast into orbit to dogfight and assault your enemy’s capital ship, all on the same map. We recently got to sample multiplayer with 16 other players, and the transitions between ground, air, and space combat work great. ...

TGS 09: Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker (Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker)

Sep 24, 2009

Konami had a blowout today at the Tokyo Game Show, hosting a stage show that highlighted Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker’s story and characters. Game director Hideo Kojima also talked at great length with two of the game’s voice actresses.

Featuring a two volume script that is “as large as Metal Gear Solid 4’s” according to Kojima, Peace Walker is a full-blown MGS game, despite its portable platform. ...

GTA IV: The Ballad Of Gay Tony - What GR editors thought (Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories)

Sep 16, 2009

Last week, Rockstar visited our UK and US offices to show us the latest instalment of GTA IV's Xbox 360 exclusive DLC - The Ballad Of Gay Tony. ...

Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines - first look (Assassin's Creed Bloodlines)

Sep 14, 2009

The Assassin’s Creed franchise is one that really couldn’t have existed without some pretty advanced technology. The original Assassin’s Creed has always carried the trappings of a “next-gen” title - making your way through a dynamically responsive and detailed open world, outsmarting intelligent guards with free-flowing parkour moves, and handling a diverse set of stealth and combat techniques took some serious hardware muscle ...

Why GTA: Chinatown Wars is bigger, better and bloodier on PSP (Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars)

Sep 4, 2009

The biggest crime about the DS's amazing felony ‘em up wasn’t the random car-jackings, cop killing or drug dealing; it was the fact it didn't sell as well as it deserved. But justice could yet be served with the release of the PSP version of Chinatown Wars next month. But can you really improve on a portable classic we recently awarded a perfect 10? Well, thanks to some revised controls and a sexy graphical spruce-up ...

Beaterator - first look (Beaterator)

Sep 3, 2009

The first thing you should know about Beaterator is that it isn’t a game. It isn’t a “toy” like Wii Music, either, although it can be used like one. Instead, Beaterator is a serious tool for making music – or at least as serious as a tool can get while still staying accessible and relatively easy to use. ...

Smackdown vs Raw 2010 – hands-on (WWE SmackDown vs Raw 2010)

Aug 27, 2009

As we sat down to see Smackdown vs Raw 2010 for the first time in L.A. during Summerslam weekend, we were skeptical. This had been the longest we could remember going without seeing a given year’s Smackdown before its release, which will be on Oct. 20. ...

All the dirt on DiRT 2 (Dirt 2)

Aug 7, 2009

Rally car racing is a sport in transition. Like mixed martial arts, it’s spent the last several years carving out a slice of mindshare from sports fans eager for new spectacles. Rally has long been popular in Europe and Asia, and now has growing mainstream acceptance in America thanks to the late Colin McRae’s efforts to hitch the sport to the X Games. ...

Soulcalibur: Broken Destiny – hands-on (Soulcalibur: Broken Destiny)

Jul 27, 2009

Okay, it’s pretty. It’s very, very pretty. Soulcalibur: Broken Destiny is so good-looking that we can’t even say, “It looks good for a portable game.” The game looks good for a Dreamcast game, it looks good for a PS2 game – heck, we’ve seen plenty of Wii games that look cheap by comparison. ...

The Lord of the Rings: Aragorn's Quest - hands on (The Lord of the Rings: Aragorn's Quest)

Jul 20, 2009

Your memory isn’t what it once was after you pass the age of, ooh, 17. We can’t even remember what we had for breakfast this morning (or, for that matter, what ‘breakfast’ actually is) let alone stuff that happened years ago. So please forgive an elderly Samwise Gamgee if the way he re-tells the story of King Aragorn to his children is a bit, ahem, ‘factually challenged’. ...

Half-Minute Hero - hands-on (Half-Minute Hero)

Jul 14, 2009

Any RPG fan will tell you it can take between from 30 to 60 hours of hardcore level-grinding, adventuring, and monster battling to beat an average game. If that seems way too long, you’ll greatly appreciate Half-Minute Hero’s warp-speed take on the classic RPG. It boils down the typical trappings of the genre into their primordial elements and douses the whole thing with rocket fuel. ...

Holy Invasion of Privacy, Badman! What Did I Do to Deserve This? - hands-on (Holy Invasion of Privacy, Badman! What Did I Do To Deserve This?)

Jun 9, 2009

Not one to shy away from publishing games with a quirky premise and an equally absurd presentation, NIS America is championing yet another deliciously peculiar PSP title that tips the strangeness scale on its end. If you thought the publisher’s recent Disgaea spinoff, Prinny: Can I Really Be The Hero?, was a mouthful, prepare to get bowled over by Holy Invasion of Privacy, Badman! What Did I Do To Deserve This? ...

Monster Hunter Freedom Unite – hands-on (Monster Hunter Freedom Unite)

Apr 29, 2009

Ever heard of Monster Hunter? If not, we can at least rule out the possibility of living in Japan. The RPG series is the biggest thing on PSP across the Pacific, and it’s easy to see why: it essentially brings the MMO experience to a handheld, which is a difficult but clever feat to pull off. ...

Can Tekken 6 outclass all other fighters? (Tekken 6)

Apr 29, 2009

Namco Bandai Day 2009. At this prestigious event in San Francisco where the beer flowed like wine, the ‘Radar crew got to see games Namco has cooking for the summer/fall seasons. One of the heavily featured games, Tekken 6, is the first multiplatform Tekken game and the first for this generation of systems (Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection for PSN doesn’t count). ...

Soulcalibur: Broken Destiny REVEALED (Soulcalibur: Broken Destiny)

Apr 29, 2009

Where did this come from?! At yesterday’s Namco Bandai Gamer’s Day, we were rushed into a secret room for the unveiling of a brand new entry in the Soulcalibur universe. We know what you’re thinking. It’s not a spin-off or something equally dreadful. ...

Rock Band Unplugged – hands-on (Rock Band Unplugged)

Apr 15, 2009

There’s been some discussion as to whether Rock Band can “work” on the PSP. Without diving into too much history and boring you with the details of which developer did what, we can quickly tell you “yes, it can,” because Harmonix has already proved this gameplay concept works. See: Frequency and Amplitude, the dev’s pre-Guitar Hero gems. ...

Pangya: Fantasy Golf - hands-on (Pangya: Fantasy Golf)

Apr 14, 2009

Serious golf has its place in the gaming world, but plenty of gamers would just as soon embrace the lighter, more fantastical side of it. And there have been many great but simple golf games over years, such as Mario Golf and Hot Shots. Following in their footsteps and with a few more tricks in its bag of clubs, is Pangya: Fantasy Golf for the PSP. ...

Unbound Saga (Unbound Saga)

Apr 9, 2009

PSP owners still waiting out the portable's game drought may want to take a peek at Vogster's promising side-scrolling brawler Unbound Saga. The arcadey beat-'em up not only gives gamers a good reason to blow that thick layer of dust off their PSP's pretty screen, but it also recalls the quarter-munching appeal of Double Dragon. Switching on the fly between two ass-whuppin' protagonists, players are treated to a richly realized 3D comic book-inspired world ...