.!. At their Gamescom press conference today Sony announced a new digital reader for the PSP, and that Marvel Comics will be available for it. Marvel’s Vice President of digital global marketing, Ira Rubenstein, took the stage to make the announcement and said that “hundreds” of comics will be available for the PSP. The digital [...]

What we heard: Ever since the Sony/Nintendo/Microsoft console war began in earnest in 2001, the Big Three have been fanatical about information control. Even the series of “leaks” leading up to the Xbox 360′s unveiling in 2005 turned out to be a too-clever-by-half alternate reality game. El Greco full Little wonder then, with the official [...]

What we heard: Speaking with GameSpot in May 2008, Ready at Dawn cofounder and creative director Ru Weerasuriya expressed a measure of doubt over whether his studio would return to the PSP. The news came as some disappoint to game-starved PSP owners, considering the independent developer’s success in 2006 with Daxter and 2008 with God [...]

.!. You hear the big chord and the brass fanfare, and you know what’s coming. It’s easy to get excited when you hear the rousing Star Wars theme, though the franchise has hardly been known for exceeding expectations in recent years. If you’re interested in Star Wars: The Force Unleashed for its story and theme, [...]

Yggdra Union is an unabashed port of a two-year-old Game Boy Advance game. Its move to the PSP doesn’t herald an overhaul of the rudimentary battlefield display nor does it spice up the skirmishes with graphical flashes. With a strict reliance on strategic battles over fancy visual flourishes, it has nothing to hide behind when [...]