PSP HOMEPAGE

Ryoei Mikage is the founder and president of Tokyo-based RPG developer Imageepoch, having left Namco’s Tales Studios in 2004 to establish the outfit — and today’s game announcements, along with the company announcing plans to become its own publisher, are definitely something of a new epoch for the outfit.

“It’s very exciting for us to have […]

Rounding out the day’s new-game announcements from Japanese RPG developer Imageepoch is Black Rock Shooter: The Game, a PSP action title set in the post-apocalyptic future. It’s directed by Kazuya Niinou (the main guy behind the Etrian Odyssey series) and written by Kazushige Nojima, whose last US-released title was Nintendo’s Glory of Heracles for the […]

The second game Japanese developer Imageepoch announced at their “JRPG.JP” press conference today is called Saigo no Yakusoku no Monogatari (Tale of the Final Promise). Produced by ex-Atlus guy Yosuke Uda, the PSP-exclusive title is due out in Japan April 28 for 6279 yen.

Final Promise, on the surface anyway, seems like a pretty standard JRPG. […]

Feature

The Fine Foods of Beat-Em-Ups
An artistic tribute to the pavement-based delicacies in our favorite retro action games.
By Ray Barnholt

Videogames get enough crap for being excessively violent, but today’s games aren’t as bad as they used to be. Back then, the average walk-and-punch beat-em-ups would also encourage our nation’s youth to eat food off the ground, […]

Just in time for Thanksgiving, Sony has released a new PSP firmware update, version 6.35 for those of you scoring at home. If that home happens to be in North America or Europe, this update will add a Qriocity logo to your XMB.
Sony hasn’t yet revealed when the company’s new “Music Unlimited” service will go […]