PSP HOMEPAGE

The PSP Remaster project, first announced in May and discussed in detail at a developer event in Tokyo last month, allows game makers to take PSP titles and emulate them on the PlayStation 3. They’re free to add HD-level graphics, surround-sound, 3D visual support, save-game transferring between the PS3 and PSP, and even completely new […]

A selection of the most interesting games due to hit Japan next week, courtesy the review pages of Famitsu magazine:

- Kirby Mass Attack (9/9/9/9, 36 points): The highest-scoring game of the week is the new DS Kirby game, which is perhaps less surprising than it’d seem at first glance. “The touch-based controls are simple, easy […]

The NBA arguably has more marketable stars than any other major sport in the United States, and yet 2K Sports has decided to not use any of them to promote this year’s NBA 2K game. 2K11 was centered around former Chicago Bulls guard Michael Jordan and included a great deal of in-game content devoted to […]

Final Fantasy Type-0 has been given a release date. Just a few weeks after we found out it’s at about the 80% complete mark, Square Enix has announced the game will be available in Japan on October 13.

As it’s a particularly large game for PSP, it’ll require two UMDs. That’s not the only detail that […]

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Why the Golden Age of JRPGs is Over
We explore the reasons that Xenoblade and dozens of other games will never be released in America.
By: Ryan Winterhalter
July 18, 2011

It’s over. It no longer makes economic sense to bring most Japanese titles over to the west — particularly RPGs. Sure, the Konamis and the Capcoms of […]