Okay, so North America’s limited edition Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker PSP pack doesn’t include an exclusive camo PSP, or a stand thingy, or a snakeskin-like carrying case. But it does include a “Spirited Green” PSP-3000, a color previously unavailable in America. It doesn’t include a PSP Go, so we’re guessing the “relaunch” hasn’t begun yet.
Launching alongside the standalone game on May 25, the pack includes said green PSP, a copy of the game on UMD, a 2GB Memory Stick Pro Duo, and vouchers for both an unidentified movie download (for US residents only) and exclusive in-game items in Peace Walker, for $199.99.
North America getting its own Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker PSP bundle originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Last week, Chiaki Kuriyama, best known in the West as Gogo Yubari in Kill Bill, released her first CD single “Ryusei no Namida”, the theme for Gundam Unicorn.
Based on a series of popular light novels, original video anime Gundam Unicorn debuted on Sony’s PlayStation Network on February 20 with the six-episode series getting a Blu-ray and DVD release later this month. RX-0 Unicorn Gundam has already begun making appearances in video games, starting as an unlockable mobile suit Gundam vs Gundam Next for the PSP and arcades.
Kuriyama, who sings under the moniker “CHiAKi KURiYAMA”, does a solid, if not surprising job for her first single. The song is very, well, Gundam-y, and her voice is a nice fit. It’s all so effortless!
Previously, it was rumored that Kuriyama would be appearing the film version of Tekken, a rumor she denied when I interviewed her for my upcoming book on Japanese schoolgirls.
YouTube – ???? CHiAKi KURiYAMA – ??????(1080p) [YouTube]
While Nintendo president Satoru Iwata expressed some rather public disappointment with the new Apple iPad yesterday, representatives from rival firm Sony couldn’t be happier.
“Apple’s entrance into the portable gaming space has been a net positive for Sony,” Sony’s John Koller, Director Hardware Marketing, told the Wall Street Journal. “When people want a deeper, richer console, they start playing on a PSP.”
If positive thinking really was a power, Sony would be moving mountains about now.
Sony: Apple iPad Not A Threat To Its Mobile Game Player [Wall Street Journal]
Today Sony Computer Entertainment America announced the domestic release of the game previously known as One Million Ton Bara Bara, now known as Patchwork Heroes, an original action puzzle game for the PlayStation Portable.
So what is Patchwork Heroes? A game about destroying massive sky ships, tearing them apart piece by piece, and, you know, saving the world. And it will come to PSPs in North America this spring via the PlayStation Network as a digital download.
The game comes from developer Acquire, responsible for the similarly interesting and quirky Holy Invasion of Privacy, Badman! series. We’ll obviously keep an eye on Patchwork Heroes to see if the PSP game will be worth the download.
Announcing Patchwork Heroes for PSP [PlayStation.blog]
Namco Bandai prepares Joint Assault for takeoff with 40 licensed aircraft, four-player cooperative campaign mode.
Namco Bandai first brought its Ace Combat series of arcade-style dogfighting games to the PSP in 2006, with Ace Combat X: Skies of Destruction (see video below). While that game was well received by critics, the PSP has been a no-fly zone for the franchise since then.
That’s set to change, as Namco Bandai Games America today announced Ace Combat Joint Assault would debut on the PSP later this year. As has become expected for the series, Joint Assault will feature dozens of fully licensed aircraft in single-player campaign and eight-player versus modes.
In addition to the staple features, Namco Bandai is also adding a new cooperative campaign mode that supports up to four players. Under what Namco has dubbed the “Joint Assault Mission System,” players will split into teams, with the two squads taking to the skies on different maps. However, the play sessions will be linked, such that completing an objective on one map will impact battle conditions for players on the other map.
For more on the series’ portable pedigree, check out GameSpot’s review of Ace Combat X: Skies of Destruction.
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Metal Slug: Double X — the upgraded, multiplayer-capable PSP remix of the Nintendo DS title Metal Slug 7 — is rounding the corner to its UMD-exclusive release February 23 on PSP. Apart from adding a new coat of paint, Double X adds support an ad-hoc two-player multiplayer mode, 70 missions and a kitchen sink full of blood and bullets. What? You don’t believe the game has a hearty dose of hot lead? Allow us (and Atlus) to prove it with the brand new trailer above. Also, never doubt us again!
Metal Slug XX trailer brings the bullets originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 12 Jan 2010 02:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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The prospect of “remote play” – whereby you can play select content from your PS3 on your PSP – is an exciting one, but also one that’s been sadly under-utilised by Sony and developers. Enter the mod scene.
This is the PS3 Wireless Visual Interface, by techknott. Which allows you to do anything and everything you’d normally do on your PS3 on your PSP.
Sounds amazing, but it’s really quite simple; all the device does is stream the PS3’s data directly via a 1.2GHz transmitter, which it then replicates on its own screen and speakers. There are compromises to be had doing this, sure, from graphics to poor sound to slight lag, but hey, you want portability, you’ve always got to be willing to make a trade-off.
What this means is that unlike Sony’s official remote play function, which for PS3 games has to be supported by developers, the WVI streams everything. Even Modern Warfare 2.
techknott’s – PS3 WVI (youtube video and pics included) [ben heck, via Engadget]
A week on from its launch and there’s a new batch of comics for sale on the PSP comic store. Anyone up for some new Transformers, 2000AD or Fantastic Four, head on through.
Both the North American and PAL stores have been updating, but licensing the way it is, the update isn’t universal. So we’ll list both separately.
NORTH AMERICA
* 2000AD Prog #1660 ($1.99)
* Ghost Rider (2005) #1-6 ($1.99 each)
* G.I. Joe: Cobra #1 ($0.99)
* G.I. Joe Origins #1-2 ($0.99 each)
* Locke & Key: Welcome to Lovecraft #1 ($0.99)
* Nanovor #1 ($0.99)
* The Fantastic Four (1961) #1-15 ($1.99 each)
* The Mighty Avengers (2007) #1-6 ($1.99 each)
* Transformers: All Hail Megatron #7 ($1.99)
* Wormwood: Gentleman Corpse: Birds, Bees, Blood & Beer #1-4 ($0.99 each)
EUROPE
* Ghost Rider (2005) #1 : The Road To Damnation #1- #6 – Marvel (£1.19/€1.49) Ages 15+
* The Fantastic Four (1961) #1 – #15 – Marvel (£1.19/€1.49) Ages 3+
* The Mighty Avengers (2007) #1 – #6 – Marvel (£1.19/€1.49) Ages 9+
* 2000AD Prog #1660 – 2000AD (£1.19/€1.49) Ages 15+
* Locke and Key: Welcome to Lovecraft #1 – IDW (£0.79/€0.99) Ages 17+
* Nanovor: Game Day #1 – IDW (£0.79/€0.99) Ages 9+
* Transformers: All Hail Megatron #7 – IDW (£1.19/€1.49) Ages 12+
* Wormwood: Gentleman Corpse #1 : Birds, Bees, Blood & Beer #1 – #4 – ID (£0.79/€0.99) Ages 17+
While I prefer the feel of a new comic in my hands, it’s nice seeing reasonable prices on a digital shopfront for once.
According to word from the latest Famitsu magazine, Tecmo will be bringing the Dead or Alive series to the PlayStation Portable. Great news… if you like everything but the fighting and volleyball portions of past Dead or Alive games.
Because Dead or Alive: Paradise is a lot like Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball, only without all that volleyball, giving extra attention to the gambling, mini-games and relationship management aspects of the Team Ninja series. And it’s probably a port of the game of the same name released for Japanese cell phones in late 2006. Expect to see the DOA girls in bikinis, doing bikini-appropriate things.
From what we’ve seen, the entire line-up of Dead or Alive ladies is here, as is Tecmo’s short-skirted and similarly stacked gambling mascot Rio. If you found the Dead or Alive Xtreme series “fun” this is probably going to be right up your alley.
The bigger, larger and more enormous Nintendo DSi LL continued to outsell the competition in its second week on the market in Japan, another 67,000-plus hardware units sold. It’s a stark contrast to competitor Sony’s most recent PSP revision.
While the PSP continues to sell well in Japan—another 38,000 handhelds sold—the PSPgo managed to move less than 4,000 units in the past week, according to sales tracker Media Create. That puts it in Xbox 360 territory, perhaps an indicator of Japanese consumer hardware acceptance for the download-only device.
Sony’s PlayStation 3, on the other hand, continues to move at a good clip, with hardware sales way up from the week prior. It managed to be outsold by the Wii this week, but by a mere 115 units. Media Create’s numbers are after this.
- Nintendo DSi LL – 67,243
- Wii – 46,673
- PlayStation 3 – 46,558
- PSP – 38,839
- Nintendo DSi – 37,021
- Nintendo DS Lite – 7,268
- PSPgo – 3,809
- Xbox 360 – 3,685
- PlayStation 2 – 2,057
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