Today Disney Interactive announced it has released a Collector's Edition of its surprise hit Spectrobes. Released earlier this year, Spectrobes is an action RPG with similarities to Pokemon that was the best-selling third-party DS game in March 2007.
Issue 2 of HGZine, the free magazine for Sony PSP and Nintendo DS, includes an exclusive column by Steve Lycet from Sumo Digital (makers of TOCA, OutRun 2006, and Virtua Tennis) on how a game is converted to the PSP. Also in the issue are reviews of Lunar Knights, Phoenix Wright, Prince of Persia Rival Swords, Spectrobes and many more. There are also previews of Call of Duty Roads to Victory, Harvest Moon, My Sims, and a roundup of every Final Fantasy game in development for handheld devices (no small feat!).
Playing as a boy action star called Taiga, Fossil League's backstory sees you travelling back in time to collect, tame and battle dinosaur fossils in what's described as a Pokemon-style.
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