Amazon.com is offering a free PlayStation Portable game with the purchase of the most recent PlayStation Portable (PSP-3000) game system. There are three good games to select from: God of War: Chains of Olympus, LocoRoco and Hot Shots Golf Open Tee. Not a bad way to start playing on the PSP!

From Amazon.com:
"For a limited time, when you purchase a PSP 3000 Core Pack - Black, you can get a qualifying PSP Greatest Hits title for free*. Offer limited to products shipped and sold by Amazon.com. Offer begins at 12:00 AM Pacific time on 5/10/09 and ends at 11:59 PM Pacific time on 5/16/09. This offer may not be combined with other offers or promotional certificates. Limit one free game per household.
*Tax and shipping charges may apply."
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Pocket Gamer has picked up on exclusive information that Glu is currently localizing the hit PSP game, LocoRoco, for the European mobile market. Titled LocoRoco Hi, Pocket Gamer has more details and screenshots on the biggest new mobile announcement this year.
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PSPfanboy: "Those of you lucky enough to have a Japanese Playstation Network ID will be able to jump onto the Playstation Store (via PC or PS3) and download the brand new Patapon demo. However, be warned! This quirky game is best played when fully understood."
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MAXCONSOLE: Mr305 has released the first ever piece of PSP homebrew that adds motion sensing support for a commercial game. The homebrew utilizes the Neo Motion Kit and it allows you to tilt the PSP either left or right in order to let Loco's do their magic.
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Nick Doerr of pspfanboy.com says:

If you've been an avid PSP Fanboy reader, or an avid LocoRoco player, you might remember our downloadable demo last Christmas. Seems we're getting another treat this year as well, as it appears a demo with Santa Blob Person is on its way. The SCEJ website indicates a December 13th date, and availability on the PSP and the PC's version of the PlayStation Store. Or, you know, you could just get it from us. We'll get back to you on this subject in a little under a week.
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The Locoroco team have added a page at Sony careers' section where they announce they are looking for new members to work on the new PSP game.
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SCEE Has announed 2 new packs for their brand new launched PSP Slim & Lite.

After launching 2 other kid packs (the simpsons & spiderman) Sony tought it was time for something else and created 2 new bundles for the kids. Its clear the sony wants to persuade the younger gamers that the playstation portable is a hot item and a must have.

First we have the Locorocco pack wich will contain a ice silver psp slim & lite and the game locorocco.

The other pack is My sims: pets wich wil include a simular ice silver psp slim & lite and the game the sims 2: pets.

The packs wil go on sale on October 24 for €189,99 and its not sure if these packs will ever make it outside Europe.
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The recently released Resident Evil 5 trailer is currently causing a storm of debate across the internet after one critic - a single, solitary person writing on a blog - fingered the game as being racist in its depiction of black people as "inhuman savages" and for the fact that a white man in military clothing is employed to destroy them. It's an interesting opinion, certainly, but one that we happen to think is wrong. While a cursory glance at Resident Evil 5 may give the impression that ...
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LocoRoco creator Tsutomu Kouno has told GamesIndustry.biz that too many of the games available for the PSP are sequels - and that he plans to redress the balance.

Speaking at the Nordic Game conference earlier this week Kouno said, "We need to make more new games for PSP, not just sequels. We have to increase the number of casual games, games that LocoRoco players will want to play."

He also said he has many new ideas for games on the PSP but that he can't make them all because he is "only one person."
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President of Sony Worldwide Studios fields questions in Sin City; says European PS3s are already in transit; LocoRoco 2 and PS3 rubber-duck game revealed.

With the PlayStation 3 supply now steady in North America and Japan and the console's European launch around the corner, people are pondering Sony's next move. Many speculated the electronics giant might tip its hand at the D.I.C.E. Summit in Las Vegas. The annual event takes place each February at the sprawling Green Valley Ranch complex, and draws a select group of elite game-industry glitterati together for an extended weekend of schmoozing and boozing.

Today, Sony Worldwide Studios president Phil Harrison sat in front of a high-powered crowd for an "informal" question and answer session with Newsweek games correspondent N'Gai Croal. GameSpot is on the scene with live updates of what the affable executive has to say.
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