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BMX Is Back (Dave Mirra BMX Challenge)

27/02/2007

Oxygen, the proud owners of 'Dave Mirra BMX Challenge' have announced a new BMX title will be appearing on the PSP in May.

Easily the most decorated athlete in the history of the X games, Dave Mirra has dominated the competition arena for over a decade. Dave Mirra BMX Challenge lets you defy gravity wherever you go. With ad hoc wireless play for 1-4 players, challenge friends to racing and freestyle competitions and see who's got what it takes to ride with the greatest.

Dave Mirra BMX Challenge features nine exciting environments in which to race or ride freestyle including Shipyard, Far East, Washington Heights and a NASA space shuttle! Progress through 17 challenging levels as you compete in exhibition, novice and pro circuit modes.

Will this title be in your collection?

Dave Mirra's second coming (Dave Mirra BMX Challenge)

13/04/2006

Some of you might remember the 2002 blow-up between Dave Mirra and Acclaim, when the BMX stunt rider sued the publisher for dragging his name into colossal crapfest BMX XXX. The controversy apparently didn't sour Mirra on games entirely, though, as he's starting over with a new title and a new ...

PSPgo Launch Plans Outlined (Daxter)

26/09/2009

The PSP has seen a number of revisions over the course of its existance, and the PSPgo is the latest evolution of the system that's hitting retail in less than two weeks. With the system's launch right around the corner, Sony sent IGN a small note that detailed a few pieces of juicy information that PSP fans might find interesting.

PSPgo - No Free Game Downloads Planned for North America (Daxter)

25/09/2009

WorthPlaying contacted SCEA to find out if it planned to match the PSPgo Rewards program announced by SCEE this morning and was told that Sony had no plans at this time to match the European offer.

"There hasn't been any announcement yet that there will be an equivalent rewards program for North America..."

Sony In Talks with Ready At Dawn About PSP Title (Daxter)

27/02/2009

Kotaku Writes:

Ready at Dawn, the development studio behind two of the most popular titles for the Playstation Portable, may be returning to PSP development.

Ready at Dawn finished with PSP (Daxter)

10/06/2008

Developer Ready at Dawn, responsible for two of the PSP's biggest titles of recent years, has reiterated that it has no intention of developing for Sony's handheld any longer.

"With Chains of Olympus going gold in Japan, we're now officially done with PSP development," the Irvine, California-based studio said in a post on its website.

"So today we sent all our devkits back and seeing all these boxes ready to be picked up ...

Ready at Dawn Done with PSP Development, Sends DevKits Back (Daxter)

10/06/2008

Kombo Reports: "Ready at Dawn has been the prime developer for the PSP since their first title Daxter. Soon after they hit a homerun with a portable version of the hit PS2 console platformer, Ready at Dawn moved on and developed the recently released and major hit God of War: Chains of Olympus. Well, we are about to bid farewell to one of the greatest handheld developers of the modern era. Today, Ready at Dawn revealed that they have finished the Japanese version of God of War and thus ending their PSP development for good. They have sent back their devkits to Sony and look forward to the future, where they are certain to shine bright.

"With Chains of Olympus going Gold in Japan (????!!????!), we're now officially done with PSP development.

So today we sent all our devkits back and seeing all these boxes ready to be picked up definitely marks the end of an era here at Ready At Dawn.

Can't wait to show you guys what we have in storeÂ¿.""

Daxter PSP sells two million worldwide (Daxter)

4/02/2008

Kath Brice from Pocket Gamer:

"PSP game Daxter was released almost two years ago (in April 2006) but it still managed to achieve more sales in December than almost any other month previously."

Daxter PSP descends on retail (Daxter)

6/09/2007

Sony's redesigned handheld debuts today exclusively with Ready at Dawn's platformer; stand-alone package arrives later this month, limited-edition Star Wars pack in October.

...the newly dubbed Daxter PSP Entertainment Pack, is now available for purchase at the promised price of $199.99. As advertised, the Daxter bundle includes a silver PSP Slim, a copy of Daxter game, a 1GB memory stick Duo, and Family Guy: The Freakin' Sweet Collection, which includes five "hand-picked" episodes of Fox's absurdist comedy.

Vicious Engine Signed to SCEE (Dead Head Fred)

11/11/2008

The adaptable, easy-to-learn middleware has been used to design games of every style, including Adventure/Platform games like Dead Head Fred and the best-selling Flushed Away, deeply addictive casual fare like Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords for PlayStation2 and PlayStation Portable, and even instructional/educational titles like Discover Babylon and INNOV8.

Vicious Cycle Software recently announced...

'Classic' PSP games coming to PlayStation Store (Dead Head Fred)

9/09/2008

"While it doesn't quite fulfill our wish list of PSP games we'd most want to purchase by download and run from a single Memory Stick, D3 Publisher's "classic" catalog is coming to PlayStation Store (the PC one) this September. Props for being ahead of the curve. Up for digital delivery will be:"

D3Publisher of America and Vicious Cycle Software's Dead Head Fred Wins WGA's First-Ever Videogame Writing Award (Dead Head Fred)

15/02/2008

Dead Head Fred, the critically acclaimed videogame created specifically for the PSP by publisher D3Publisher of America, Inc., and developer Vicious Cycle Software, Inc., has won the Writers Guild of America's inaugural Videogame Writing Award.

HGZine Issue 9 published (Dead Head Fred)

11/10/2007

New issue of free PSP and DS magazine previews Call of Duty 4 on DS, plus 17 other handheld games.

New shots from Dead Head Fred (Dead Head Fred)

3/04/2007

Twisted noir. That's what Dead Head Fred is described as, a weird third-person action-adventure heading to PSP that stars a headless detective who can stick on new heads to tackle various situations. ...

Dead Head Fred to emerge at E3 (Dead Head Fred)

4/05/2006

D3Publisher today announced Dead Head Fred, an action game for the PSP due out early next year. The title - which, amazingly enough, has nothing to do with hippies - will be on display at E3 next week, and will showcase the first hero to not only sever the noggins of his enemies, but to use them to grant himself new abilities. Taking place in a film-noir alternate universe, Dead Head Fred puts players in control of Fred Neuman, a private eye who gets murdered and then resurrected as a headless ...

Death Jr. 2: Root of Evil coming to Wii (Death Junior 2 - Root of Evil)

15/02/2008

Eidos is bringing the PSP game Death Jr. 2: Root of Evil to the Wii in Summer 2008. Check out these new screens. Developed by Backbone Entertainment, the game charts the adventures of the Grim Reaper's son. We don't like to be judgemental, but it's hard to remain calm when we see a major publisher release a game ported from a handheld that only has a Metacritic rating of 68. It's also not a good sign that Konami, the previous distributor of the ...

Death Jr. 2 creeps into view (Death Junior 2 - Root of Evil)

5/06/2006

After unleashing the horrors of Pandora's Box and nearly getting grounded in Death, Jr., you'd think DJ and his stunted friends would have learned to leave ancient forces of evil the hell alone. You'd be wrong, though; in Death, Jr. 2: Root of Evil, they've apparently awakened a whole new menace. When the game hits this fall, they'll once again have to shoot, jump and slash their way through the freakish armies of the ...

Hip-hop icons show off their moves (Def Jam Fight For NY The Takeover)

14/07/2006

If you're one of the many who's been waiting on pins and needles for Def Jam Fight for NY: The Takeover to arrive on PSP, you can get another taste of the hip-hop fighting explodaganza with our four new videos. Like the last batch of movies, the new videos cut between real-life hip-hop royalty and their ass-kicking in-game counterparts, all while showing off a lot of nice-looking gameplay with Carmen Electra, Sean Paul and Snoop Dogg. There's also a bonus fourth video, showing off the game's ...

Def Jam gets animated (Def Jam Fight For NY The Takeover)

10/07/2006

Bubba Sparxxx wants to know if you're ready to get it on. Or at least that's what the rapper asks in his new Def Jam Fight for NY: The Takeover video, one of three released by publisher EA ahead of the rapper-filled fighting game's July 18 release. The new, high-quality vids show off plenty of slick-looking gameplay footage, mixed in with close-ups of Sparxxx and Busta Rhymes getting hammy in the recording studio. One of them also offers up an in-depth look at the character-creation mode, ...

Fistful of new Def Jam screens (Def Jam Fight For NY The Takeover)

30/05/2006

We've said it before and we'll say it again - not every game starring rappers is a mistake. The evidence? The Def Jam series, which has provided stylish, two-fisted fighting action since it first hit the PS2. The Takeover - based on 2004's console-bound Fight For NY, but with upgrades - is set to hit PSPs in July. The game is set to feature the faintly amusing mix of brutal fighting and fashion we've come to expect from the Def Jam games. And, of course, the luminaries of the hip-hop world ...