As far as first-person shooters go, PSP owners have been left in the cold as of late. But all is not lost; Activision and Amaze Entertainment are bringing up the rear with an exclusive installment of its uber-reputable Call of Duty series, Roads to Victory, to make you recall a time when supporting the war effort was the bees knees. So why have developers been shying away from portable first-person shooters while happily cranking them out on consoles at a rate of nearly two per day? The ...
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18 Sep 2006

Capcom Classics Collection Reloaded

PSP Preview | Capcom Classics Collection Reloaded

Capcom just keeps plugging away with compilations of their classic properties, each one a little bit smoother than the last. With Capcom Classics Collection Reloaded, Capcom gets the series on schedule for the PSP. It is yet another ridiculously well packed UMD full of old-school gaming, but with some of the same issues as the last game in the PSP series. The game list is excellent almost regardless of your taste in older games. The one key thing to remember before jumping in seems to be that ...
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17 Apr 2006

Capcom Puzzle World

PSP Preview | Capcom Puzzle World

If you were much of a puzzle game fan in the '90s, you probably came across Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo at some point. A combination Street Fighter parody/Tetris clone, it had players arranging falling gems into giant, similarly colored groupings and then smashing them for points. The bigger the groupings you smashed, the more gems would rain into your opponent's side of the screen, forcing them to deal with your runoff as they tried to keep their side from filling ...
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25 Aug 2006

Cash Money Chaos - impressions

PSP Preview | Cash Guns Chaos

Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) is best known for its online and offline role-playing games, so it's surprising that the company will release an all-out action title. Cash Money Chaos takes one part Smash TV and one part The Running Man, shakes, stirs and serves the concoction on ice for your PSP. The game is all about balls-to-the-wall action and in-your-face humor - a decided departure from the company that brought you the rat-killing fest EverQuest. While this is a new direction for SOE, it ...
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13 Feb 2007

Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles

PSP Preview | Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles

As Konami tells it, the PSP's hardware sales were in a downward spiral. Then they released Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops, the game sold well, and the PSP's sales abruptly spiked. It's hard not to draw a line between those facts and the decision, which is already proving somewhat controversial, to release The Dracula X Chronicles on PSP. This compilation disc represents something that American and European gamers have been asking about for more than a decade now: a translation of the Dracula ...
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2 Feb 2007

Castlevania: Dracula X Chronicles

PSP Preview | Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles

As if the instant classic Portrait of Ruin weren't enough. Last night publisher Konami, lords of everything vampiric, announced Dracula X Chronicles for the PSP. This compilation includes a spruced-up version of the previously unreleased Rondo of Blood and, perhaps more importantly, a full conversion of PlayStation legend Symphony of the Night. If that sea of italics and modified pieces of music don't ring any bells, listen up. Rondo never made it to the US, but is often considered one of the ...
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26 Jan 2007

Chili Con Carnage - hands-on

PSP Preview | Chili Con Carnage

Friday 26 January 2007 The game with the stupidest name ever - except for Earache Extreme Racing - is a fantastic example of a title catering to PSPs strengths. Rather than try to crowbar Total Overdoses free-roaming city into the handheld sequel, Developers Deadline have instead created a series of focused single-player missions and the game is all the better for it. Flying around performing loco moves in glorious slow-mo is a revelation. We defy you not to giggle with delight as you flip ...
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25 Jan 2007

Chili Con Carnage - hands-on

PSP Preview | Chili Con Carnage

The game with the stupidest name ever - except for Earache Extreme Racing - is a fantastic example of a title catering to PSPs strengths. Rather than try to crowbar Total Overdoses free-roaming city into the handheld sequel, Developers Deadline have instead created a series of focused single-player missions and the game is all the better for it. Flying around performing loco moves in glorious slow-mo is a revelation. We defy you not to giggle with delight as you flip off a wall, shoot three ...
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12 Dec 2006

Chili Con Carnage - first look

PSP Preview | Chili Con Carnage

The gun-crazed, spice-obsessed, wildly over-the-top shoot 'em-up Chili Con Carnage is racing toward PSPs this spring, and after weeks of screenshots, we've finally seen the game in action. Continuing the adventures of agent Ramiro Cruz, this semi-sequel to Total Overdose: A Gunslinger's Tale in Mexico combines an El Mariachi-inspired Mexican setting with vehicle stunts and impossible bullet ballet. And what's more, it's looking great. The game opens innocently enough, with Ramiro bringing his ...
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7 Aug 2009

All the dirt on DiRT 2

PSP Preview | Colin McRae Dirt 2

Rally car racing is a sport in transition. Like mixed martial arts, it’s spent the last several years carving out a slice of mindshare from sports fans eager for new spectacles. Rally has long been popular in Europe and Asia, and now has growing mainstream acceptance in America thanks to the late Colin McRae’s efforts to hitch the sport to the X Games. ...

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