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Mar 10, 2006

Daxter

PSP Preview | Daxter

The smaller, hairier half of PS2's platform-leaping duo Jak & Daxter is going it alone for this PSP adventure. Daxter spans the gap between the first two games in the series - the two friends have warped into a grim future, Jak's been locked up and an otherworldly enemy is beginning to invade. We caught a firsthand look at how Daxter is making it on his own. This future world is being overrun by Metal Bugs - mini relatives of the Metal Heads monsters that Jak trades lasers with in Jak 2. Lost, ...
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Mar 9, 2006

Daxter

PSP Preview | Daxter

After years of bragging about his accomplishments, Jak's fuzzy sidekick Daxter is putting his money where his muzzle is on March 21. Taking place in the two years between Jak & Daxter and Jak II, during which series hero Jak was imprisoned and tortured, the predictably-named Daxter follows the hyperactive otter-weasel creature as he searches for Jak in the big, scary future. While he's looking, though, Daxter needs to fend for himself, and that means getting a job. Bragging in a bar lands him ...
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Jun 26, 2007

Dead Head Fred - hands-on

PSP Preview | Dead Head Fred

Even by the bizarre standards of videogames, Fred Neuman is an unconventional hero. An undead, amnesiac private eye, Fred's out to solve the mystery of why someone murdered him and replaced his head with a brain floating in a jar. His hometown can best be described as a 1950s-era toxic-dump nightmare, which might explain his ability to rip zombies apart with his bare hands. He raises radioactive worms as a hobby, and then feeds them to mutant chickens that he enters in cockfights. Weirdest of ...
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May 18, 2006

Dead Head Fred - first look

PSP Preview | Dead Head Fred

Of all the weird games we saw at E3 this year, few of them were as flat-out bizarre as Dead Head Fred. Offering up a cartoonishly grim take on brawling and film noir, it tells the story of Fred, a detective who runs afoul of a local crime boss and winds up headless. Luckily for Fred, a kindly mad scientist finds his corpse and reanimates him as a jarheaded monstrosity, able to steal and use his enemies' heads as he tries to track down his memory. It's a gruesome, darkly funny premise, and Dead ...
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Oct 20, 2006

Death, Jr. 2: Root of Evil - hands-on

PSP Preview | Death, Jr. II: Root of Evil

The run-around-and-hit-things style of gaming is quickly becoming old hat. Take some quirky and/or badass characters, throw them in a third-person perspective and youve got about 75% of all the games out there right now. Hit a switch, grab a key, hit something in the face, whatever - it's always the same crap with a different smell. The first Death, Jr. felt a little something like that. So, it's at least cool to see a developer learn from its first time through and actually enhance the ...
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Jul 18, 2007

Destroy All Humans: Big Willy Unleashed

PSP Preview | Destroy All Humans: Big Willy Unleashed

Our biggest beef with Destroy All Humans 2 was that it felt like the usually coldhearted alien, Crypto was more concerned with saving the world than destroying humans. But it looks like this won't be a problem in Destroy All Humans: Big Willy Unleashed. In this mouth watering follow up - set after the events in Destroy All Humans 2 - Crypto decides to open his own restaurant which features human flesh as the secret ingredient. Although capturing and cooking people serves Crypto's antipathy ...
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Nov 29, 2007

Devil May Cry 4's new weapon

PSP Preview | Devil May Cry 4

Nov 29, 2007 At the recent Capcom Gamers Day in London, DMC4 producer Hiroyuki Kobayashi showed us a vibrant jungle level, Dantes new (and absurd) Pandoras Box weapon - see below - and a sexy, creepy boss named Echidna. “Leave my children alone, you bastard!” shrieks Echidna, twisting and turning through the air before landing and exposing a demented reptilian woman nestling ...
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Apr 25, 2007

Hands-on with handhelds - Touch the Dead, Diner...

PSP Preview | Diner Dash: Sizzle and Serve

The very first thing you see when entering their lobby is a curvaceous statue of Lara Croft. The second thing? An intimidating life-size replica of Hitman's Agent 47. But gaming publisher Eidos is offering more than just testosterone and other hormone-driven action games this year. They've also got a surprising number of mainstream-friendly handheld titles in the lineup. The games are simple and straightforward... are they also addictive? We dropped by their offices earlier this week to find ...
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Jan 21, 2008

Downstream Panic! - hands-on

PSP Preview | Downstream Panic!

As Downstream Panic! begins, a cyclone comes out of nowhere and sucks up all the tiny fish in the ocean, leaving behind a bunch of angry, hungry and exceptionally ugly creatures. As a good Samaritan it's your job to guide the little fish back to the ocean, hopefully without getting eaten on the way. You'll have access to a wide assortment (but limited supply) of tools to accomplish this task, ranging from bombs and harpoons to fans and flowers, and while it might seem easy at first - ...
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Apr 5, 2006

Dragon Ball Z: Shin Budokai

PSP Preview | Dragon Ball Z: Shin Budokai

Wednesday 5 April 2006 Ludicrous plots, spiky haircuts that would shame a Wella Shockwaves ad and fights upon battles after punch ups. But then what were you expecting to see in a Dragon Ball Z game? True to form, this is all beating the crap out of each other as flamboyantly as possible. It'll probably come as no surprise to learn that it's not the deepest of scrappers either. The fighting, while doubtful to worry the likes of Virtua Fighter, packs a fair amount of variety into a simple two ...
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