Valkyria Chronicles (PS3) was a sleeper hit.  Those that haven’t tried out this turn based strategy RPG really should go rent this.  Those of us anxiously awaiting to get our grubby little hands on just a glimpse of the sequal may rejoice.  The Valkyria Chronicles 2 (PSP) demo is out now.  The downside, it is all in Japanese.  Get that Japanese to English translation book out, or just push buttons and look at the pretty pictures.  Either way, hopefully this means an English translated demo is on its way to the states.

The demo can be found here (it’s safe, it is straight from Sega).

Hope you like Pinball.

PS1 Classics for PSP

Command & Conquer: Red Alert ($5.99) - For all of you who missed it before or are not Korean.

PSP Games

Pinball Heroes – High Velocity Bowling ($3.99) – Virtual pinball game based on High Velocity Bowling.

Pinball Heroes – Hot Shots Golf ($3.99) - Ditto. But based on Hot Shots Golf.

Pinball Heroes – PAIN ($3.99) - See a pattern here?

Pinball Heroes – Uncharted($3.99) - I’ll give you 3 guesses and the first 2 don’t count.

PSP minis for PSP

Bubble Trubble ($4.99) - Does not contain pinball.

Rock Band Unplugged songs -

• “Excuse Me Mister”— No Doubt ($1.99)
• “I’m Shipping Up to Boston”— Dropkick Murphys ($1.99)

Konami Digital Entertainment we be shipping Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s Tagforce 4 on November 17, 2009.  PSP fans will get to play through the Dark Signers story line this time around. On top of the single player story mode, up to four friends can compete with the games wireless ad-hoc mode.

There are 4,000 playable trading cards in this little PSP game, including cards from Ancient Prophecy and Stardust Overdrive.  4,000 cards!  Completion addicts gets ready for hours of card hunting, like 300 hours or more.  And people thought Disgaea was a time sink!

Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s Tagforce 4 will ship November 17, 2009 at an MSRP of $29.99.  Get those batteries charging!

PSP owners will be getting some non-iPhone ported love in the form of Echoes.  Developer Halfbrick is releasing Echoes for PSP Minis on November 19, 2009.  Echoes will come with four game play modes and promises some bizarre and surreal environments.  PSP owners should be checking this game out when it hits the PSN.  Just take a look at this trailer:

Can you wait? We can’t. Thankfully, these lovely looking games release on the 17th in North America, the 19th in Australia, the 20th in Europe, and on the 23rd of December in Japan. Stay tuned right here for more news and reviews of this sweetly anticipated portable game, and at GamesAreEvil for the console version. Also, check out the screenies below:

It's that time of the week again! PSN UPDATE TIME! BOOYAH!

Now with more Ben 10 and Star Wars…

PS1 Classics for PSP

Gex ($5.99) - See the Geico lizard early in his career.

PSP Games

Ben 10 Alien Force ($19.99) – Why is this one 20 bucks..

Ben 10: Protector of Earth ($14.99) - …and this one 15?

Crimson Room: Reverse  ($7.99) - Because ‘Red Room: Reverse’ is just not that scary.

Class of Heroes ($39.99) - Better be ‘high class’ for 40 bucks.

Dungeon Maker: Hunting Ground ($14.99) - It’s like Autocad for D&D players.

Creature Defense ($7.99) - The best Creature Offense is a good Creature Defense.

Numblast PSP ($4.99) - A puzzle game for fans of math.

Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron PSP ($29.99) - Because they will never stop milking this license.

Star Wars Clone Wars: Republic Heroes ($29.99) - See?

Dissidia Final Fantasy ($39.99) - 40 bucks of fan service.

Ghostbusters The Video Game ($29.99) - Officially endorsed by Ernie Hudson.

Rock Band Unplugged songs -

• “My Old School” — Steely Dan ($1.99)
• “Kool Thing” — Sonic Youth ($1.99)

Combine Tower Defense with Card Strategy, and what do you get? Bippity Boppity Boo! Oh, wait, no. You get Hudson Entertainment’s Creature Defense for the PSP and PSP Go. We have no clue how fun this game will be, but for $8, it doesn’t have to be TOO perfect. The artwork (below in our fancy schmancy gallery) seems to say that it’ll be pretty to look at, at least. Enjoy!

Yes, this game was pretty as hell.

Today, Famitsu revealed that a new BlazBlue game, tentatively titled BlazBlue Portable, would be coming to the PSP. This comes not long after the release of BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger, the highly acclaimed 2D Hi-Def fighter for the Xbox 360 and PS3. We have no more confirmed details about the game besides its impending release, although given that the PSP has a big beautiful screen and a control layout perfect for 2D fighters, we expect nothing but quality from the franchise. The title is supposed to be released on February 25, and word on the street (read: Internet) has it that the game will support 4 player ad hoc, although we don’t really have any official information to go by at the moment.

Fast, fun, and frantic gameplay that will appeal even to RPG haters,
and enough satire and snark to make our hearts all atwitter. Review
coming soon, but Half-Minute Hero is worth checking out for sure.

So, you just spent that $20 on a PSN card, thinking you’d get MAYBE one game off of it, and what actually happens? A ton of PSP games go on sale! Just look at these deals:

• echochrome for $5 (usually $10)
• Super Stardust Portable for $5 (usually $10)
• Myst for $10 (usually $20)
• Unbound Saga for $5 (usually $10)
• Brain Challenge for $5 (usually $10)

These are all available at these half-off prices until 11/4/09, so get them while you can!