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Astro Boy: Omega Factor was a side-scrolling wonder on the Game Boy Advance. I own a copy, and to this day, I still enjoy the visceral thrill of smacking around an onslaught of robots using endless strings of combos. Because of my positive gaming experience with Astro Boy back in 2004, I was expecting that [...]

Konami recently revealed a Q&A session with iconic game designer Hideo Kojima. The little chat is mostly a teaser on Kojima’s latest Metal Gear project—namely Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, which is making its way to the PlayStation Portable in 2010.
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker is set ten years after the events of Metal Gear [...]

Capcom is again giving away free downloadable quests for Monster Hunter Freedom Unite on the PlayStation Portable, but there’s a catch: you’re going to have to bring your PSP and copy of Monster Hunter Freedom Unite to Capcom’s booth at San Diego Comic-Con next week.
If you do manage to show up at Comic-Con with game [...]

Monster Hunter much? Then you’ll love this: Capcom announced that there’s a new quest for Monster Hunter Freedom Unite on the PlayStation Portable, and it’s available today. So before you take off for the holiday weekend, make sure you get the Triumvirate of Sands quest.
Getting the Monster Hunter DLC is simple: All you have to [...]

Do you smell that? It’s the scent of hogwash. It’s coming from an interview with Sony’s product planning group head, Naoya Matsui at GameBusiness.jp (via Joystiq). Matsui revealed that Sony had always planned for its PlayStation Portable to go UMD-less, and that its new PSP Go is the end result of that vision.
Matsui said:
We’d planned [...]