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Vita Uncharted, Gravity Rush free for Playstation Plus members

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Handheld, PSP / Vita On: 14 Nov

Sony’s premium Playstation Plus service is making the jump to the PS Vita next week, and subscribers will be able to score free downloads of Uncharted: Golden Abyss and Gravity Rush at no additional cost.

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Dragon Quest VII remake coming to 3DS in 2013

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Gaming News, Handheld, Nintendo DS/3DS On: 30 Oct

Square-Enix created remakes of Dragon Quests 4 through 6 on the DS, and it looks like they’re going to continue remaking the remaining entries in the series on the 3DS: according to some leaked scans from the latest Shonen Jump, the previously PS1 exclusive Dragon Quest VII is getting a full 3D remake that will [...]

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Corpse Party sequel coming to PSP this winter

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Gaming News, Handheld, PSP / Vita On: 22 Oct

Corpse Party was definitely one of last year’s most underrated games: you’d never expect a game featuring cute schoolgirls and simple 2D graphics to be scary, but Corpse Party surprised a lot of people with just how creepy it could be. Despite being a bit of a niche release, the game apparently sold well enough [...]

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Nintendo’s Japanese livestream gives us new details about 3DS Animal Crossing

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Gaming News, Handheld, Nintendo DS/3DS On: 05 Oct

Nintendo hosted another one of their “Nintendo Direct” livestreams in Japan today, and this time they specifically highlighted the changed that were coming to the strangely popular Animal Crossing franchise. While the latest game for 3DS outwardly looks the same, Nintendo is promising that some substantial changes are in store for their cuddly community sim.

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Vita Muramasa features new DLC content

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, Handheld, PSP / Vita, Wii On: 27 Sep

Underrated Wii action-RPG Muramasa is being ported over to the Playstation Vita, and fans of the 3 year old game might just have a reason to double-dip and buy Muramasa all over again: Vanillaware announced today that the Vita version of the game will feature an all new downloadable sidequest.

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Latest 3DS firmware renders existing flashcarts useless

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Gaming News, Handheld, Nintendo DS/3DS On: 25 Sep

I know more than a few people who stopped buying DS games once they got their hands on a flashcart filled with ROMs, but it seems like piracy on the 3DS is about to get a whole lot harder — the makers of several flashcarts, including the popular SuperCard, have stated that the latest 3DS [...]

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PS Vita gets new hardware colors, Playstation Plus service

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Handheld, Playstation 3, PSP / Vita On: 19 Sep

In addition to the redesigned PS3, Sony had a fair bit of Vita news to share: following handheld tradition, the Vita will be getting two new hardware colors this Fall (in Japan, at least) Red and Blue. More exciting than that though was the announcement that the Playstation Plus premium service would finally be extending [...]

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Portable Neo Geo X will also be $130 by itself

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Gaming News, Handheld On: 13 Sep

Nintendo may be grabbing all the headlines today, but there’s another system by a beloved Japanese developer coming out soon: SNK is still planning to release the Neo Geo X, a new handheld version of their classic arcade system, in a few months. Gamers previously balked at the $200 price tag for the original Neo [...]

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Phoenix is back! First Ace Attorney 5 details surface

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Handheld, Nintendo DS/3DS On: 04 Sep

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney was a surprise hit for Capcom during the days of the original DS, and now Capcom is hoping that Ace Attorney’s cult of extremely dedicated fans follow the bumbling lawyer over to the 3DS.

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Final Fantasy Anniversary Box bundles 13 FF games in one massive collection

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, Handheld, Playstation 3, PSP / Vita On: 31 Aug

Yesterday Konami celebrated Metal Gear’s 25th Anniversary. Today, Square-Enix gets to celebrate the quater-centennial of their own flagship franchise. Square is notorious for using any reason they can to re-release old games, but this time it kind of makes sense: for FF’s big 25th birthday, they’re re-releasing Final Fantasies 1 – 13 in one massive [...]

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26 additional PSOne games now playable on Vita

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Gaming News, Handheld, PSP / Vita On:

Last week Sony finally patched in support for PSOne classics on the Vita, but American gamers were peeved at their relatively limited choices: while European and Japanese gamers got access to hundreds of PSOne games, us poor Americans had to make do with a pathetic selection of 9 titles. Vita owners around the nation bitched, [...]

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Next Professor Layton game to be the last in the series

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Gaming News, Nintendo DS/3DS On: 29 Aug

During today’s Nintendo Direct press conference, Level 5 CEO Akihiko Hino announced Professor Layton and The Secret of Super Civilization A (expect that title to change when the game hits Western shores,) the latest and apparently last entry in the popular Professor Layton series.

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