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While we’re still eagerly awaiting the launch of the game stateside, check out the preview screens of Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep that dropped at the Tokyo Game Show last October. Square Enix has been hard at work on lots of epic graphics and audio for this game, and our heads have been exploding with anticipation of the final drop.

From the trailer, we could at least discern the primary antagonist, Maleficent. We learned that the main player-driven character is a dude named Terra, and this is his first appearance in the Kingdom Hearts realm.
There’s lots of new bad guys and new move executions to try out. Standard keyblade moves follow through with the circle button; blocking is controlled by the square button. X, of course, is still the jump.

The game looks great, but we’re still waiting on an exact release date. The PSP underground is literally tearing their eyeballs out waiting for this epic title to finally release, so don’t soil your jimmies: we’ll keep you posted on new dates as they drop.

CES showed off a new application on the PSP that transforms it into a Wi-Fi remoter control that can handle networked audio streams from the Sony-brand audio receiver.

With the application, users can adjust settings, set up and oversee playlists, and browse audio libraries right on the PSP. The XMB drives the interface in the standard implementation.

They’re still beta-testing this, so the public release hasn’t necessarily been promised for any specific date. Other software has tried out the notion of a remote control on the PSP, but hopefully this one will take advantage of the collective knowledge to produce an application that’s ready for prime time. More news as it drops.

Square Enix has finally launched the website for the Fabula Nova Crystallis series, so start pumping your fists in the air and getting all sweaty. If you can read Japanese, there’s a bunch of stuff to read about the games. Slog through with a translator if you have to – there’s bound to be some interesting stuff in the mix. Final Fantasy freaks will love some of the images that you can find on the website.

Yep, for you fans of the Japanese-only Dissidia: Final Fantasy, there’s a couple of new passwords available for unlocking even more indulgent, exceptionally geeky content. You have to enter the following passwords in the Friend Card message using the hankaku character set:

A3NASX6UXT7
H3CSH3SDA3YUN

In exchange for the first, you’ll receive the FFIX Steiner Friend Card. The second will land you a Gemini Recipe for the ‘Critical Luck’ item.

Enjoy these tidbits while we press on through the galaxy of Playstation tomfoolery, on our relentless, epic quest for more morsels of fun.

We’ve gotten some time with Buzz! Brain Bender, a recent release from SCEE and Relentless. The game is full of puzzles which are actually kind of engrossing and certainly difficult for all sizes of brains, but the game itself is only lukewarm. This will appeal to fans of the genre, but might not attract the new following that the genre deserves, and may even repel the most diehard puzzlemasters.

You pretty much have to endure a number of different puzzles and then find out what your Brainpower rating is, and then see how your brain is improving over time. However, you can play the games as many times in a row as you want, eliminating a perhaps crucial control variable from the not-so-scientific-to-begin with concept. A lot of other similar games allow testing just once-a-day, which creates a more reliable picture of improvement over time.

There’s basic math stuff included here, as well as some rather intriguing pattern recognition and visual mindbending. You’re not going to get boggled if you’re a genius, but even a big thinker might break a sweat on some of these well-designed exercises. Also, different challenge levels are unlocked as your progress through gameplay, so expect a little bit of a ramp-up if you’re finding the game too easy right off the bat.

Content aside, the game itself looks good and takes advantage of the pretty PSP screen. Its colors are warm and energetic, and you’ll at least appreciate the palette. Try this one out a little bit before you commit, but we think it’ll garner a mixed reaction at best from gamers across the board.

Word from the underground has Midnight Club: LA Remix favored by fans of the series, and especially by die-hard followers of the extreme racing genre, and we tend to agree; this title is packed with action, looks and sounds great, and has tons of replayability. We think its features outweigh the grievances hands-down, and we’re excited to get our friends hooked on this title, too.

The city in which the game takes place is big even for games of this generation, and it’s rendered well. Cruising around look for trouble and destruction doesn’t get much better than this, especially when you’re actually walking around a crummy little town, or sitting on the subway, or commuting to work in your penguin suit.

There’s lots of ways to keep your supercharged racer cruising at speeds around 200 mph, including riding out an opponent’s slipstream in order to take advantage of a turbo boost. Lots of super-aggro characters spew a lot of trash at you from the speakers, so you’ll be adequately pumped up to compete, especially when you’re often restarting races due to unfortunate blow-aways in the middle to high-level difficulties. Racing fans be warned: this might well be your next nail-biting, compulsive pleasure.

Yep, the rumor mill is grinding away again, and this time there’s a lot substantiated talk of at least two more portable systems on the way from Sony. The PSP is due for a true successor, and fans have been waiting eagerly to see the second genuine ground-up incarnation of the PSP. The new package will probably look very similar to the original PSP, but should push some brand-spanking new hardware. They’ll likely focus on cranking the GPU and visual processing, and probably do some stuff to the connectivity to make online massiveness even more massive.

The other model that we’ve peeked is labeled the PSP 4000. This thing might actually drop this year, which is 2009, if you didn’t notice that the calendar just rolled over. It looks basically like a giant screen with little else to get in the way. Looks like a media geek dream to us, and we expect that it’ll drop with a slew of new interactive and media titles that’ll make use of that beautiful display. Official word is that all rumors of a PSP 2 is being outright denied, but that PSP 4000 looks like it might actually hit the shelves in the next several months.

Yep. It seemed like a good premise: mashing together some of that nostalgic, collectible card game fun with a turn-based strategy game. We remember how much of a good time it was to lay out some cards and tap them and put counters on them and stuff, and, heck, some of us are still doing it. Too bad it didn’t really work out in this game; Neverland Card Battles is stuck somewhere between the idea and actually creating a game that’s fun to play and has some coherency.

The graphics in this game suck. We know they’re cute and kind of retro, but they’re just lazy. The storyline is kind of cool, or at least it’s solid enough to hold our attention long enough to comment on the gameplay. It’s a typical, anime-influenced, timeless battle of epicness and heroes and quests.

Actually, the game itself is more like a board game with card game elements. Strategy fans might like it. It might even translate into an interesting tabletop game, with cute, die-cast figures and some clickable plastic bases. But, as a PSP game, it’s just lame. For some reason, the developers really cheaped out on the implementation. Even the audio is dumb. Try it out for yourself, though. Maybe we’re not seeing the trees for the forest.

Check out some great new screen grabs of the forthcoming game, Resistance Retribution, set to release for PSP later this year. Developed by Insomniac Games, this action shooter promises to deliver a ton of blood-curdling visuals and an eerie, engrossing plotline that’ll have genre fans on the edge of their seat.

The game follows a European conflict, with a Royal Navy Lieutenant as one of the protagonists, and some other new characters as well. The game also interfaces with the PS3 to maximize the immersive elements and to encourage expandability, as well as for the convenience of utilizing a large screen and a real controller.

The graphics look terrific, and we hear that there’s a lot of surprises to uncover for fans of the series. Action nerds, stay tuned.

Prinny: Can I Really Be The Hero? Yup. That’s the title of a new drop from NIS America, an action game based on the familiar, suffering penguin-things from the Disgaea serial.

So, you’re a Prinny. You’re a penguin that can wield swords. That’s the foundation of the game. The rest of it follows through like a classic platform jumper as you jump, slash, double jump, and supermove your way through enemies and bosses. The catch, though, is that the game is super hard, so you get 1,000 lives. That’s a far cry from the three-dudes-is-never-enough days of Contra (without the cheats).

We hear the game looks good, with eye-popping colors and fluid animations. Even the music should get you hooked, as if blowing up 1,000 penguins wasn’t cool enough. Keep your eyes on this one. Prinny: Can I Really Be The Hero? is expected to release on 2/17/2009.