While we knew a while back that you could pre-order Resistance: Retribution for PSP from Amazon, we now know that you can also pre-order from GameStop. It’s nice to have a choice. What’s cool is that pre-ordering will also enable you to utilize a voucher code that you’ll receive in order to download a Resistance: Retribution demo game. The official release for the full version of Resistance: Retribution is still listed as March 17th.

A neat thing about the new Resistance: Retribution demo is that it allows you test the Connect feature, which many fans have been looking forward to. Follow…

The teeming underground over at PSPHyper have peeped some fan chatter that indicates that a game based on the popular manga .hack//Link will soon arrive for the Sony PSP.

A listing appeared in this week’s Dengeki PlayStation Magazine, which shows the title in a release schedule categorizing the game as an ARPG. Preliminary reports indicate that its developer is CyberConnect, who has masterminded the development of most of the .hack games heretofore.

There’s a mysterious countdown on the CyberConnect2 website which ends in 2 days; we’ll let you know its relevance as more news drops closer to the T minus 0. As…

The bodacious dudes over at Square Enix have announced via a global press release that Europe and PAL territories will receive the first copies of Star Ocean: Second Evolution on February 13th of this year. North America is slated to receive the game a few days earlier, so everyone should be happily glued to their screens by midmonth.

If you haven’t already, you’ll want to kick your quota of butts in First Departure prior to the release of Star Ocean: Second Evolution, so that you’ll be sure to have a clear schedule in order to tackle what’s shaping up to be…

True fans of the Final Fantasy series, and followers of its development company, Square Enix, have been eagerly awaiting for the drop of Dissidia: Final Fantasy in their own language. Korea wins out, getting the first version in Korean on January 20th. Along with the game, fans will receive free desktop calendars if they initiate a valid pre-order between January 12th and January 14th.

Square Enix and SCEA know how eagerly their American fans are awaiting the release of this game, so maybe they’ll do some kind of rad promotional thing on our behalf, too. We’d like to see something with…

Disaster Report 3, the adventure game waiting in the clutches of its developers for a full-blown stateside and East Asian release, is kicking up some momentum for itself by leaking some of its pre-release game screenshots. Irem has posted some new screens on its website, wherein you can witness the characters Naoki and Saki struggling to escape the city that’s bursting into flames and shrapnel and stuff in front of their eyes.

Fans of the series have been sweating this release for a long time, so these new screens should give them something to think about. Newbs to the game will…