In Japan, Mario Kart had enjoyed top spot on the charts until Monster Hunter for the PSP took the top spot after MK spent 5 weeks at the top. Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G managed to sell 53,000 units in Japan while Mario Kart sold 42,000, still a very impressive feat. Monster Hunter had been nipping...

The PSP absolutely reigned for the month of April in Japan with sales nearly doubling the DS. Figures for the PSP equate to 380,000 units while the DS came in with 170,000, that's a ratio of 2 to 1 in the PSP's favour according to Japanese magazine publisher, Enterbrain. Having said all that...

For what seems to be a reoccurring theme in Japan lately, the Sony PSP has beaten out all other competitors in sales charts in Japan for the past week. It managed to sell 85,000 units which is a drop in sales on past weeks but still nearly doubles that of the Nintendo DS, its nearest rival, on 47,000...

Check out the list below to see what's being released for your console of choice this week. Wii April 17- Kidz Sports Baseball April 17- Kidz Sports Ice Hockey April 17- Impossible Mission Xbox 360 April 17- UEFA Euro 2008 DS April 17 - Ferrari Challenge April 18 - Neves April 18 - The World Ends...

More wacky news from Japan, a surver recently was conducted to determine what percentage of males and females used Sony's PSP and Nintendo's DS as their portable hardware of choice. Interesting results below with the pie graph. It appears that most men used the PSP while the ladies prefer the...

Reported lately in this fine publication was the news that the PSP was doing great business in Japan due to Monster Hunter being released bunping up sales. Well, the Blu-ray behemoth, the PS3 has now finally passed the 2 million mark in Japan making it another good week for Sony. The PSP managed to sell...

With the spate of original homebrew and underground independent game development happening for the Wii and the PS3, Chris Satchell XNA Group Manager at Microsoft fired off the following salvos at Nintendo, Sony and Apple. "I think there's a potential risk on any platform where you're allowing...

Rockers from yesteryear, Def Leppard, have new content to bring to their fans and what better way to get a worldwide release than to release the new songs as part of downloadable content for Guitar Hero. This is the first time a band has used this system to get their songs out there and to debut them...

For those in the know (ahem!), you'll be pleased to know that forthcoming Ghostbusters game now has its very own site which can be found right here . The site unfortunately doesn't offer up any new information apart from we've seen so far which is the different consoles it'll be making...

Fans of another retro classic alien shooter, Space Invaders, would know about the recent remakes on both the Nintendo DS and the Sony PSP. Below for your enjoyment is a live video of the PSP running its version of the shooter with crazy graphics and action a-plenty. Space Invaders Extreme on Nintendo...