The Pocket Gamer Blog

How we got to shout Objection! in Phoenix Wright

It’s always nice to get some background information to how a game was made, so it’s well worth checking out Minae Matsukawa’s new blog over on the Ace Attorney website. She’s...

DS Starcraft homebrew comes to an abrupt end

It was bound to happen sooner or later but unfortunately for fans of the game and well-wishers of the Starlite project (a homebrew DS version of Starcraft) that time is sooner. Posting just a brief...

DS Starcraft homebrew comes to an abrubt end

It was bound to happen sooner or later but unfortunately for fans of the game and well-wishers of the Starlite project (a homebrew DS version of Starcraft) that time is sooner. Posting just a brief...

Don’t slap PSP owners in the face over Assassin’s Creed Ubisoft

It seems that PSP owners are feeling a little left out that Ubisoft has confirmed Assassin’s Creed is coming to DS but not PSP. And, as is the way of the online world, they’re started up...

The ugliest and most shameful PSP mod ever

We have covered our fare share of frankenconsole screw and solder jobs on this blog but this has surely got to take the cake for the most perverse. Behold, a PSP crossed with an Xbox 360 controller,...

Mario Kart DS power-sliding towards 3 millionth Japanese sale

Whatever you think about their devotion to raw fish (let alone whale meat), you have to admire the Japanese fascination with handheld gaming. The latest charts are stacked with such titles (6 out of...

Is Advance Wars: Days of Ruin going to be huge or any good?

The year hasn’t really got underway yet, so it’s hardly a big deal to say Advance Wars: Dark Conflict/Days of Ruin will be the most high profile release of 2008 to date when it’s...

God of War: Chains of Olympus Metacritic score lower but still PSP highest

We’re still keeping our beady eye on the simExchange trading for the Metacritic score of God of War: Chains of Olympus. It’s dropped from its IPO float price of 98 to 91.77 (i.e. 92)....

Mario Party DS was fastest selling Japanese game of 2007

The figures are in for the Japanese games market in 2007, and what a buoyant 12 months it was, with total sales up 10 percent to 688 billion Yen (£3.2bn), of which £1.5bn was hardware and £1.7bn was...

PSP gets Tannoy loudspeaker - parents everywhere grimmace

It seems like this is going to be the week for PSP peripherals. Yesterday we had the PSP Solar Battery pack and today we have the much less wacky PSP Tannoy speaker system. The system has a dock that...