With all of the great titles being released its easy to tell that Christmas is coming up soon. The PSP makes sure to make itself noticed in the Christmas rush. Many great titles will be available within the next few months. Take a look at the list below.

September:
29: Infected
29: Mercury Meltdown
TBC B-Boy
TBC Destiny's End

October:
6:  Capcom Puzzle World
6:  Open Season
13:  Power Stone Collection
20:  Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories
20:  The Sims 2: Pets
27:  Blade Dancer: Lineage of Light
27:  Ford Street Racing: LA Duel
27:  Metal Slug Anthology
TBC Rengoku II: The Stairway to H.E.A.V.E.N.

November:
3:  Need For Speed: Carbon
3: Scooby Doo! Who's Watching Who
10: Capcom Classic Collection Reloaded
10: Thrillville
10: WWE SmackDown vs. RAW 2007
17: BattleZone
TBC Brothers In Arms: D-Day
TBC Dave Mirra BMX Challenge
TBC Dungeon Siege: Throne of Agony
TBC Eragon
TBC Football Manager 2007
TBC Hard Rock Casino
TBC Legend of the Dragon
TBC NBA '07
TBC Pro Evolution Soccer 6
TBC Scarface: Money. Power. Respect.
TBC Test Drive Unlimited
TBC The Hustle: Detroit Streets

Being one of the more anticipated games to be released for the PSP, Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters has had a good deal of screenshots released recently. Today we have here another five for you! The game does not come out until early 2007; hopefully, these screens help the wait.

There are rumors of the game actually having a 4 player multiplayer WiFi mode, which if realized, will totally tip the scales of awesomeness! The graphics look great and the game play is supposed to be up to par with the earlier titles in the franchise. If you would like to find out more about this upcoming game read Christopher C.'s article [Here]. Without further delay, here are the screens for you.

Two new Bomberman games will be exploding onto game consoles this year.  One will be Bomberman: Act Zero for the Xbox 360, which will feature a completely updated look and feel to the game bringing Bomberman into the 21st Century.  The other will be Bomberman Portable for the PSP which will stick to the classic gameplay that we all love sporting the same old look with graphical improvements.  Bomberman Portable will also include up to four player multiplayer using game sharing.  The game will have two main modes, normal and classic mode, with a combined total of over 150 levels.  The release is set for July 20th this year in Japan.  This game is sure to be a hit, we will just have to sit and wait to see when it will reach America.


Download: [Bomberman Portable Japanese Trailer]

Big news for the PSP Emulation scene today.  A new Gameboy Advance emulator was released in our very own QJ.net Forums.  Here are the updates for you.

- Better Speed
- Add new render modes (scanline)
- Add FPS/CPU statistics
- The Start key is now usable
- Sound off increase speed
- Many bug fix
- Big Code cleaning

Two binary versions of the emulator (for 2.0 and 1.5) and sources are included in the zip archive.  Also the game does not work with the Tiff exploit for those of you trying to run it on newer firmware (2.0).  You will have to use the GTA exploit.

This emulator was created by Zx-81, with a help from Tommydanger on the 2.0 firmware debugging.

Download: [PSPVBA v1.0.3]

Yet another installment of the Tekken series is to be released for the PSP July 6th in Japan, and in the summer for the States. But if you can't hold out that long, you're in luck! The official Japanese trailer for Tekken: Dark Resurrection was just posted on Sony's Japanese website for the PSP.  It's short, but shows off some gameplay footage - no pre-rendered nonsense here, all actual action. The graphics are amazing and will feature online play, which always make an appealing package for gamers! It will also include two new characters, totaling over 30.  You may feast your eyes upon this beauty with the link below:

View: [Tekken: Dark Resurrection Trailer]

D3Publisher of America has been working on a new PSP title named Dead Head Fred.  Fred here, has lost his head, and will have to take on the big town mob boss, and an army of zombies to get it back. The game is to be action packed, funny, original, and it will include 12 mini-games.  Finally a game for the PSP that might be worth playing, and is not just a port from another console.  The release date at this current moment in time is the January 16th, 2007. If you would like to learn a little bit more about Dead Head Fred, read the QJ.net Preview.  Here is the trailer for you, enjoy.

Recently you have been hearing about work being done on getting out an easy to install modchip, that would allow you to run multiple firmware versions on the same PSP, and probably do many more things. Such modchip has yet to be released though, and PSP fanboys are growing anxious. As a solution to this problem, they made their own! Here we have four successful attempts to run multiple firmware versions on the same PSP. Now they aren't as pretty as the modchip that will be eventually released, but these bad boys still work, and also gave a sense of accomplishment. 

Designed by 0okm


Designed by ryoko_no_usagi


Designed by BOOSTER and friends


Designed by Nem

What a suprise, yet another Tony Hawk game.  They just don't ever seem to end, huh?  Well the next installment in this immortal franchise is Tony Hawk Project 8.  It will be a cross platform game, obviously different game play from the PSP to the Xbox 360. This time around a whole new physics system will be issued, including a new grinding system.  Also in Tony Hawk Project 8 there will be more challenges than in any other version before.  A photographer/video recorder element will be added as well.  Finally pedestrians will have a part in the game - isn't that what we've all been waiting for? (No really, I'm asking) You will have to preform tricks to impress the crowd, to build up respect, and not get punched in the gut.  You can check out some of the concept art below.  The release date is right now set for Fall 2006.

   
  

A new version of Boxy II has just hit the streets, which is being diligently worked on by Ghoti.   Just to let you know, it is NOT a Lua game! With the confusion now aside, there have been quite a few updates.

• Chaos game mode added
• add option to turn on/off music playing
• add option to turn the chaos mode to random or classic theme changing
• at pause the music also pauses
• at pause the time also pauses
• new skin (Cards)
• new skin (reptile)
• after quit the game through select first you'll get the game over screen to fill in the highscore
• Random music mode
• with normal music mode pressing L goes one song back
• (when music is turned off in the options screen the game won't crash on the account of not being present any mp3 songs.)
• randomly crash on next theme fixed.
• options bug reads correctly now
• premature deletion of blocks when line was not beyond that point is fixed.
• bugfix special block
• fixed the black screen bug

Now with all of the amazing updates that have been included, there still are a few bugs in the game. This is not the final release so don't worry, but if you do find any bugs please let Ghoti know by letting him know.  Thanks for the update Ghoti!

Download : [Boxy II Version 0.4]

Yup, a new build for the much talked about Nintendo 64 emulator has just been released moments ago. StrmnNrmn has released the official Daedalus R5 Emulator with many improvements.  Here is the change log from StrmnNrmn himself.

    [+] New DynaRec engine, resulting in significant performance improvements
    [+] New front end - ability to toggle a couple of options (more to come)
    [+] Save game first pass (eeprom4k, eeprom16k and mempak)
    [^] Various interpreting engine optimisations
    [~] Use .png file format for background images, save ~380KB
    [~] Stripped out unnecessary code, save ~250KB

From the looks of it, there seems to be about a 2-3 frames per second of improvement on average.  Not to shabby if you ask me.  This is yet again a huge movement in the Nintendo 64 emulation scene.  Try out your favorite Roms and tell them how they work, if they work and the frames per second.  StrmnNrmn once again thinking about his fans has released two different versions of his excellent emulator, and the source if you want to fiddle around with it.  Thanks for the brilliant emulator StrmnNrmn.

Download: [Source Code]
Download: [Version 1.5]
Download: [Version 1.0]