PSP Galaxy is without a doubt one of the many PSP magazines out there that has gained much popularity in the handheld-loving community. Now on their 17th issue, PSP Galaxy and Play-Asia brings us yet another treat loaded with tons of game goodies including previews and reviews of your favorite PSP games.

Included in this month's issue also is a movie review of Casino Royale and a PC review of Sam & Max: Episode 2. So if you loved the previous issue, you'll be glad to know that there'll be even more stuff to look forward to in this issue including the following:

• Interview with Scott Ramsoomair, the man behind web-comic VGCats
• Reviews of Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops, Brothers in Arms: D-Day, Eragon, Mortal Kombat Unchained, Sega Genesis Collection and more!
• PC Review of Sam & Max: Episode 2: Situation: Comedy
• Movie Review of "Casino Royale"
• New exclusive Gamers Galaxy comic! Writer: Terranova, Artist: Evilution
• Return of all your favourites - Mof vs. Prime, Terranova's Japanese R&D, Prime's Rant, Movie Watch, Cooking with Mof and all the latest news!
  

They have also given the mag a little tweak and redesigned it a bit, so if you wanna check out all these and more, just click on the download link below and you're good to go.

Download: [PSP Galaxy Issue #17]

If you're the type that eats blood and gore for breakfast, then get a generous serving with Midway Games' Mortal Kombat: Unchained. Yes folks, what's old is new again as the latest in the series of Mortal Kombat fighting games has been released exclusively for the PSP. The game will be very similar to the Mortal Kombat: Deception series you've come to enjoy on the Xbox, PS2, and GameCube.

Six bad-ass characters exclusive to the PSP version including Kitana, Blaze, Goro and Shao Kahn, will show-off their deadly moves. Another PSP-exclusive is the Endurance Mode, where players go head-to-head with an all-star cast of Mortal Kombat fighters.

Mortal Kombat: Unchained will also make use of the PSP's Wi-Fi's capabilities for death matches against other players, as well as for multiplayer mini-games.

Today is the beginning of the week and as the QJ staff struggle to fit through the office door after a long weekend you, our faithful readers and gamers get to come home to a wealth of releases this week. This week we can see some big titles coming to the PSP, Nintendo DS and the original Xbox, but as a slight disappointment to owners of Microsoft's next generation console there will be no Xbox 360 releases this week.

If you find yourself very bored with no new X360 releases this week you may just have to brave it and buy a portable game to satisfy your needs and with plenty of PSP and DS titles hitting the shelves this week you'll be spoilt for choice. Or maybe an Xbox title takes your fancy? Don't worry next generation console fans, with the Wii and the PS3 well on their way it won't be that long until we'll see three next generation consoles on this list! We'll stop teasing you now, here's the cross-console release list for week beginning Monday October 9.

Nintendo DS:
10/09/06 - Clubhouse Games
10/09/06 - Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties
10/10/06 - Avatar: The Last Airbender
10/10/06 - Crash Boom Bang!
10/10/06 - Monster Bomber
10/10/06 - Scooby Doo! Who's Watching Who?
10/12/06 - Disney's American Dragon: Jake Long, Attack of the Dark Dragon

Sony PSP:
10/09/06 - Family Feud
10/09/06 - Mortal Kombat Unchained
10/10/06 - Avatar: The Last Airbender
10/10/06 - Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning

Xbox:
10/09/06 Mortal Kombat Armageddon
10/10/06 Avatar: The Last Airbender
10/10/06 Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning

The Games Convention in Leipzig will be held this week from August 23 - August 27, and publishers have started to release their showcase plans. Now Midway has informed us about their Leipzig line-up, featuring some of those long-awaited first-class titles like Stranglehold and UT 2007 which goes as follows...

Stranglehold (Playstation 3, Xbox 360, PC; Winter 2007) – Experience exhilarating, next-gen action for the PS3, Xbox 360 videogame and entertainment system from Microsoft and PC, as you continue the story of Inspector Tequila from John Woo's influential action film, "Hard Boiled" starring Chow Yun-Fat. Run into danger with both fists full of lead and take down the organized crime bosses who stepped over the line when they took your family. Stop at nothing as you destroy the entire world around you to get them back. You are a desperate man following your own rules; honor thy family; do what's right; fear no man.

Unreal Tournament 2007 (PC, PS3) - The latest entry into the Unreal franchise, Unreal Tournament 2007, is currently in development by Epic Games Inc. Fans will be blown away by the next-generation game play, modifiability and visuals that Epic’s Unreal® Engine 3 technology will bring to the franchise.

The complete line up awaits after the jump!

Can't wait to unleash Fatality on your opponent via the PSP? Neither can we. But we still have to wait this fall for Mortal Kombat: Unchained to grace our PSP's screens. To tide us all over, we have a Mortal Kombat: Unchained trailer for you to enjoy. Now, we're not running short of these Mortal Kombat eye candies, mind you. Previously we gave you another trailer, and a little earlier before that, a bunch of screenshots for your viewing pleasure.

So get some popcorn, grab a seat and enjoy seeing your favorite Mortal Kombat characters in action. This trailer (like the previous one), gives you a sneak peek of the different gameplay modes. One is called "endurance", which pretty much goes by the "fight until you drop dead from exhaustion" principle; another is the RPG-style "konquest" mode, as well as chess and puzzle kombat modes.

More updates (and good stuff like this, hopefully) as we get them.

Download: [Mortal Kombat: Unchained Trailer]

Mortal Kombat: Unchained, the portable version of the 2004 title Mortal Kombat: Deception, comes out this September for the PSP.

This version of Deception will let MK fans kill each other in full 3D while on the go. The game will include lots of the old characters including Scorpion, Sub-Zero, Kitana, and Goro. Unchained will also offer new gameplay modes like endurance and "konquest," which is a single-player mission-based game mode where you interact and fight against non-player characters in a 3D world. The game will even include mini games like puzzle kombat and chess, starring your favorite MK fighters. Rounding out the game's features are wireless multiplayer compatibility and multiple fatalities per fighter.

The new trailer for the game showcases all the different modes and characters available. The trailer is available to download below so go ahead and let us know what you think of this upcoming fighter.

Download:[MK:Unchained Trailer]

Mortal Kombat: Unchained is the portable version of the 2004 title Mortal Kombat: Deception. The PSP version doesn't seem to be light on features either; the screenshots show that you can still switch between fighting styles and that the environments are 3D. Even though these screens look a little on the bland side, I'm sure they will look much better on the PSP's screen in real time instead.



In Unchained, gamers can expect to be able to perform multiple fatalities with characters like Jax, Shao Kahn, and even Goro. The Konquest mode will also be brought over here, as will the mini games. Ad-hoc functionality will be supported as well, so it won't be too long before you're fighting a buddy head to head. Mortal Kombat: Unchained will ship sometime in Fall 2006.