With just a few days left before its U.S. release, we're back with even more screens to add to your already built-up anticipation for Ace Combat X: Skies of Deception.

Skies of Deception is the first PSP title from Namco's flight simulation series, and based on your response to our previous articles, we can tell that this is really one of the games that you can't wait to get your hands on. Can't really blame you there, what with the detailed jet models, options for fine tuning, jet customization, and an original storyline, heck it might just be even better than flying a real jet!

Also, with the Strategic AI System and the multiplayer mode for up to four players, we just keep finding more and more reasons to make this game's sales figures skyrocket when its released on October 17th. You know what, why don't we just bring you the stuff that you came here for in the first place, eh? Whaddya think? Alright then, on to the screens!

Buy: [Ace Combat X: Skies of Deception]

 

More screens await after the jump!

Namco Bandai's Bounty Hounds have kept us tied around its fingers since last year. Who wouldn't be? With its incredible images and gripping storyline, all the delays seem like coquettish games, planned to keep us all the more entranced.

Firmware 2.80 users will have the chance to take on the role of Maximilian, leader of the no mercy group of mercenaries, Bounty Hounds. The group is at war against an alien race called ETI (Extraterrestrial Intelligence) over the colonization of new interplanetary territories while trying to find habitable planets that humans can live in, with this downloadable demo for the game.

Maybe 2.80 users can fill us in on the good and bad points of this game. Submit a game review on MyPSPUpdates perhaps? But, before we get ahead of ourselves, click on the download link first to access the playable demo.

Download: [Bounty Hounds Playable Demo]

Robots in space nuking it out with each other over a 24-hour period in a fit of survival and desperation? Sounds like a Japanese movie we know (and a movie Quentin Tarantino oh-so recommends), but Gundam Battle Royale is hardly anything like the Japanese movie hinted at by the game's title. It's actually a follow up to last year's Gundam Battle Tactics, and lots of you Gundam fans are sure to find lots of familiar faces and robots here.

Despite this, there's going to be a heck of a lot more war bots, special attacks, high powered weapons, and customizable equipment to be had. And now it's on the PSP, gamers get to hook up via ad hoc mode and do co-op battles of up to four players. Sounds fun, yeah?

There's still not much info about it, even though Bandai Namco will release the game in Japan by October. Heck, no one even seems to know it it will be released for the US. So, we're sticking it out and we'll bring you more updates as they come along.

 

The CESA announced the winners of its annual Japan Game Awards at a ceremony at the Tokyo Game Show (TGS 2006). Over half the winners were from handheld gaming systems! Japan really loves handhelds as you can see. This is good news for the DS and PSP.

Grand Award
Dr Kawashima' s Brain Training: How Old Is Your Brain? (NDS, Nintendo)
Final Fantasy XII (PS2, Square Enix)

Award for Excellence
Animal Crossing: Wild World (NDS, Nintendo)
Kingdom Hearts 2 (PS2, Square Enix)
Tamagotchi Corner Shop (NDS, Namco Bandai)
Tales of the Abyss (PS2, Bandai Namco)
Nintendogs (Dachshund, Shiba & Chihuahua) (NDS, Nintendo)
Mario Kart DS (NDS, Nintendo)
Monster Hunter 2 (PS2, Capcom)
Rryu-ga-gotoku [Yakuza] (PS2, Sega)
Shadow of the Colossus (PS2, Sony)

Best Sales Award
Animal Crossing: Wild World (NDS, Nintendo)

Global Award: Japanese Product
Nintendogs (Dachshund, Shiba & Chihuahua) (NDS, Nintendo)

Global Award: Foreign Product
World of Warcraft (PC, Blizzard)

Special Awards
Monster Hunter Portable (PSP, Capcom)
English Training: Have Fun Improving Your Skills (NDS, Nintendo)

The DS and PS2 were the big winners at the awards show. The PSP and PC also made it on the list. Blizzard in particular must be glad to see that their game is making such a splash in a market that's regarded as almost impossible to crack by Western developers. Congrats to all the winners!

As you guys probably know, Japan continues to be one of the few markets that the Sony's handheld still hasn't fully infiltrated. The DS still dominates the Japanese market and PSP titles haven't been making it to the top of the country's charts...until recently, that is.

PSPworld reports that Tales of Phantasia: Full Voice Edition for the PSP has just sold 66,263 copies, topping the DS title New Super Mario Bros. which sold 53,011 copies. Tales of Phantasia, which is a port of a Super Nintendo game, is only the second PSP title to make it to the top of Japanese video game sales charts. The first ever PSP title to snag the top position in the Japanese charts was Namco Bandai’s SD Gundam G Generation Portable, and this was way back in August. PSPworld also reports that 29,141 PSP consoles were sold. We're not pro-PSP anti-DS people, but hopefully, the Japanese market becomes more open to PSP titles for the sake of variety.

We previously released a file that contained the list of games that'll be making an appearance at the Tokyo Game Show. Unfortunately for most of us who don't have much Nihonggo skills to show for, looking through that list didn't do us any good. So, here's a list of the games for the PSP, DS, Xbox 360 and PLAYSTATION 3 in English. However, not every one of these games will be released in North America. It's just they're in English. Oh you know what I mean. Here's the juicy list.

PSP Games	Developer
Ace Combat X: Skies of Deception	Bandai-Namco
Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology	Bandai-Namco
Tales of Phantasia: Full Voice Edition	Bandai-Namco
Bounty Hunters	Bandai-Namco
Gundam Battle Royal	Bandai-Namco
Gunpey Reverse	Bandai-Namco
The Doko demo Gal Mahjong	D3 Publisher
Daito Giken Koushiki Pachislot Simulator Yoshimune	Daito
Blokus Club Portable with Bumpy Trot	IREM
Mahjong Fight Club National Competition Version	Konami
Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops	Konami
Metal Gear Solid Bande Dessinee	Konami
J League Winning Eleven 10 + Europe League 06-07	Konami
Silent Hill Origins	Konami
Valhalla Knights	Marvelous Interactive
Fish Eyes Portable	Marvelous Interactive
Pilot Academy	Marvelous Interactive
Homestar: 21st Century Navigator	Sega
Sony Computer Science Kenkyuushitsu Kenichiro Mogi Hakase Kanshuu Nou ni Kaiketsu Aha Taiken!	Sega
Ore no Dungeon: Desire and Adventurous Spirit	Sega
Lost Regnum	Sega
Metal Slug Complete	SNK
Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core	Square-Enix

The full list awaits after the jump!

The Tokyo Game Show is coming up and Bandai Namco has announced what titles they'll be showing at Japan's biggest gaming event! Many of their biggest franchises will be at the show so there's a bit of something for everybody. Bandai and Namco are merged, but we'll list their titles by which company is developing it.

PlayStation 3
Mobile Suit Gundam: Target in Sight (Bandai)
Ridge Racer 7 (Namco)

PlayStation 2
Battle Stadium D.O.N. (Bandai)
.hack//G.U. Vol.2 (Bandai)
Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2 (Bandai)
Captain Tsubasa (Bandai)
JoJo's Bizzare Adventure: Phantom Blood (Bandai)
Naruto: Konoha Spirits (Bandai)
Digimon Savers: Another Mission (Bandai)
Rider Kabuto (Bandai)
Gundam Seed Destiny: Rengou vs Z.A.F.T. II Plus (Bandai)
Tales of Destiny 2 (Namco)

PlayStation Portable
Gundam: Battle Royale (Bandai)
Gunpey-R (Bandai)
Tales of Phantasia: Full Voice Edition (Namco)
Ridge Racer 2 (Namco)
Bounty Hounds (Namco)
Ace Combat X: Skies of Deception (Namco)
Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology (Namco)

Nintendo DS
Tamagotchi: Corner Shop 2 (Bandai)
Gintama DS: Yorozuya Daisoudou (Bandai)
Gunpey-R (Bandai)
Tales of the Tempest (Namco)

GameCube
Battle Stadium D.O.N. (Bandai)

Xbox 360
Culdcept Saga (Bandai)
Mobile Suit Gundam: Operation: Troy (Bandai)
The Idol Master (Namco)
Trusty Bell (Namco)

Took quite some time to get all that from Japanese into English! Bandai Namco is just churning out title after titles, especially titles with "Gundam" and "Tales of" in their names! According to this list, they aren't showing any of their Wii games. Weird considering the PS2 version of Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi is being shown. Guess it won't make launch after all.

It seems like Bandai Namco is trying their best to make their most popular series more appealing. Avid players of the the Tales series might recall familiar faces from Tales of Phantasia and Symphonia when they get to play Tales of the World. And for fans of the game, it's like going on a trip down memory lane.

From Tales of Phantasia, Chester Barklight will reappear to help you in battles. For those who are not in the know, Chester Barklight is an archer who provides great support from a distance. Lloyd Irving and Raine Saige from Tales of Symphonia are also expected to make an appearance in the said game.  For Tales of Symphonia fans, Lloyd Irving is known as a great tanker who provides great attacks. Of course a team is not complete if it doesn't have a healer, thus you can expect Raine Sage to come to your rescue whenever you need healing during battle.

Of course, these are just the announced characters from the game. It is possible that you will also encounter other characters during your gameplay, so you might want to stay on a lookout for those. 

What is Gundam Battle Royale all about? Is this the story of the craziest Gundam pilots sent to some unknown planet and galaxy where they fight it out for twenty four hours until only one of them is left? As much as we'd like to speculate its ultimately catchy title, the only thing that Bandai Namco tells us is that we will be seeing familiar faces in this game as well as a new battle ability called 'Charge Actions.'

Charge conduct works a like a limit break. For those familiar with Gundam games, this is the moment wherein you maximize your power and do every charged combo that you can do with the amount of SP that you have. There are 4 charged attacks that you can do in the game. The first is SP Attack wherein you do a high powered attack, preferably something long-ranged. The next attack is the Charge grapple which lets you grab your enemy and throw him into space, a perfect way to begin an aerial combo. Charge Shooting strengthens your equipment, allowing you to shoot more with a larger range. The last attack is Charge Boost which lets you boost your speed as you follow your enemies in space.

We haven't heard much from this game since E3 but friendly developers Namco have given IGN a sneak preview of their upcoming PSP title MotoGP. The PS2 racer shows its worth on the PSP, with stunning graphics and a great physics engine with the ability to mimic what you would have played on the PS2 version shows just how much effort has been put into the game, cramming as much as they can on a single UMD to make this live up to the rest of the games in the MotoGP series.

The racing field is filled with other racers, creating an always-hectic race environment, tracks spiral off into the horizon and everything in front of you is still visible despite the somewhat limited power of the PSP compared to it's bigger brother. Of course, due to the way the PSP is laid out the only thing that can go wrong is trying to get the controls to work properly. With only one small analog stick, you cannot accelerate or brake with it but the turning motion is good.

The game will include 50 different challenges, each with its own set of rewards. One challenge might have you beat a single rider at an event, while another may have you navigate a tricky portion of a track at blazing speeds - which we're sure you'll enjoy. For each challenge you complete, you'll earn new bikes, gear, suits or some other goodies to customize your game. The game is due to ship to the US sometime next month.