It's been while since we had an update for the excellent homebrew game Powder but recently homebrew coder Jeff Lait has released a new version of the game. The new release is packed with a lot of features that the long delay is truly worth the wait.

Download: Powder Release 111 (PSP)
Download: Powder Release 111 (DS)

It's another week and we were able to get wind of all the new downloadable goodies offered by Sony on the PlayStation Store for the week of August 21. Expect to find a lot of Leipzig-related content once you fire up your browsers, among other things. Check out the complete list of new downloadable content in our full article after the jump.

We decided to drop by ESRB's website to check out some of the games that might be on their way to shelves. Lo and behold, we found out that PlayStation titles such as Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain and Pandemonium were rated for the PSP and the PS3. Could this mean they're on their way to the PSN? Find out more after the jump!

Last week, we had a mammoth of a game release with Devil May Cry 4. It's not going to be any different this time around, with the much-awaited Lost Odyssey by Mistwalker finally making its US debut. Other noteworthy games in this batch are Professor Layton and the Curious Village, Dungeon Explorer: Warriors of Ancient Arts, RPG Maker VX, and a slew of other titles. Hit the full article for the rest of the list.

* Article originally posted Feb 11, 2008 at 01:12AM

It's been a while since we last heard about the Castlevania movie, and now we get news of the ambitious project being postponed due to an ongoing writer's guild strike. Will this game-to-movie adaptation ever see the light of day, or has it been killed outright with a stake to the heart and silver bullets to the spleen? Check out the entire scoop in the full article.

Back in October, Paul W.S. Anderson shared that production for the long-planned Castlevania movie adaptation will soon go full swing. Prior to all this, it was believed that the story of the Castlevania movie project will revolve around a knight from Transylvania hiding from the Turkish Army in Dracula's castle.

Well, you can all forget about that as the official plot of the movie has just been revealed. The plot after the jump!

PSPs in North America will be bathed in some vampire blood this Fall as Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles gets released around that time. To help you tide you Castlevania fans over, here are four new screenshots of the game courtesy of French gaming website JeuxFrance.

   

Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles will be a three-in-one punch of vampire-killing goodness. Getting the focus here is a re-tooled and powered-up Rondo of Blood, a Castlevania title that never made it to U.S. shores before. Apart from the usual enhanced graphics and a few storyline tweaks, this remake is pretty much a straight port.

Rounding out the threesome are unlockable versions of the original Rondo of Blood and Symphony of the Night, with the latter getting better voice acting.

What does this post offer to a movie buff and a Gurumin fan? A boxload of treasures, that's what! We have here for you four new movies from Gurumin: A Monstrous Adventure, all ready for download at the mere click of a button.

The four movie feature Parin's vampire and monkey costumes, fire parts for the Legendary Drill, and the Pierre summon. It's only been out for a couple of days, so it's still pretty much fresh and hot off the developing studios. But still, that does not mean you can't get a hold of any other new stuff on it. So, here you go. Four movies in one  post. Really, this can't get any better than this.

Unless, of course, you actually get the game for yourself.

Download: [Album_Cat]
Download: [Monkey_Poco]
Download: [Pierre_Box]
Download: [Vampire]

We like RPGs, Vin Diesel likes RPGs, and we can assure you both groups of people we just mentioned are suckers for a good D&D game. And if you've been watching just how many trailers we've been popping up here for the upcoming Dungeons and Dragons title for the PSP, you'll know we're very interested in what the game offers to geeks like us who like our RPG's the way we like our women - sophisticated, intelligent, and in their 20's (D20's, that is).

With that in mind, we picked up an short interview Gaming Nexus conducted on Eric Grossman, Atari's producer for D&D Tactics for the PSP. Eric was very excited to be talking about this installment, all the more with its rich heritage and the strong fanbase behind the franchise. The game, according to Eric, will be based on the D&D 3.5 ed rule set. To give some of you guy an idea of what it might look like on a tabletop, Eric also gave some examples of game scenarios:

"Anastriana attempts to make a Hide check at the current location
Rolled a 3 on a d20
Anastriana has a skill rank of 4 in this skill. Revised Skill check = 7
Key ability modifier of 1 applied. Revised Skill check = 8
Total miscellaneous modifiers of 0 applied. Revised Skill check = 8
Skill check 8 fails against DC 10
Hide check failed"

The gameplay calculates these factors for you in-game, so those with an aversion for numbers will be happy to know that all they have to do is play, and the game's engine runs everything else.

More on the interview details after this jump!

Pre-Order: [Dungeons and Dragons Tactics]

After releasing CPS2PSP v1 two days ago and then fixing some of its bugs yesterday with the updated romcnv.exe v6, NJ is back in the limelight (is he ever away from it?) with the release of the PSP homebrew emulator's source code. Yes the source code is now out there.

NJ's CPS2PSP emulator has been hailed by many QJ readers as heaven sent. The CPS2PSP emulates
the now classic CPS-2, or Capcom Play System 2. The CPS-2 is an arcade system board introduced by Capcom in1993.

The list of games released for CPS-2 is a virtual list of the best video game franchises ever developed including Super Street Fighter, Rockman, Dungeons and Dragons and more.

Download: [CPS2PSP Source Code]