The original Hot Shots Tennis for the PS2 was the victim of being released after Hot Shots Golf: Open Tee for the PSP, which completely raised the bar that a new title couldn’t live up to on its first try. The follow-up to that original tennis title is Hot Shots Tennis: Get a Grip, the [...]

This year’s E3 may be the most important since the 2006 E3 before the launch of the PS3 and Wii since we have a number of hardware announcements that will affect these platforms for the next few years. Sony and Microsoft have new motion control peripherals that are seeking to bring a new audience to [...]

Atlus is back on the PSP with another RPG from the developers behind Knights in the Nightmare and Riviera: The Promised Land. Hexyz Force offers an interesting way to experience the stories of its two main characters, which is to play two separate campaigns to get both sides of the story. While the game may [...]

Since PlayStation Minis in North America aren’t usually widely marketed outside of the occasional posts on the PlayStation Blog, the ESRB’s site is one of the better ways to find out when new Minis are headed our way. This latest batch includes some new games and a few games that we’ve been waiting to hear [...]

With Metal Slug’s arcade days behind it, SNK Playmore has the tough task of trying to figure out where the series should be headed to best serve its style of gameplay. For now, they’ve brought the series to the handhelds with Metal Slug 7 on the DS two years ago and now the PSP with [...]

From time to time, Gamefly’s database is a nice way to find early hints at release dates and physical releases of games that you may not have been expecting. This latest rumor involves two of Sony’s PSN exclusives for the PSP, PixelJunk Monsters Deluxe and Fat Princess: Fistful of Cake being released on UMD at [...]

Following quite a few other remakes of PS1 RPGs, XSeed Games has taken on the task of bringing Lunar: Silver Star Story to the PSP with redone voice acting, music, and visuals. Lunar: Silver Star Harmony attempts to combat the intense nostalgia that many players had for the original version while also offering a chance [...]

2010 is the start of something fresh for all of us: it is the start of a new decade, new resolutions and more importantly plenty of new games to play.  While 2009 had its fair share of popular titles (Arkham Asylum, Modern Warfare 2) and perhaps one of the busiest holiday seasons of recent years, [...]

When you’re not near a TV and PS3, the need to test your knowledge of useless trivia with friends or coworkers and the new Buzz game on the PSP is there to fill that niche. Buzz! Quiz World is the first PSP entry in the series that is supposed to be identical to its PS3 [...]

To be honest, we here at SmashPad are not big fans of the whole Game of the Year concept that every site uses when the end of the year arrives. Rather than getting together to discuss and/or argue about what games should or shouldn’t win the many categories we could come up with so we [...]