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A PSP version of the highly anticipated PC game Spore was confirmed way back in 2006. Now, years later, the company is silent. Although we have seen Spore on the Nintendo DS, that version is actually completely different than its PC origin. Really, the fact that the game has yet to make its way to the PSP is quite logical, seeing as even some beefed up PC systems had problems playing the game smoothly; so we can hardly be able to expect the Playstation Portable to handle it. Nevertheless, a promise is a promise, and until a Spore PSP version is officially denied, we can keep hoping. In the mean, we’ll offer a look at the PC game that is causing all the hype.

As you play Spore on the PC, you assume the role of as a microbe, and go through five stages ranging from microbiotic to the intergalactic. You have just two choices – you kill or not. As a microbe with teeth, you have a choice of killing of just being a vegetarian. As you go through the process of evolution, you evolve to dry land from the primordial soup. Here again, you have a choice between killing or befriending things by singing little songs to them.

As a society is formed with important decisions such as the kind of buildings to have in the first village, your choice is to kill or feed tangles of mouths and legs with plates of oranges. As you move on to a civilized location, your choice is between building machines that kill or maraca factories.

Surprisingly, the non violent aspect of this game is extremely interesting, in fact, even more interesting than killing a creature by just clicking on it. As the lizard plays dead for your amusement, copy a bipedal lizard with many fangs to show that you are not different. Make a bag of eyes your bitch by dancing for it.

There are five addictive and simple sub-games offering players with a stream of new and exciting stuff. Excitement is offered not by swords but with body parts. For instance, you can inspect a skeleton on the beach to evolve a new beak. You can electrify your body by eating a blue, feral kangaroo. Each time you befriend or kill, you earn a DNA point which you can use for mutation.

Mutation process again offers fun and excitement. Have hours of fun designing the most awesome demented creatures and try to animate them with the game. Make it dance, eat, fight and walk, even mate. Creating species is fun and extremely addictive. In fact the Spore PC/Mac version starts with one of your germ species crashes into a cracked open meteor in the sea. You have to flee from spiky, nasty and big things in the water. However, as you eat a lot, your creature swells enough to make your huge hunter a small prey.

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As a successor of the Harvest Moon series, Innocent Life: A Futuristic Harvest Moon is a pleasant and fun-filled game, designed to give you the feeling of starting life afresh. There are actually many reasons to like the Harvest Moon games, be it on account of the great gameplay, amazing graphics or interesting plots. The publisher Natsume has incorporated all these features, along with using a captivating story, in this latest PSP title.

The Innocent Life takes players to an isolated island like other Harvest Moon titles. So what is so new about the game? Well this time around the island is futuristic and allows you to control life in an era that is yet to come. If you find the story a little complicated in the beginning, I advice you to be patient because it is only a short phase. Beginning in the year 2002, the Harvest Moon: Innocent Life (PSP) takes you to a small and scarcely populated island named Heartflame. However, you are not one of these residents; instead you play a robot created by Dr. Hope. As a robot, you have the privilege of revealing all those areas that are hazardous to humans, such as the island’s ominous volcano. Robots are made to work, so you start your mission to help the residents in solving the mystery of the volcano. Another important task for you is to update the farming knowledge of the innocent inhabitants.

If your playing skills are good enough to solve the gem system, you will be able to unlock the seals surrounding the island. This will open a way to many new places for you to explore a lot more. The concrete graphics and friendly controls are among the other favorable points of Innocent Life. Above all, the futuristic theme is the strongest motivator to make the game worth-playing.

The game is overall out of the ordinary, and includes the usual charm of the Harvest Moon series. You will experience a great thrill in the role of a robot, doing grid-based cultivation and communicating with the humans. He is actually a machine with a heart, made to match the challenges of the future.

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Here’s some great news, at least it looks like it now, because Sony has decided that the PSP is considered to survive as a 10 yr- cycle product. That would kill anyone’s suspicions about the future of the PSP. Most importantly you don’t have to worry your PSP is going to become obsolete any time soon.

Research suggests that home consoles average around six years before a replacement has to come along, so the 10 years that Sony aims for is rather ambitious. But it still is a possibility considering the PSP’s raging popularity.

Senior PSP marketing manager John Koller is reported to have shared regarding this aspect with IGN:

“We look at it just like our console business being a ten-year cycle, but we do see iterations as we go along to really adjust to the market. What we’ve done is the 2000 series adjusted to the market in terms of making it more portable. What we’re seeing now, at least in the near- to mid-term, is going to be firmware updates that add features and other functions that the consumer’s asked for.”

“We obviously had the 1000, we have the 2000, so the PSP as it was first launched in March 2005 isn’t going to the be the PSP that it ends up as in ten years, but it will still be a very strong portable gaming device that is centred in gaming and has a lot of multi-functional features.”

Sony has already demonstrated its intent and seriousness of the this bit of news with the release of the PSP-2000 (Slim & Lite) — a range of firmware updates offering everything from internet radio to phone calls and add-ons such as GPS, now it’s more than possible to improve features without releasing a whole new bit of Hardware.

The big question now is if the target is a tad unrealistic? Will Sony be able to stick to it in the midst of the competition releasing new handheld consoles?

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The PSP is a little Monster, it plays games; enables one to watch movies (UMD); allows you to watch videos, helps you find information online, check email, download songs, act like an MP3 player and much more. Look at ‘homebrew’ and ‘hacks’ and there will be a lot more the PSP is “made” to do.

Lately, it has been checking for fresh video content to be downloaded; new skins come into play; new hacks to accessorize the PSP are created; games are released every now and then; just where does it all stop? Some of you might reason with us as to why anything about the PSP must stop at all — you are right. Not withstanding the huge popularity the PSP enjoys and given the fact that it is still a top gaming device in Japan should see it on forever.

Discussions have been born based on all of the above and beyond –Sony has asked about the ruthless hacking done all over the world and converting the PSP into all things digital — it can even work like a GPS or as a long distance ( international) calling device when you use Skype headsets with it.

The point is — will this momentum be on or will it fade? Will a new release by Sony’s competitors and other big players like Microsoft, Nintendo take away the PSPs luster (Nintendo’s DS lite is already close with regards to units sold). Where is the PSP headed from here? What is about to come to us? If PSP is history, what — in the name of god- is the future?

Beats us! So we quit thinking about the past and the future and revel in the pixel rich present. We would like to see more of these games coming and would like to see more Monster Hunters to glorify the PSP. More hacks; more home brews; more skins and more ideas. The PSP is here to rule and when better things come, as they will. We will see what’s to be done.

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