In Final Fantasy X, you get to control Tidus traversing through the land of Spira, looking for the monster Sin, and seeking to avenge the destruction of his hometown Zanarkand. As Tidus, you can travel the whole world, through towns and cities, meeting with people as you continue your quest. When you begin to find yourself on track and encounter enemies, you have the flexibility to make decisions, based upon which the computer will switch to the relevant war scene. You will have to travel on foot for a long while, but later in the game use airships to speed up your navigation. When you are rewarded with Aeons, use them to summon special characters, including Yuna, with spells and overdrives to help you attain the well-deserved honor of a warrior in integrity.

Final Fantasy X was received with worldwide success and with great reviews from game world critics, both in Japan and in the rest of the world. The game went on to receive the Best Game award, and become known in the Top 25 Best PS2 Game. The Final Fantasy legend still carries on, by its successors and the other well known PlayStation 2 games, which have changed the course of video gaming.

You may have the original Sony Playstation stashed away safely in your room somewhere, but gaming on the go is the newer way to play, and if you haven’t yet caught on to the Sony PSP (PlayStation Portable), where have you been?!

The stylish portable games console lets you access games, music, videos and photos at any time of day. The PSP also features a TV-out socket for displaying content on a television.  As far as Sony PSP games and accessories go, there’s a mountain to choose from.  If you like a good grapple, you can’t beat Sony PSP’s Tekken: Dark Resurrection.

If you’re not familiar with the Tekken series, it’s about time you looked them up. The arcade style games let you select from an impressive list of diverse characters each with their own fighting style, before you pick your opponent and try to knock their block off.  What better way to pass the time on an otherwise dull train journey, or the miserable morning bus ride to work?

Delivering everything that makes the Tekken series so popular, Sony PSP’s Tekken: Dark Resurrection is an impressive graphical game.   One for the lads, it’s a staple PSP game that ticks all the right boxes.

Fans of spiky-headed favourite Sonic the Hedgehog will no doubt love Sony PSP’s Sonic Rivals.  With high speed thrills, this simple yet staple PSP game combines the old school feel of the Sonic classics with modern graphics and updated features.  Bright, colourful levels with plenty of jumps and loops ensure a rollercoaster ride from start to finish. Providing an interesting twist to the original Sonic game, Sonic Rivals sees Sonic save his friends from classic rival Eggman in a series of one-on-one races.

You’ll be hooked almost as soon as you switch on your PSP.

A game made exclusively for the Sony Playstation portable, Assassin’s Creed: Bloodlines, part of the popular Assassin’s Creed franchise, is a real hit with the boys.  The action-adventure game allows players to free-roam an island at will, all while keeping out of sight of deadly enemies on the way.

Fantasy fans can get a load of Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, based on the film of the same name. Set in the world of Square Enix’s Final Fantasy VII, the game sees Cloud tackle the mystery of the ‘geostigma’, which has become infected by being exposed to the planet’s life stream energy. Cloud and the remaining Final Fantasy VII characters are to lash back at the planet, while saving themselves from destruction. Gripping and addictive, Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children is already storming the gaming charts.

Little Big Planet is the latest Sony PlayStation craze to take the gaming market by storm. Widely regarded as one of the top 10 Sony PSP games, Little Big Planet gives you the chance to step into a world of endless possibilities, where your imagination is key.  You can enhance whatever you see, using your own creativity, while the graphics behind Little Big Planet provide the rest.  Set out with Sackboy and explore a wealth of environments, while overcoming frustrating obstacles in order to build your own creations. The power is firmly in your hands!

Everyone loves a good virtual car chase, so why not check out Grand Theft Auto? Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars is a favourite in the Grand Theft Auto series, where players navigate their way through the streets as they uncover the truth behind a tale of crime and corruption. Gran Turismo, the real driving simulator, also recently made its debut on the Sony PSP. Featuring over 800 car models and 35 tracks, there’s mission and arcade modes to choose from as well as a multiplayer racing mode.

Footy fans will love Sony PSP’s FIFA 10, with its improved graphics and enhancements. Featuring refinements based on responsiveness and intelligence, plus a new ‘Manager Mode’ including a whopping 50 major improvements, the game includes the 360° dribbling system, which provides finer dribbling control, as well as more accurate passing and authentic shooting.

But the Sony PSP is not just about games: there’s also plenty of films to be downloaded too, as well as a wealth of gaming accessories. Ensure you get a decent durable case and screen protector, first off. PSP accessories packs come in a variety of combinations, with carry cases and screen protectors often included. Save on batteries and get yourself a Sony PSP adaptor, ensuring you can play without the worry that your game will cut out half way through.

For games, movies and accessories, you’ll certainly be spoilt for choice with your PSP. Happy gaming!

Singstar Motown

This year Motown celebrate their 50th anniversary and the Sony Corporation have marked the event by releasing a new karaoke game called ‘SingStar Motown’.

The new version of the game follows the theme of the previous Singstar PS3 game and features 30 songs on the disc with the outstanding quality come to be expected of the brand.

The Playstation 3 game offers a big update of the Playstation 2 titles with an online store where you can buy further songs for a small fee.  The price for the latest version is around £20 and includes the following titles;

PS2 and PS3 Songs

David Ruffin – Put A Little Love In Your Heart
Diana Ross & The Supremes – Reflections
Jimmy Ruffin – What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted
Lionel Richie – My Destiny
Martha Reeves & The Vandellas – Jimmy Mack
Martha Reeves & The Vandellas – Nowhere To Run
Marvin Gaye – Let’s Get It On
Marvin Gaye – What’s Going On?
Marvin Gaye & Kim Weston – It Takes Two
Mary Wells – My Guy
Rick James – Super Freak
Smokey Robinson – Being With You
Smokey Robinson And The Miracles – The Tracks Of My Tears
Stevie Wonder – For Once In My Life
The Commodores – Brick House
The Commodores – Easy
The Contours – Do You Love Me
The Four Tops – Reach Out I’ll Be There
The Isley Brothers – This Old Heart Of Mine (Is Weak For You)
The Jackson 5 – ABC
The Miracles – Love Machine
The Supremes – You Can’t Hurry Love
The Temptations – Get Ready
The Temptations – Papa Was A Rollin’ Stone
The Velvelettes – Needle In A Haystack

PS3 Exclusive Songs

The Four Tops – I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)
The Jackson 5 – I Want You Back
Martha Reeves & The Vandellas – Dancing In The Street
Marvin Gaye I Heard It Through The Grapevine
The Supremes – Stop In The Name Of Love

There was a time when EA would have been porting every one of their titles to every platform (including, no doubt, Gizmondo, NGAGE and Dreamcast) but it looks like they’re deciding to wind up production instead. True, this is just one game (and not a hugely popular sport over here), but across the pond it’s another story. They’re putting the blame squarely at the feet of the current economic climate, but given they generally port Wii engine games to PS2 and vice versa, it wouldn’t have taken that much extra budget.

The only thing we can read into this is that the PC and PS2 are now the least popular platforms for new releases (in the USA at least). PC mainly because of piracy (and possibly the fact that sports games work better on a big TV with a gamepad) and the PS2 because… well, maybe because the type of people who buy the next title in sports series year upon year are the types who have already joined this generation of console hardware.

Watch this space – it’s either a one-off in a very specific genre of year-on-year sporting tie-ins or simply the end of the PS2’s lifespan. At least in North America – the likes of FIFA may still get the PS2 treatment if Europeans still have love for Sony’s smaller black box.

There are rumours it will take another price cut to give it another sales boost, and it’s definitely about to enter new global markets including Latin America and Eastern Europe. The system has a particularly impressive back catalogue with over 1,900 games released and 70 new ones due out this year as developers still continue to support the system – usually with ports of Wii games.

Personally, I’m pretty sure the DS will outrun the PS2 sooner rather than later. The DSi is nearly upon us, and I think that will put it well on the way to overtaking, especially as the system has age on its side – at a sprightly four years younger than Sony’s black box, it certainly has the upper hand.

So how do these heavy weight sellers fit into the greater spectrum? Here are the approximate worldwide sales figures courtesy of Wikipedia – some of these are a little out of date, but it should give you an overall picture…

1. Sony Playstation 2 – 136,000,000

2. Nintendo GameBoy/GameBoy Colour – 118,700,000

3. Sony Playstation – 102,490,000

4. Nintendo DS – 100,000,000

5. Nintendo Game Boy Advance – 81,360,000

6. Nintendo Entertainment System – 61,900,000

7. Sony PSP – 50,000,000

8. Nintendo SNES – 49,100,000

9. Nintendo Wii – 44,960,000

10. Nintendo 64 – 32,900,000

11. Sega Mega Drive – 29,000,000

12. Microsoft Xbox 360 – 28,000,000

13. Microsoft Xbox – 24,000,000

14. Nintendo GameCube – 21,740,000

15. Sony Playstation 3 – 21,300,000

16. Sega Master System – 13,000,000

17. Sega GameGear – 11,000,000

18. Sega Dreamcast – 10,600,000

19. TurboGrafx-16 – 10,000,000

20. Sega Saturn – 9,500,000

Seeing the Dreamcast outsold by the GameGear must make Sega question the existence of a just God. I’m also left a little surprised at how well the PSP has sold – so why has the support for it virtually dried up?

Guitar Hero: Greatest Hits is coming to Xbox 360, Wii, Playstation 3 and the must-be-on-its-last-legs-now-surely Playstation 2 platforms this summer, and it will include 48 master recordings from the previous games in the series.

The good news is that this will take many of Guitar Hero World Tour’s improvements on board, so gamers can look forward to added drums and vocals in the songs for the first time, as well as online play and GHWT’s Music Studio feature that allowed you to make your own songs or blatantly copy more famous ones.

There will be no new venues, but gamers who have spent far too long on the series and can play “Through the Fire and Flames” on expert blindfolded will be rewarded with a new “Expert +” setting. Think I’ll just stick to hard.

Of the 48 tracks (which seems a little short to me, given even Guitar Hero: Aerosmith managed 41), only a partial track listing has emerged just yet, but here it is anyway:

Alice in Chains – Them Bones
Dragonforce – Through the Fire and Flames
Heart – Barracuda
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts – I Love Rock N Roll
Poison – Nothin’ But a Good Time
Queen – Killer Queen
Rage Against The Machine – Killing in the Name
Twisted Sister – I Wanna Rock

Disappointingly, according to an interview with IGN, Activision haven’t followed in the sensible shoes of Harmonix’s Rock Band series and will not be allowing the tracks to be exported to the hard disk for use in future titles. Neither will DLC purchased for Guitar Hero World Tour work in this new release, which sounds like Activision shooting itself in the foot to me.

What do you think readers? Is Activision going to cause the franchise’s downfall by milking it too hard?

Never seen the appeal of waving around noisy plastic instruments?

And what have been the best songs to virtually strum along to, anyway?

Let us know in the comments.

Playable on the game are the first three movie adventures including, Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

Thinking of the most recent film (Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull), could there be another Lego Indiana Jones game released soon, or a Lego Indiana Jones game that includes all four of them like the Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga game.

It is the next game in the Lego Video game series and I hope it turns out to be as good as the previous games including Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga.

The game is priced around £25 and £30 and will be released on the 6/6/08, only 8 days to go.

The two teenagers are Renos Goergiou who was 16 and Lyndon Jones who was 15 were watched by over 9500 people at the ‘Give it a Name’ festival in Earls Court, London.

Alex Kidd: Finish Tournament Singles in Alex Kidd stage

Amy Rose: Finish Tournament Singles in Sonic the Hedgehog stage

Gilius Thunderhead: Finish Tournament Singles in Golden Axe stage

Gum: Finish Tournamet Doubles in Jet Set Radio stage

MeeMee: Finish Tournament Singles in Super Monkey Ball Stage

Pudding: Finish Tournament Singles in Space Channel 5 stage

Reala: Finish Tournament Singles in KNiGHTS stage

Shadow: Finish Tournament Doubles in Sonic the Hedgehog stage

Unlockable Stages

Alex Kidd: Finish get a high score in Space Harrier stage

Outrun: Finish hit justice shots in Virtua Squad stage

Space Harrier: Finish Tournament Singles in Space Channel 5 stage

Virtua Squad: Finish hit the big zombies in Curien Mansion stage.