Tehra is a hybrid creature who is part human and part devil, a female warrior who must take on the monstrous Orcs, the undead and a horde of beasts, trying to confront Bacdar, the King of Demons.

Tehra: Dark Warrior is a  classic action hack’n’slash and adventure based in a fantasy world. Our heroine, Tehra will progress through the game increasing her combat skills, magical power and become brutally evil with extraordinary power.

Sistar is a world inhabited by three races: Humans, Demons and Dragons. The Humans and Demons, antagonistic races by nature, fought for control of the territory, enslaving the dragon race because of its great destructive power in battle. Finally realizing that the fight would never end, the factions of both opposing sides signed the Tarkhubal Treaty, according to which the territory would be divided into six kingdoms: three would be bestowed on the three human kings and the other three on the Devil Lords of the war. To watch over the implementation of this Treaty agreed by opposing sides, a hybrid creature, human and devil, was created: Tehra, whose mission is maintaining peace in Sistar. Her directive is straightforward, if a king breaks the Treaty, he will be eliminated.

Tehra is the only hybrid both human and devil in the game, and was created specifically to protect the fulfillment of the Treaty of Tarkhubal. She may change her physical appearance to take a more human or devil aspect although in order to do this, she needs some demon blood. When in demon mode, her attacks are stronger and more deadly, although she cannot keep this momentum for long.

The PSP version of the game includes several improvements that really convert this game into one of the most interesting titles you could find at any Playstation Store. There are new levels; more detailed scenarios; new movements and attack combos; new monsters; and better playability.

Key Features
• Tehra has two sides to her character: both human and devil.
• Easy to play. The player will understand the controls in a few minutes.
• Player magic and combat skills evolution.
• Great history mode and challenging minigames including a survival style game for fast-playing.
• Defeat enemies and complete levels to unlock Challenges.
• Hours of gameplay.
• 3D graphics with full use of PSP hardware for special effects as Bloom and smooth gameplay.

Tehra:Dark Warrior

Objects & Spells
The following list details the potions, spells and objects that the player will find across the world of Sistar, and a brief description of their effect:

Electricity: Transform demon blood into electricity, creating a lighting ray that damages the enemies.

Shockwave: Creates a powerful shockwave that can damage all the enemies on the screen.

Combustion: Creates an explosion around the player, causing damage to all the enemies near the player.
Some creatures are not damaged by this spell.

Fireballs: Results in the creation of one or various fire spheres, than cause serious damage to all the enemies currently on the screen. The numbers of spheres may change.

Power Attack: Powerful attack that hits multiple enemies in front of Tehra.

Gold: Found on chests, hidden places, or dropped by some enemies, allow Tehra to learn new spells and combat skills.

Demon Wrath: Allows Tehra transform into a Dark Warrior.

Rings of Eir: Magical body protection. Tehra will be more resistant to enemy attacks.

Dragon Claw: Provides a better assimilation of demon blood.
The consumption of blood to cast spells will be less.

Tehra: Dark Warrior is released today, June 2nd, through the Sony Playstation Store as a PSP MINI videogame suitable for PSP and Playstation 3, priced at €4.99.

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!

archer macleans mercury

Archer MacLean’s Mercury is a challenging puzzle game that was originally released on the PSP in 2005. Mercury has now been re-released on the PSN (PlayStation Network) for £4.79. This is a recommended buy for anyone who hasn’t already played or purchased Mercury, as it is a frustrating and challenging game in a most enjoyable and unique way.

Mercury is a ball of liquid that you have to get to the finish before you lose too much mercury. To get to the finish you must complete many tasks including opening doors, activating buttons and just staying alive!

You will need to focus quickly to find the best route to finish in time, you will also need to change the colour of mercury to activate colour specific switches (or buttons), doors to allow mercury into the next area and colour filters which will only allow  a certain colour to pass through.

There may be a paint shop which allows you to transform instantly to the colour you need, or you may need to create your colour by using two or more paint shops and mixing the colours together in order to obtain the desired colour. Some levels contain teleports which can be used by any colour mercury just by waiting under it. This adds to the difficulty of some levels as you must identify where each teleport goes to.

The game itself contains six worlds, each with many challenging levels to complete to unlock the next world. These worlds are Neon (Tutorial), Quartz, Xero, Aqua, Helios and Nano. Each world contains various levels, the main ones being Race, Percentage and Task.

Race requires skill and speed as you are in an epic battle with time and you must complete the level quickly. Finishing these levels usually requires a small percentage of mercury, so you can rush through the level with little concern for losing mercury.

Percentage will normally require a larger amount of mercury in order to complete the level. You are given more time so be sure to take a steady route to the finish.  But you still need to be fast enough if you want to be placed top of the high scores chart for each level.

Task will require a lot more skill than the other levels. These levels are designed to challenge you, usually with colour filters and colour specific switches, you may even need to finish the level using a different colour than what you started with. Despite this you still must battle against time and not always a high percentage of mercury is required to finish the level.

At the end of each world there is a “boss” level.  The levels are very difficult to complete compared to the previous levels in that world as you must finish quickly, maintain a lot of mercury and use paint shops, colour switches and colour filters efficiently to complete the level.

Additionally, enemies can be included in some levels.  These enemies feast upon mercury.  Try not to get trapped in a corner with multiple enemies. Enemies automatically follow you when you get close to them so you can trick them by luring them away from the finish or switches you need to activate. You can even distract them by breaking off a small amount of mercury and let them nibble on it while you go for the finish.

Overall Mercury is a very good game which can offer hours of frustratingly difficult fun with its addictive and challenging gameplay.

Mercury offers a challenge to all levels of gamers. A recommended buy especially as it has been re-released at a low price.

Great game.

Buzzin Games Rating: 83%

mercury

Ignition Entertainment Ltd., a UTV Enterprise – a worldwide publisher and developer of videogames is pleased to announce the release of Archer Mclean’s Mercury which is now available for download from the PlayStation®Network for the PSP™ (PlayStation®Portable) in the PAL territories.

Mercury, the original and now iconic puzzle game, where the simple but challenging task is to manoeuvre the blobs of ‘mercury’ to a set goal will have gamers engrossed for hours on end.

The cleverly designed levels are full of variety, with switches, platforms, obstacles and hazards barring your goal to level completion. Having an understanding of the laws of physics, which are reversed in some instances, will help you in your tasks.

Mercury with its ingenious physics routines and large 3D levels often requires skill, fortitude and maybe even a little luck to complete and will have you coming back for more in order to beat the fastest times and unlock the games many secrets!

Game features:

• Six fantastic game worlds with 72 levels of fantastic liquid mayhem!

• Over 30 interactive objects, enemies and level solving devices, including Teleporter, Spinners, bridges and flux transmitters

• Combo, Boss and lots of secret levels to unlock

• Unlock able levels per world for hi-scorers and a bonus 7th world to discover!

• Training camp for beginners for to practice blob control and colour manipulation

• Ultra realistic liquid mercury effects never before seen in a game

• Addictive pick up and play gameplay

Mercury serves up the ultimate puzzle game for players of all ages. Once you start playing it will be impossible to put down!

Download Mercury now from  Playstation UK

If you were to poll most PSP users about their biggest annoyance with the console, the majority would probably say the UMD drive.

It’s been a bugbear from the very start, making the system more fragile, giving longer loading times and crushing battery life thanks to the questionable wisdom of putting moving parts inside a handheld.

And obviously demand for UMD movies is pretty much non-existent.

The sensible thing to do would be to redesign the system without one, only that would leave loyal customers with pockets full of UMD’s a little on the pissed off side.

Still, according to a “secret source” on Eurogamer, that’s exactly what the next iteration of the PSP (the 4000) games console is going to have in a dramatic new redesign.

Along with the loss of a UMD drive, the unnamed developer also is quoted as saying that “The screen is basically the one in the 3000 – except it slides.”

Allegedly, Sony are looking into games that only use the shoulder buttons (think Loco Roco) that can be used in this closed state, which will also make for a more compact media player – games with more buttons will need the screen to be fully slided out.

The rumours have been gathering for some time, and it’s even spread on to Twitter, with Dave Perry publicly challenging John Koller, the marketing manager for the PSP, to deny that they plan to drop the unique games format.

With big hitting franchises like Little Big Planet, Assassin’s Creed and Motorstorm due on the PSP this year, it’s a rough time to make owners doubt whether buying UMD’s is a good idea, so hopefully we can get some solid answers in the near future.

What do you think? Is the end of the UMD drive a good thing? And how will Sony placate the millions of UMD owners?

A download service to slam shut the industry-hated pre-owned market?

Please leave your thoughts in the comments.

Sony and Sky launch Go!View for the PSP

THIS COMPETITION HAS NOW CLOSED. THANK YOU TO ALL THOSE WHO ENTERED THIS COMPETITION.

WE WILL CONTACT THE WINNERS SHORTLY.

Sony and Sky launch a new Portable Service for the PSP

The new video-on-demand service is called Go!View.

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe and Sky have launched a portable video-on-demand service for PSP™ (PlayStation®Portable) games consoles.

This new service allows you to use your Sony PSP to watch tv shows such as Heroes, Lost, Doctor Who and Top Gear as well FA Premier League football action and blockbuster movies.

You can choose from Comedy, Sport and Entertainment packs that are available by monthly subscription, whilst selected movies and TV series can be transferred via the rental service on Go!View.

Subscription packs are priced at £5 for 1 pack, £8 for 2 packs and £10 for all three packs.  Rental TV is available from £1.50 per episode and a range of movies is available from £2.50 each.

Currently everyone who registers for the service at www.goview.tv receive one month’s free subscription.

Free Competition to win 4 PSP Games

Free Competition to win 4 PSP Games

To celebrate the launch of Go!View Sony have kindly offered 4 PSP games: Echochrome, Secret Agent Crank, Shinobido: Tales of the Ninja and B-Boy PSP games to give away to one lucky winner.

To enter the competition all you need to do is correctly answer the following question:

What does PSP stand for?

Send your entries to freecompetition@buzzinmedia.co.uk with Buzzin Games PSP Competition in the subject line with your answer and your full address and contact telephone number.

This Buzzin Games Free Competition ends on 30 November, 2008. The editor will randomly choose one winner. The winner will receive 4 PSP games: Echochrome, Secret Agent Crank, Shinobido: Tales of the Ninja and B-Boy PSP games.

The editor’s choice is final.

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.

Wii
Emergency Mayhem
Namco Museum Remix
Puppy Love

PSP
UEFA Euro 2008

PS2
UEFA Euro 2008
PS3
Time Crisis 4
UEFA Euro 2008

Xbox 360
UEFA Euro 2008

On the PlayStation 3
Condemned 2
Dark Sector

On the PSP
Riviera: The Promised Land

And on the Xbox 360
Dark Sector
Condemned 2

Sega Superstars Tennis
Gran Turismo 5: Prologue
God of War: Chains of Olympus
No More Heroes
Viking: Battle for Asgard

Feel free to comment if you think that we have missed a top game or you disagree with any of our choices!