PSP Weekend Warrior: Badman no more

Naming IPs can be a tricky business sometimes. You have to check carefully to see if you’re not stepping on anybody else’s trademarks. Unfortunately for NIS America, a big bad Badman came and took the “Badman” title away from them this week. A bit of bad news there, but at least things are again picking up for the PSP, what with a couple of big franchises getting handheld iterations and more bite-sized games announced for the Sony handheld.

Naming IPs can be a tricky business sometimes. You have to check carefully to see if you’re not stepping on anybody else’s trademarks. Unfortunately for NIS America, a big bad Badman came and took the “Badman” title away from them this week. A bit of bad news there, but at least things are again picking up for the PSP, what with a couple of big franchises getting handheld iterations and more bite-sized games announced for the Sony handheld.

The Hardware:

• Pearl White PSPgo on sale on Amazon. Link
• Activision: hardware sales decline is PS2’s fault. Link
  

The Games:

• Nomura to make Kingdom Hearts III a reality ‘as quickly as possible’. Link
• God Eater has extremely customer-friendly shops. Link
• Kojima: Peace Walker will retain classic MGS fun. Link
• New Dynasty Warriors: Strikeforce 2 demo out now in Japan. Link
• Alien Zombie Death on EU PS Store next week. Link
• Fieldrunners “Super Secret Cheats” are very badly-kept secrets. Link
• The Sims 3 coming to consoles and handhelds. Link
• Ghost Recon: Future Soldier also coming to Wii and handhelds, Xbox 360 beta not starting until this summer. Link
• LittleBigPlanet PSP “Strawberry Cheesecake Update” now live. Link
• Just Add Water announces Vektar Beat for PS3, PSP. Link
• Holy Invasion Of Privacy, Badman 2 gets a name change, delayed. Link
• What Did I Do to Deserve This, My Lord? 2 dated for UK, first game returning to PSN soon. Link