Sony is setting up focus groups in Japan to get opinions on developing PSP and PlayStation 3 games. If you’re in Tokyo, more specifically Aoyama where Sony Computer Entertainment Japan is located, you can apply here. Half-day participants get 2,500 yen ($25) for hanging around Sony’s offices for 2-3 hours. Full-day testers get 5,000 [...]

It’s no big secret that Sony Computer Entertainment Japan is pushing digital distribution for the PSP. All of their first party games get a retail and digital release on day one. Now Sony is extending this policy to their back catalogue, namely their PSP The Best series. “The Best” games are essentially Japan’s Greatest [...]

Sometime in 2001 Sony teamed up with McDonalds for a unique promotion, the McDonald’s Original Happy Disc. The PlayStation 2 game contains demos of PaRappa the Rapper 2 and Piposaru 2001 processed with additional hamburgers. Piposaru 2001 probably needs some explanation since it was never released outside of Japan. The title is an entry [...]

Out of the blue Sony brought Ape Quest on the PlayStation Store yesterday as a downloadable PSP game. You may not have heard the Ape Quest name before, but you might recall Sarugetchu: The Record of Piposaru War. This is the English localized version of the thinly veiled collection of mini games wrapped in an [...]

Ape Escape’s first foray into fantasy, Sarugetchu: The Record of Piposaru War (which as Nich points out in comments may not be related to the Record of Lodoss War) has an official site up. There are a few screens to glance at and a knightly monkey munching on a banana in the left hand corner. [...]

I love the name of the upcoming PlayStation Portable Ape Escape RPG. Sarugetchu Piposaru Senki: The Record of Piposaru War is cleverly named after at the high fantasy anime, the Record of Lodoss War. The first screenshots over at Famitsu show the monkeys whacking skeletons with wood swords and playing tennis. These mini games allow [...]

As a diehard Piposaru/Ape Escape fan I had a grin on my face when I saw Ape Quest rated by the ESRB. This is far from official confirmation about a new Ape Escape game, but I can’t think of anything else this could relate to. My guess is Ape Quest is the North American version [...]

This list isn’t all that exciting, but it’s worth mentioning since Piposaru Racing (Ape Escape Racing) is going to drop in price on November 22. It’s been out for a year now and no company has expressed interest in localizing it, which means the only way to pick it up is through importing. For 2,800 [...]

The truth is there just aren’t as many limited edition PSPs as there are special edition DSes. And many of the special edition PSP models don’t even have characters etched on them. If you’ve been aching to get a Loco Roco or Zebra striped PSP, Sony’s dress up stickers are your best option. There [...]

Sony put a downloadable PSP demo for Sarugetchu: SaruSaru Daisakusen online and if you have a PSP make sure to check it out. You could head over the official site or you can skip straight to the PC download page for the file. Click on the button underneath the number 3 to get the eboot [...]