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Namco Bandai are running a four-week 50% off sale on the PlayStation Network in North America, with One Piece: Pirate Warriors and other games on sale.

Daishi Odashima says it’s because a lot of the AI behaviour in Soulcalibur: Broken Destiny was manually input by the game’s balancers.

Soulcalibur director, Daishi Odashima, tweets about the series’ most recent game.

It breaks down basic gameplay components into missions loosely tied together by a story. The first few missions start off very basic, which is good because I’m a Soulcalibur novice.

The game, which is scheduled to go on sale in a few hours, is already in the hands of some Japanese fans that played with the costume system.

Most of the 2P costumes in Soulcalibur: Broken Destiny are from Soulcalibur IV. Dampierre and Kratos, however, are newcomers and you can see one of them dressed like The Beatles right now.

Sony Computer Entertainment Korea made a PSP bundle pack specifically for Soulcalibur: Broken Destiny. Out of all the colors in the PSP rainbow they could have picked SCEK went with… lilac purple.

Soulcalibur: Broken Destiny is coming out in a few weeks and Namco Bandai is promoting their portable fighter with the happiest group of Soulcalibur fans, perhaps ever.

My interview with Makoto Iwai started with their collaborative efforts in Tekken 6 and Soulcalibur: Broken Destiny. Both titles are key franchises, which also have added elements designed to make them more appealing in the West.

Yes, Soulcalibur: Broken Destiny is coming out this summer. When? August 27 in Japan and September 1 in North America.

The last press release from Namco Bandai said Soulcalibur: Broken Destiny will bring the search for the cursed sword to PSPs this summer. By “summer” Namco Bandai really meant August 27… for Japan.

Namco Bandai sent a batch of Soulcalibur: Broken Destiny screenshots featuring their new, spring loaded knife wielding character Dampierre.

The PSP has a solid line up this year, but how many upcoming games will be available as digital downloads. The PSP Go doesn’t have a UMD drive and Sony has yet to announce a solution for physical UMD games.