"VidZone, the leading video on demand service that provides free streaming music video to PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable (PSP), has today unveiled the exclusive playlist for Rising Star Games' upcoming unique Role-Playing Game (RPG) Half-Minute Hero, ahead of the game's launch tomorrow. The Half-Minute Hero track listing includes heavy metal legends Motörhead, Mötley Crüe, Nine Inch Nails and Def Leppard, joined by newer artists such as Tokio Hotel, Scary Kids Scaring Kids and Seether."

"Still not sure Half-Minute Hero's for you? Then fill your boots with some free Role-Playing Game (RPG) action as Rising Star Games has announced you'll be able to download a playable 'Hero Mode' demo of the game on 4th February 2010, via the PlayStation Network. Over a week ahead of the full launch, the 'Hero Mode' demo is a cut-down version of the full game in which players will take part in a selection of missions from the final game, each showcasing a different type of challenge from this ..."

"A homage to a bygone era, Half-Minute Hero fuses old-school visuals with a modern-day twist. In each level, a Dark Lord discovers a new way to destroy our Hero's world: he must solve a series of puzzles and level-up enough to defeat the massive end-of-level boss. In thirty seconds. Every time."

"Highlights from February include the mind-meltingly mental Half-Minute Hero on PlayStation Portable (PSP). This brilliantly original title fuses classic gaming mechanics with bite-sized thirty-second gaming to create one of the format’s most audacious twists on the Role-Playing Game (RPG) genre. Animal Kororo, a ludicrously cute Puzzle game will also be published on Nintendo DS this month."

Hot off of freshly announcing three new games this past week, publisher XSEED Games has formally announced it's lineup for this year's E3 Expo:

• [PSP] Lunar: Silver Star Harmony
• [PSP] Half-Minute Hero
• [WII] Fragile: Farewell Ruins of the Moon
• [WII] Arc Rise Fantasia
• [NDS] Flower, Sun, and Rain
• [WII] JU-ON: The Grudge
• [WII] Little King's Story
• [NDS] Ragnarok Online DS
• [WII] Valhalla Knights: Eldar Saga

The 2009 Electronics Entertainment Expo begins next week on June 2nd.