"Featuring over one-hundred and fifty new weapons and items exclusive to the PSP version, Phantasy Star Portable takes place just after the events of Phantasy Star Universe. Players will partner up with Vivienne, a brand new character to the series, to investigate an outbreak of wild animals that may possess the remnants of a once-powerful malevolent force. Selecting from three class types and four different Races, players will be immersed in the intriguing Single-Player Story Mode and addicti..."

Sega today has created their website for the upcoming Tokyo Game Show 2008, and has released their lineup for the show:

• [PS3] Yakuza 3
• [PS3/360] Bayonetta
• [PS3/360/WII] Sonic World Adventure (Sonic Unleashed)
• [WII] 428 ~The World Doesn't Change Even So~
• [WII] Bleach: Versus Crusade
• [WII] Suzumiya Haruhi no Gekidou
• [NDS] Mysterious Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer DS2
• [NDS] Phantasy Star Zero
• [NDS] Infinite Space
• [NDS] Shining Force Feather
• [NDS] Culdcept DS
• [NDS] Suzumiya Haruhi no Chokuretsu
• [...

Japan's game and hardware sales from last week have been revealed, with Rhythm Tengoku Gold, a Ninteno DS game, coming first. One of the newest additions to the Japanese market, Afrika, came in second with 38,000 units sold. Rounding out the top five is J-League Winning Eleven 2008 Club Championship for the PS2, PSP Fate/Tiger Colosseum Upper for the PSP, and Wii Fit.

Over on the hardware side, the DS Lite sold the most, reaching over 56,000 units! Second was the PSP with 41k new owners, ...

"01. [PSP] Phantasy Star Portable (Sega) - 148,000 / 490,000
02. [NDS] Fire Emblem: New Shadow Dragons and the Sword of Light (Nintendo) - 145,000 / NEW
03. [NDS] Rhythm Tengoku Gold (Nintendo) - 130,000 / 343,000
04. [360] Tales of Vesperia (Namco Bandai) - 108,000 / NEW
05. [NDS] Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride - 73,000 / 1,019,000
06. [NDS] Sangokushi Taisen Heaven (Sega) - 33,000 / NEW
07. [NDS] Summon Night 2 (Namco Bandai) - 30,000 / NEW
08. [WII] Wii Fit (Nintendo) - 2..."

"01. [PSP] Phantasy Star Universe - (Sega) - 342,000 / 342,000
02. [NDS] Rhythm Tengoku Gold - (Nintendo) - 213,000 / 213,000
03. [NDS] Dragon Quest V - (Square Enix) - 112,000 / 946,000
04. [PS3] Soul Calibur IV - (Namco Bandai) - 75,000 / 75,000
05. [PS2] Powerful Pro Baseball 15 - (KONAMI) - 37,000 / 121,000
06. [360] Soul Calibur IV - (Namco Bandai) - 35,000 / 35,000
07. [Wii] Fatal Frame IV - (Nintendo) - 33,000 / 33,000
08. [Wii] Wii Fit - (Nintendo) - 32,000 / 2,442,000
09. [Wii..."

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"Here’s a cool looking trailer for Phantasy Star Portable, the game is building up nicely for its July 31st Japanese release, we will see if it can make waves like Monster Hunter then. Sega also mentioned in a flyer to retailers that there will be a UMD demo to give away to gamers just before the launch. Let’s hope it will be available for download as well, I’m still on the fence for this."