Lost in Blue 2, MGS PSP in May

By Robert Purchese Published 4 April, 2007

Konami concretes spring dates.

Those of you eager to get your hands on Konami's rather excellent pocket Snake adventure will be slightly upset to see it has slipped out of April.

Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops will now be available on May 4th, and you can find our import review elsewhere on Eurogamer.

Also popping out of Konami's latest release schedule is DS adventure game Lost in Blue 2, which now has a firm date of 11th May. Something we can't wait to get stuck into.

As for later this month, PS2 fans can expect to be making shapes in Dancing Stage Super Nova, or fighting hundreds of sixteenth century Japanese enemies in Demon Chaos.

These morsels will be let out of the traps on 27th April, along with PSP outing Death Jr. 2 - Root of Evil, and Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship 2007 on DS.

So, a bit of something for everyone this spring. Lets all get loaded and have a good time.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (17) Latest comment 5 years ago

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  • SeesThroughAll #1 5 years ago

    Curse you Konami!

  • DanC89 #2 5 years ago

    I've had MGS for ages, only completed it today though. :-D

  • Hughes. #3 5 years ago

    I have no idea why I just didn't import it, I'm going to get spanked online by all the people who've been playing the US version for months. Still, there's supposed to be loads of extras in the EU version, so at least I don't have to buy it twice.

  • Kiigan #4 5 years ago

    I can't believe Portable Ops isn't even out here yet!
    Not sure there's any point releasing it now... anyone who really wanted it has probably imported it already.

  • GitSomE_UK #5 5 years ago

    WTF!

    Damn you Konami, why is it longer for Europe... oh let me see... ah! I know it's cos Europe is seen as the arse end of the gaming market.

    Why does this article have no details as to the reason for the delays? Instead we are goaded nay insulted by EG with the "Look we reviewed and completed this already so neh!" whilst you the unwashed wait LONGER!

    Splutter...Damn them, damn them all!!!!

    /Nurse enters and hands medication to Mr UK

  • robg #6 5 years ago

    Well done for incorporating the phrase "pocket snake" into your site! :)

  • Kiigan #7 5 years ago

    Er, that's a bit harsh, GitsomeUK. I daresay most of us appreciated the import review - no doubt plenty of EG readers import their games from US and Japan.

    That said, I would love to see EG talk to these companies who treat European customers so shabbily, and really put them on the spot. Nintendo should be top of the list.

  • GitSomE_UK #8 5 years ago

    @Kiigan

    Meant as a joke man not serious however, that's not a bad idea.

    We need some investigative journalism EG, just why do so many games slip? Why would portable ops take so long then delay again!

    An EG Watchdog, that's what we need!

  • ManicDrunkMonk #9 5 years ago

    Actually thats not such a bad idea. EG could help with its own campaign, asking all developers and manufacturers questions about it at the end of interviews. At least it would put it on the radar, rather than just whining about it in these forums!

  • Steroyd #10 5 years ago

    7 months after the US what the hell?

  • RobertFoster #11 5 years ago

    Oh cool, I liked Lost in Blue. Didn't realise the sequel was so close.

  • CitizenGeek #12 5 years ago

    "I can't believe Portable Ops isn't even out here yet!
    Not sure there's any point releasing it now... anyone who really wanted it has probably imported it already."

    That's what people said about FFXII, and FFXII topped the charts for two weeks in the face of heavy next-gen competition. Most people don't import, even if they can.

    Anyway, this is ridiculous of Konami. FFS the game has been out in the US since before Christmas!

  • Steroyd #13 5 years ago

    That's what people said about FFXII, and FFXII topped the charts for two weeks in the face of heavy next-gen competition. Most people don't import, even if they can.

    That's different you had to do something to your PS2, here we can just buy a US PSP game with no worries (bar online play).

    Although it's a catch 22 because when it does launch here there would be less people buying it here and even less incentive to convert it to PAL regions because of the low sales, even though we're all importing them from the US. :/

    Damnit

  • Ryze #14 5 years ago

    I reckon with MGS and Final Fantasy, the excuses are the translations into several European languages.

    Still sucks tho - but with PSP games, just go to Play-Asia

  • DanC89 #15 5 years ago

    @ Ryze

    Do they still import Sony stuff to Europe? I thought (thanks to Sony!) that they were trying to avoid becoming another Lik Sang.

  • Kiigan #16 5 years ago

    Play-Asia don't ship PSP stuff to Europe any longer sadly.

  • djcool3005 #17 5 years ago

    just download dark alex's custom firmware and then download the iso of portable ops and put it on yor psp then you won't even have to wait or pay for it :D Thats what i've done and i can tell u its a great game
    Edited by 1 at 09/04/07 @ 20:48