I can tell what you’re pondering. No, I know what you’re pondering. Here you are, setting idly in your chair and skimming through random game message boards. The howls and cries of the current console generation are anywhere and everywhere, whether its about how balls-to-the-wall it is too see how much Nathan Drake can get his shirt-wet in gorgeous wide-screen high-definition or the municipal assertion that the waggle generation is here to stay, just so long no one has to endure Nintendo’s smutty online service for too long. Yeah, you’ve been there. But not too long back, you were rubbing your thumbs red over a console that reserved a special place in your heart for more than 7 years. Good times! Wonderful times! And now they’ve departed.

“If only there were still some new games to play,” you think to yourself.

Splendidly, it so happens that this April will be seeing several titles released on the PS2, and if you find yourself curious (and you should be), you’ll want to thank – who else – but Japan (or at least the company Atlus for publishing certain titles)! After all, it’s the only country in the world that still has an extensive backlog of games that most people haven’t even heard about.

“Wait, wouldn’t mean they were too crappy for public ingestion or…”

Quiet, you! Now hit the jump like a good munchkin.

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For those that were eagerly watching the three empty “Coming Soon” boxes on Capcom Japan’s TGS website, the details have finally been unveiled. Remember how said they have strong franchises and they will be dropping a bomb on us, well, they dropped a bomb damp squib all right. For all those who were expecting news on Dead Rising 2 or Dead Rising with a co-op mode and an enhanced save system for the PC, weep knowing the fact that the new announcements are actually for Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, Arcana Heart and MotoGP, all for the dying PS2. No Inafune, no Frank West, no zombie killfests in sprawling malls set in small, forgotten American cities. We’re still praying for some word on Dead Rising 2 / Dead Rising PC at TGS, not to mention a hint of a playable demo for Devil May Cry 4 on Xbox LIVE Marketplace and PSN, but as of now, all our hopes have been dashed to little bloody pieces on the jagged rocks of reality.