Space Invaders and Arkanoid hit DS and PSP for budget prices in summer

Retro joy not far away

| Apr 3, 2008

Last week it was announced that Square Enix (or subsidiary company Taito at least) would be publishing remakes of Space Invaders and Arkanoid for the handhelds.

Space Invaders Extreme is coming to both DS and PSP, complete with new techno tunes, mini-games and various ad-hoc and wireless modes for both consoles.

Arkanoid meanwhile is just coming out on DS and will feature the classic block-busting gameplay with new power-ups and multiplayer modes.

Today, Taito has confirmed a US release date for both of June 17th and also announced that the games will sell at the budget price of $19.99. With a bit of luck, both bits of news could apply to the games' UK releases too - we'd be happy with some budget titles for the summer.

Watch this space, and hopefully Taito will be filling it with rows of cheeky little aliens very shortly.

Kath Brice

Kath gave up a job working with animals five years ago to join the world of video game journalism, which now sees her running our DS section. With so many male work colleagues, many have asked if she notices any difference.

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