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Check out that headline. Finally PSP owners have graduated from the "better than nothing" PC Store to the ultra-sexy direct PSP Store. Content updates don't seem to have substantially improved for either region (Europe saw no new PSP content yet again, this week), but Rome wasn't built in a day. American PSP owners will be able to grab two new UMD Legacy titles, a PS1 game and a demo. If you're interested in funny games that didn't sell well enough, Dead Head Fred is your best bet for this week. Here's the full list:

• Dead Head Fred full PSP game ($14.99)
• PQ2: Practical Intelligence Quotient full PSP game ($14.99)
• Sno-Cross Championship Racing PS1 game ($5.99)
• Lego Batman demo (free)

While it doesn't quite fulfill our wish list of PSP games we'd most want to purchase by download and run from a single Memory Stick, D3 Publisher's "classic" catalog is coming to PlayStation Store (the PC one) this September. Props for being ahead of the curve. Up for digital delivery will be:

• Cube ($9.99)
• Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords ($14.99)
• WTF: work time fun ($9.99)
• PQ: Practical Intelligence Quotient ($9.99)
• PQ2: Practical Intelligence Quotient 2 ($14.99)
• Dead Head Fred ($14.99)

Once a true PSP Store is in place, we'd love to see all publishers follow suit. Now tell us that wouldn't send a chill up your spine GameStop!

Finally! D3 Publisher, we applaud your decision to bring your PSP catalog to the PLAYSTATION Store. You're not bringing just one obscure game onto the Store -- you're making available a number of games, from big-budget releases to obscure cult classics. Best of all, you're making them available for cheap! Here are the releases:

September 18, 2008

• Cube - $9.99
• Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords - $14.99

October 2, 2008

• WTF: Work Time Fun - $9.99
• PQ: Practical Intelligence Quotient - $9.99

October 16, 2008

• PQ2: Practical Intelligence Quotient 2 - $14.99
• Dead Head Fred - $14.99

To find out more about each of these titles, simply click on their names. You'll find all our news, previews and reviews of these games.

PQ2, or Practical Intelligence Quotient 2, provides everything a PSP gamer could possibly want from a puzzle game on the handheld. It features simple, but attractive graphics, some killer music, and an impressive array of networking features. With a sleek presentation, brisk load times, and a easy-to-understand concept, PQ2 comes easily recommended. However, the difficulty of these puzzles borders on the maniacal, and gamers may find themselves overwhelmed, even frustrated, by many of the seemingly-impossible tasks the game asks.

Like other great puzzle games, the basic mechanic of PQ2 is easily to understand. You must navigate your avatar to the exit. Obviously, this is easier said than done. You can navigate the low-key environments by moving and using various blocks found in the level. At first glance, this may seem a bit too easy: the first puzzles simply have players merely moving and shoving a few boxes around.

However, things get much more difficult, very quickly.

If you listened to our last fancast, you would've heard our ramblings on a little-known title called PQ2. The premise is ridiculously simple: get to the exit. However, to get to the end, you'll have to test your brain by navigating environments, moving boxes around in clever ways.

Certainly, a box-shoving puzzle game can't be too interesting. Incorrect. Our preview build of PQ2 features some incredibly slick presentation, with fantastic music and some really sleek menus. We really appreciated the tutorial system which breaks down each aspect of the game quite thoroughly. It may seem daunting at first, but the game tells you only what you need to know. For example, after passing a dozen practice challenges, the game tells me that I can easily pass the first ten levels of the game. The first ten puzzles focus only on the skills developed by the tutorial so far -- afterwards, we're allowed to go back into the tutorial to explore more complicated procedures.

The puzzles themselves progress very well in difficulty. As we continued through the game, we found the title to become increasingly challenging, with one or two puzzles giving us a real hard time. So far, we're very impressed by the quick load times, impressive presentation, and fun puzzles. We'll explore more of the game, such as the exciting level editor and infrastructure options, in our final review of the game. Until then, check out screenshots from the game in our updated gallery. Finally, don't forget to try out the Japanese demo to get a small taste of the title.