Kotaku
With Vice City Stories and Silent Hill: Origins coming to the PSP in the next couple of months, Sony's brick has almost gone from "Portable Most Likely To Be Stuffed Into A Sock And Used To Bludgeon Ken Kutaragi Clean To Death" to being marginally worth having. But the announcement that Pixel's freeware 8-bit classic, Cave Story is coming to the PSP is a huge boon for the system.
I've written about my manic enthusiasm for the game before: "Cave Story is one of the greatest games ever made. Period, then exclamation point, then my hobnail boot imploding the obnoxious face of the fool who disagrees. So charming, frantic, ethereal... the creator, Pixel, is one of those quiet, imminently modest geniuses who can never fail to just melt your heart, and Cave Story is his masterpiece."
. On the other hand, there's no real point buying a PSP for Cave Story, considering it's free and playable now. Also, it's a damn short game, taking only about 4 hours to playthrough. Still, I might pick up a copy just to put a few yen in Pixel's pocket. Artists deserve to be rewarded for their labors of love. Cave Story PSP is due to be released sometime in 2007 by Variant Interactive.
Cave Story PSP [Variant Interactive, thanks Thanius!]
Edit: According to Wikipedia, this is an unauthorized port, and Pixel won't get a dime. So just download the game and play it in a version that isn't ripping off the author. Don't buy this game when it comes out.
