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Physical Vita Games Production Being Stopped by Sony. According to Sony the Vita card production will end on March 31, 2019, which marks the end of 2018's fiscal year. All companies that wish to have games printed physically will need to submit their requests before June 28 of this year. While this will mark the end of physical games. Join TVGS as the list and discuss ten of the best games for the Sony Playstation Vita. Such a great little handheld with a ton of great games. Lets us know yours below!

The PlayStation Vita is something of an oddity—a pricy, powerful portable gaming console adrift in a sea of smartphones, touchscreen controls, and inexpensive app-store games. All the same, we have a fondness for Sony’s beefy handheld, and the many unusual games you can play on it.

The Vita gives us a handheld machine with sticks, touch panels, lots of buttons, lots of online features and, oh yeah, graphical horsepower like we’ve never seen before in a gaming handheld. It lets you stream PS4 games remotely, which can actually work really well under the right circumstances. It also allows you to download and play select PSP games, the best of which sit comfortably next to their higher-resolution Vita brothers and sisters.

Sony gives up on the PS Vita. In an interview, Sony Computer Entertainment SVP Masayasu Ito stated that first-party studios have no Vita games in development, and that the company is shifting focus to the PS4. He did state, though, that third parties are “working very hard” on the PS Vita, which was positioned as a way to assuage the fears. This is a list of video games for PlayStation consoles, developed or published by Sony Interactive Entertainment, formerly known as Sony Computer Entertainment. This video game -related list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it. Explore the latest PS Vita games to play wherever you are. Get details from the official PlayStation website. From innovative adventures to superhero spectaculars, PS Vita has an incredible line-up of games to suit you. The 12 Best Games For The PlayStation Vita. A Good Match For: Fans of exploitation cinema, old-school twitchy action fans, perfectionists, sociopaths. Not A Good Match For: The weak-stomached, those who don’t like violence, people who want a forgiving game and/or hate electronic music. Watch it in action. See everything new from the world of Sony USA—including electronics, PlayStation, movies, music and TV shows—plus find support for your Sony products.

So, what must you play on this thing? Start with these games.

Making brilliant use of this portable platform and busting with imagination, Tearaway is a Vita dream come true. At its most basic, the game is a basic 3D platformer set in a world that appears to be made of construction paper. The trick is that the people of this world appear to be aware of you. They can see you, thanks to the Vita’s front-facing camera streaming a feed of your face into their world as their sun. They can feel the impact of your fingers as your forefinger and middle finger can tap the rear of the system to poke through their terrain.

A Good Match For: Fans of development studio Media Molecule’s LittleBigPlanet games and fans of Instagram.

Not a Good Match For: Grumpy people who don’t like cute stuff.

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Gravity Rush is a delight, an open-world adventure game built around a truly new-feeling mechanic. The protagonist Kat is able to re-orient gravity, letting her fall in any direction. It’s something of a mix between falling and flying, and it makes the game a uniquely disorienting, highly enjoyable experience. Combine those mechanical smarts with a wonderfully imaginative, fun story, lush visuals, gorgeous art design and a dizzy, grand soundtrack and you’ve got a real winner.

A Good Match For: Crackdown and Infamous fans, people who like their games to look and play differently, jazz-heads.

Not a Good Match For: Those who want familiar mechanics, deep and involved combat.

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“Waiter, I’d like a large order of high school drama with a side... ofmurder.” That’s Danganronpa for you, a high school social simulator/murder mystery that combines elements of Phoenix Wright, Clue, Persona and Battle Royale into a pulpy stew of bloody entertainment. This is the first time we’ve collapsed two games into a single entry on The Bests, but considering that both games, Trigger Happy Havoc and Goodbye Despair came out in the same year and tell two halves of a complete story, we feel okay about it. Monokuma agrees. Puhuhu…

A Good Match For: Anyone looking for a fun story to occupy their time for the next 30-40 hours, anyone who likes the games/movies/manga listed in the description above.

Not A Good Match For: Anyone looking for challenging gameplay—both games feature weird minigames that take place at various points in the story, but they’re mostly just linear visual novels that you slowly work your way through.

Read our reviews of the first and second games.

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You’ll have to embrace verbosity to really enjoy Trails of Cold Steel, a game that’s best described as “Suikoden meets Persona.” That’s what makes it so special, though. Cold Steel has just about everything you’d want from a turn-based RPG: a fun, twisty story, strategy-heavy combat, great environments, well-written dialogue, and characters who start off feeling stereotypical but show all sorts of other dimensions as the game goes on. It’s a slow burn, yes, and some of the quests can feel tedious, but the payoffs are well worth all the setup.

A Good Match For: Anyone who wants to spend dozens of hours enthralled in a complicated world filled with interesting people, politics, and relationships.

Not A Good Match For: Impatient people. People who don’t like reading.

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Combining the PlayStation 3’s PixelJunk Shooter and PixelJunk Shooter 2, PJS Ultimate is a two-in-one pack of well-designed, great-looking and great-sounding 2D flying/shooting/rescuing games. You control a little craft that you fly through a series of caverns. Each area contains some people to rescue (use your grappling hook), creatures to kill (use your guns), gems to find (use your brain) and, coolest of all, some sort of incredibly-animated liquid: lava, water and weirder stuff. The fluids are the stars of the game, as they realistically splash, flow, deform, melt, and cool in ways that aren’t just special to see but affect gameplay. Both games were created by Q-Games, a Kyoto-based studio that use the Shooter games to demonstrate their mastery of tight, clever level design, one cavern at a time.

A Good Match For: People looking for something hand-crafted and focused, a break from modern gaming’s indulgence in open worlds or randomly-generated levels.

Not a Good Match For: Those looking for a Vita original (you might have this on PS3) nor for those looking for a more rapid-fire shoot-em-up, which this is not.

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Purchase From: Available digitally from the PlayStation store.

It should not feel this cool to brutally murder people, but that may well be Hotline Miami’s entire point. The top-down killfest would be fun with the sound turned off, but the astoundingly good soundtrack elevates things to a different, more disturbingly stylish level.

The game made a big splash on PC, and for a while, mouse-control seemed like the only worthwhile fit for its brand of extremely fast, unforgiving action. But Hotline Miami works surprisingly well with the Vita’s controls, thanks in part to the ability to tag enemies for locked-on shots, which lets you plan each room-assault with a bit more precision. Groovy, disturbing, disgusting, and worryingly satisfying, Hotline Miami is one of the Vita’s most potent, darkly enjoyable games.

A Good Match For: Fans of exploitation cinema, old-school twitchy action fans, perfectionists, sociopaths.

Not A Good Match For: The weak-stomached, those who don’t like violence, people who want a forgiving game and/or hate electronic music.

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Possibly the best modern roguelike around, Spelunky is a platformer where you take a whip, a lasso, bombs, and whatever you find along the way in an attempt to go as deep as possible into randomly-generated ancient caves. The reason? Treasure, of course. Think of yourself as a cute version of Indiana Jones. While the game has appeared on other platforms, it feels at home on the Vita—Spelunky is devilishly hard and holds many secrets about the way its world and creatures work. Players can expect to die countless times as they learn how to get around. One run might last 30 seconds, the next might last 15 minutes, and both might be completely different from one other—you’ll play in bursts, which is perfect for on-the-go gaming. With its randomly generated levels and new daily challenges, Spelunky is a game that will likely stay on your Vita for a good long while to come.

A Good Match For: Anyway with tenacity and a sense of wonder. The game is difficult, but it’s also fascinating—there are a ton of rules and mysteries to uncover, which is compounded by the fact that most of the game is procedurally generated.

Not a Good Match For: Players looking for a relaxed experience: Spelunky demands that you learn how to play well, else you’re not going to get very far.

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Purchase From: Available digitally from the PlayStation Store

Japanese high school never seemed so much fun. Persona 4 Golden, a remake of the critically-acclaimed PlayStation 2 role-playing game, combines a social simulator and a hardcore RPG with surprisingly addictive results. Take midterms in the morning, eat steak with your girlfriend on the roof for lunch, then head to the mall after school to fight off shadow monsters in a dangerous world that exists inside televisions. Just another day in Persona 4’s Japan.

A Good Match For: RPG fans who want something different than the standard fantasy or sci-fi fare, or Persona fans looking for a good excuse to replay the fourth one.

Not a Good Match For: Something short. Persona 4 Golden will take you something like 70-80 hours to beat—and that’s before you start New Game Plus.

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Virtue’s Last Reward is a visual novel—in other words, it’s mostly text—but don’t hold that against it. As you weave through the game’s narrative branches, you’ll do some things you could only do in a video game, and you’ll discover a story that could only be told in a video game. The hook: Nine people are trapped in a facility where they’re forced to participate in a twisted version of the prisoner’s dilemma, and... well, the less I tell you, the better.

A Good Match For: Anyone who likes good stories—particularly grisly ones.

Not a Good Match For: People who don’t like to read, or can’t stand anime-ish characters and voices.

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Maybe you played through Final Fantasy X and X-2 back in the day and want to relive them. Or maybe you’ve never played them. Either way, the remastered versions of both games find a fine new home on the Vita. They’re perfect for on-the-go play, and given both games’ generous lengths should keep you occupied on commutes for months to come. And is there a better way to experience FFX’s endearingly awful voice acting than while wearing headphones on the bus? There is not.

A Good Match For: JRPG fans, Final Fantasy fans, Blitzball fans. (We’re not sure that last type of person exists.)

Not A Good Match For: JRPG haters, Final Fantasy haters.

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One might be tempted to describe Dragon Quest Builders as “the Dragon Quest version of Minecraft.” That’s an okay starting point, but the comparison ultimately fails to do this game justice. DBQ starts out by following Minecraft’s example, giving you a world completely made of crafting parts and letting you dismantle and rebuild it as you see fit. But it also notably changes the structure by framing everything within an actual narrative, introducing townspeople who send you on specific quests, and generally giving players much more structure to guide them along their way. Dragon Quest Builders is a fantastic game to play on the go, and a natural fit for the Vita.

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Purchase From: Available digitally on the PlayStation store.

Something is wrong with Isaac’s mom: She thinks that she can hear God. And God, disturbingly enough, has instructed her to kill Isaac. The only way Isaac can get out of that hellish situation is by jumping into his basement—which happens to be endless, and full of terrors. Thankfully, these demons can be defeated by directing Isaac’s tears, twin-stick shooter style, across Zelda-like dungeons. Well.. they’re like Zelda if Zelda was full of horrifying hellspawn, poop, and tons of mysterious items which you don’t know how to use...yet.

A Good Match For: Players who like a challenge, especially of the roguelike variety. A lot of the appeal with the Binding of Isaac is that it’s full of stuff you don’t grok the first time around.

Not A Good Match For: Players who are sensitive to gross stuff or jokes about religion, or people who are just looking to relax while playing a game.

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Purchase From: Available digitally from the PlayStation store.

How has this list changed? Read back through our update history:

Update 12/21/2016: We’ve added Dragon Quest Builders and removed Thomas Was Alone.

Update 4/13/2016: Rymdkapsel comes off the list and Trails of Cold Steel takes its place. We’ve also added video.

Update 11/26/2014: The Vita list gets a much needed update. We’ve cleared out LittleBigPlanet Vita, Super Stardust Delta, OlliOlli and Sound Shapes to make room for newcomers Final Fantasy X/X-2, The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, PixelJunk Shooter Ultimate, and Danganronpa 1&2.

Update 3-5-2014: We’ve wrestled with a number of good recent Vita games, but only one has made it all the way to the list: The rail-grinding OlliOlli, which bumps off Assassin’s Creed: Liberation.

Update 12-10-13: With a new design overhaul for The Bests come a few new games: Need For Speed: Most Wanted, Rayman: Origins and FIFA Soccer leave to make room for Tearaway, Zero Escape: Virtue’s Last Reward and Spelunky.

Update 8-21-2013: Vita price drop officially announced! Sony dropped the news at Gamescom yesterday, to the welcoming arms and ears of probably many gamers. If you were waiting for just this kind of news to hit before making your handheld hardware purchase, now is the time to check out what games you’ll want to get started with. We’ve made a few adjustments in light of the recent events, swapping in Hotline Miami, Rymdkapsel and Thomas Was Alone in place of Hot Shots Golf, Lumines and Where Is My Heart. Take a look at our new list below.

Update 11-12-2012: The quality of titles available for Sony’s handheld keeps getting better so we’re refreshing the list of what we think are the best games for the PlayStation Vita. New to the Bests for Vita are: Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation, Need for Speed Most Wanted and Persona 4 Golden. Games that fell off the list include Mutant Blobs Attack, Wipeout 2048 and Escape Plan. They’re still good but their replacements are just a wee bit more impressive.

Want more of the best games on each system? Check out our complete directory:

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Note: While some games on this list are download-only, all of them can be purchased on the Vita’s online store. If you buy any of these games through the retail links in this post, our parent company may get a small share of the sale through the retailers’ affiliates program.

6 Best PS Vita Games to Look Forward to in 2019

Hamsterdam

Despite the looming end of the PS Vita, and perhaps Sony handheld consoles in general, there are still some great games coming this year. Here are the best PS Vita games to look forward to in 2019.

The future does not look very bright for the PS Vita handheld, especially when Sony announced last May it would cease to create physical game carts for the platform after March 31, 2019, and then said a few months later it would end production on the handheld itself in 2019.

Luckily not all is lost. As there are developers that will continue to support the console digitally.

Hamsterdam is a “brawling hamster-fu” beat-em-up created by Muse Games, developer of Guns of Icarus Online. It combines button-mashing with rhythm mechanics to defeat the chinchilla Marlo and his Vermin Gang from taking over the city of Hamsterdam.

There are also scrolling platforming levels with a scooter, and players can fully customize the hamster hero Pimm with clothes and accessories that contain bonus stats. Hamsterdam is scheduled to launch for the PS Vita in March 2019.

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Catherine: Full Body

Catherine: Full Body is a remaster of Atlus’s puzzle platformer Catherine, which released for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in 2011.

The game still retains the story of slacker Vincent Brooks as he is caught between his marriage-talking girlfriend Katherine and his affair with a younger stranger similarly named Catherine.

Also, Vincent is caught in strange nightmares where he must climb block structures or be destroyed by giant monsters, thus killing him in real life.

The game is a mix between conversing with Vincent’s friends and lovers during the day, and overcoming puzzling block obstacles with quick thinking at night.

The remaster includes a third love interest called Rin, new gameplay features, an online mode, and additional chapters and endings.

Catherine: Full Body will launch for PlayStation Vita in Japan on Feb. 14, and is planned for western countries and Europe sometime after.

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Shovel Knight: King of Cards

It is hard to believe that Shovel Knight is still receiving new content since launching in 2014.

Besides the original Shovel Knight campaign, developer Yacht Club Games has added the Plague of Shadows and Specter of Torment campaigns, complete with new characters and mechanics.

The upcoming King of Cards campaign is no different with players controlling King Knight in this prequel telling how he became one of the eight members of the Order of No Quarter.

King Knight has a dash attack to bash enemy and clear gaps, while his royal cape can be used to deflect projectiles.

The expansion contains 30 new stages, enemies, bosses, and a playable card minigame. Shovel Knight: King of Cards is a free expansion to PS Vita owners of Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove, the game’s complete edition, and is launching on April 9.

6 Best PS Vita Games to Look Forward to in 2019

Shakedown: Hawaii

Shakedown: Hawaii is the next game by Vblank Entertainment, developer of the open world action-adventure game Retro City Rampage DX. The new title sees the previous game’s protagonist 30 years older and the CEO of a massive company.

Similar to how Retro City Rampage DX was a parody of retro games and crime culture in 8-bit graphics, Shakedown: Hawaii is a parody of white collar crime with missions of “acquiring businesses, sabotaging competitors, ‘rezoning’ land, and shaking down shops for protection money” in 16-bit graphics.

Players can use their expanded cash flow to buy more weapons, vehicles, upgrades, clothes, and more.

Shakedown: Hawaii is scheduled to launch for PlayStation Vita sometime in Q1 2019.

6 Best PS Vita Games to Look Forward to in 2019

Monster Crown

Monster Crown seems little more than a darker version of Pokemon at first glance. The game does have over 200 monsters to collect and battle, but another focus of the title places a big emphasis on breeding.

When two Pokemon breed to make an egg, the offspring is usually the lower evolutionary form of the parents. Monster Crown spins that concept by creating an entirely new species of monster through crossbreeding.

“Your creations are truly independent, new species,” according to the game’s Kickstarter page. “Appearance, color, moves, typing, stats, and even the moves the monster is capable of learning are all inherited. After a few generations, it will be impossible to tell what monsters you even started with.”

Monster Crown is scheduled to launch for the PS Vita in February 2019.

6 Best PS Vita Games to Look Forward to in 2019

Hardcore

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Before Battlefield developer DICE turned the multiplayer shooter into a gigantic franchise, the studio mostly created pinball and racing video games.

One game it planned to release in 1994 was Hardcore, a 2D run-and-gun with lots of power-ups and enemies to shoot.

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The game was originally developed on the Commodore Amiga, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, and Sega Mega-CD, and was “about 99% finished,” according to the game’s website.

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The game was put aside to start game development on next generation hardware, mainly Sony’s PlayStation.

Now, DICE co-founder Fredrik Liljegren and Strictly Limited Games will be finishing the game after 25 years with both digital and physical releases. Hardcore is planned to finally launch for PlayStation Vita sometime in 2019.

Those are our picks for the best PS Vita games to look forward to in 2019. What other games are you excited for? Let us know in the comments down below.