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Dungeons & Dragons Tactics Walkthrough (PSP)
  
 Release Date:06/19/2007
ESRB Rating: Rating Pending
Genre: RPG
Publisher: Atari
Developer: Kuju Entertainment
 
Dungeons & Dragons is a brand synonymous with the PC, providing the role-playing genre with the inspiration for some of the finest games ever made. It's unashamedly "beardy" and reduces grown men to babbling wrecks spouting nonsense about dice rolls and saving throws. "Argh, you caught me flat-footed!"

You may find it slightly bizarre, then, that Atari and Kuju have decided to create a brand new D&D adventure for PSP.

It's due out later this year, and will be an unflinchingly hardcore addition to the RPG catalogue. It's turn-based, for starters, and rivals its desktop counterparts for customisation options and depth. Tactics will also offer a fancy multiplayer mode that will let you group up online or locally to tackle dastardly dungeons together. Which all sounds very sumptuous.

So, to coincide with our yearly adventure out of the house, we decided to corner D&D Tactics producer Lawrence Liberty about this rather strange addition to the PSP line-up.

Eurogamer: What made you decide the PSP was the right platform for a traditional Dungeons & Dragons outing? Are you worried that you might be pitching to the wrong audience?

Lawrence Liberty: There were a couple of reasons behind going with the PSP as the platform of choice for D&D Tactics. We felt that the PSP demographic skewed a bit older, and that there was a dearth of tactical RPGs on the console.