When The Suffering came out five years ago, it sounded like all kinds of terrible. It starred a bad-ass dude named Torque who fought torture monsters in a grungy death row prison block, and he could hulk out for maximum carnage, and it had like a dozen different guns and gnarly dismemberments and shit [...]

So, then! Sega’s bringing the Phantasy Star MMO series to the DS next week, and the result looks quite nice. Of particular note is the brilliant use of the DS’s touch screen as a freeform chatpad, where everything you write or draw on the touchscreen is displayed in a speech bubble over your character’s head. [...]