Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops The latest Metal Gear Solid game really delivers on all fronts with an excellent story, a deep campaign, and a complete set of unique multiplayer features. This all new action game in Hideo Kojima's legendary Metal Gear Solid series really hits the mark, delivering the ultimate game of stealth to the PSP. Offering an original storyline that follows the events of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, the game's real strength is an innovative online mode that lets gamers recruit their own comrades to form a unique fighting force. Players learn more about their favorite characters and how the events of later Metal Gear games were set into motion. A great story combined with an even greater online component makes MGS: Portable Ops our PSP Game of the Year.

LocoRoco What do you get when you mix a game based on how oil reacts with water coupled with a quirky child-like soundtrack, colorful and simple level design and gameplay that revolves around tilting the game world to move? You get Sony's LocoRoco, a great and innovative game where you gather cute fluid moving creatures called Roco's. While the concept is pretty simple, the gameplay is challenging, the soundtrack is catchy and charming and the characters are simply adorable. LocoRoco shows what's possible on the PSP without even using a fraction of the system's horsepower. For being so cute and for putting it's wonderful tunes into our heads and on our lips, LocoRoco gets a thumbs up from GameShark.

Tekken Dark Resurrection Tekken: Dark Resurrection for the PSP is the defacto fighting game for the PSP, delivering spot-on graphics, along with all the elements and style you'd expect from a Tekken game. Some of the best graphics to hit the PSP so far, Tekken Dark Resurrection builds on the content and characters from Tekken 5, adding more characters, more moves, new backdrops, new customization options, and a whole lot more. Tekken Dark Resurrection is probably the best fighting game on the PSP to date and deserves to be honored as one of the best PSP games of 2006.

Sega Genesis Collection I've said it elsewhere and i'll say it again: you have to love any game compilation that gives you two of the best games ever made for the Genesis: Phantasy Star II and Phantasy Star IV. Sega's Sega Genesis Collection is a great because it does just that and delivers a lot of other great games including Golden Axe, Altered Beast, Alex Kidd in Enchanted Castle and many other great games from the 16-bit era. These games look good on the PSP, and all the extras found in the other versions of this collection are found in the PSP version. The Sega Genesis Collection is the definitive 16-bit collection for the PSP and that's why it makes our best of 2006 list for the PSP.

Justice League Heroes The PSP version of Snowblind's super hero powered action RPG is an almost exact replica of the game on the PS2 and Xbox and offers two additional characters to sweaten the pot. Just like on the Xbox, Justice League Heroes is game that renews the faith in games based on licensed properties. It takes a franchise with a grand legacy (bolstered by several cartoon series including Justice League and Justice League Unlimited) and serves it up with an alternate storyline packed with DC Comics universe references, fun characters, a strong line-up of bad guys and a decent amount of popular DC Comics favorites . But even if you ignore all of that, it's really hard to ignore the various layers of gameplay icing on this super hero powered cake. Justice League Heroes delivers a solid and fun action role-playing game that offers a vast amount of replayability. For delivering all this and giving us the coolest depiction of Batman and The Flash, Justice League Heroes gets a well deserved spot in our list of the best of 2006.