With numerous solid franchises and an impressive roster of manga-anime games under its belt, it seems Namco Bandai will be expanding operations to new pastures. For that, they will be trying their hand out on the online PC gaming market, and to handle that responsibility will be their new division, Namco Bandai Online.

The PS3 is one remarkable piece of hardware. As their ad campaign says: "It only does everything." Judging by its skyrocketing sales right now, a lot of people like the PS3. One of those is Haruki Nakayama, chairman of Marvelous Entertainment, which for the most part has released games for the Wii. Now, Nakayama has expressed through his blog that he wants to develop for the PS3.

Remember the E3 teaser for Left 4 Dead 2 (Xbox 360, PC)? It's the one where the voiceover goes, "...and if we run out of bullets, baby, they're gonna wish we hadn't." Got a laugh out of that one, and sure enough, you'll be packing ten melee weapons to pummel hordes of infected with. We've got the list of those whacking tools right here.

Continuing their Japan-only Power Pro series is Konami with the release Power Pros Touch into the App Store. The game is the iPhone and iPod Touch adaptation of the Wii and PS2 title, MLB Power Pros, which features goofy cartoon graphics while going for some measure of physical and statistical realism.

Taking the spotlight in this week's edition of our On Shelves post, the 2K Sports baseball franchise returns in The Bigs 2, which is now out in stores and waiting to be bought by baseball and sports game fans. The Xbox 360, PS3, PSP, and Wii release is accompanied by this Opus Launch trailer, which you can catch after the jump.

Minus the digital downloads, this has to be one of the smallest batches we've seen on On Shelves. Talk about a dry batch - no AAA titles in this lineup. Anyway, there's still ArmA II for the PC if you're a die-hard FPS fan, or if you're a baseball fan, 2K Sports' The Bigs is also coming out this week. For the other two titles, read on for this edition of On Shelves This Week.

This week's iPhone Warrior is gonna be a lot different for two reasons: First is because we have quite a payload of games for you right here; and second is because I'm the one writing it *evil laugh* - Gino's probably lying on the beach completely drunk right now. Wait, that was me two days ago... Anyway, we do have a lot of iPhone games that you might be interested in, and one of 'em even got raps for being racist. There's also a shiny new iPhone in town. How shiny? Try 24-carat shiny! Better be comfy on that chair 'cause you're about to have a good read for the next few minutes - at least I'm hoping that you will.

Shooters, platformers and puzzle games aren't the only games that iPhone and iPod Touch owners can find on the App Store. There's the occasional sports game too, like Com2US's Baseball Slugger: Home Run Race 3D.

Grab those baseball clubs. The Godfather is coming Home. Or so it seems. At the PlayStation EU forums, someone's taken the liberty of snapping some shots of posters that have appeared above his Home plaza announcing that Godfather II is coming soon to Home. Could it be in the form of threads, maybe a virtual launch event, or hell, why not a Home space? Sony, after all, is planning to release some three spaces per month, and this looks like it's got a shot at it.

A new version is out for JPCSP, the Java-based PSP emulator for the PC. This version fixes a UMD drive issue, though no further details on its implications were released.

Download: jpcsp v0.2 revision 955