Back in October 2014, Imageepoch announced that they would be releasing a strategy RPG game called Stella Glow to celebrate their 10th anniversary in 2015. They have now announced that the game will be launched on June 4 in Japan for the price of 5,990 yen. What they also announced is that Sega will be publishing the game. The game’s producer, Hideyuki Mizutani, explained that development of the game had …read more
Atlus USA has announced (via Twitter) that Etrian Odyssey 2 Untold: The Fafnir Knight for the Nintendo 3DS will be released in North America this summer! While it’s not entirely surprising to see the game being localized, it’s still good to see confirmation. Unfortunately, there’s no news yet on a potential EU release for the game. You can read the official press release from Atlus here:
Siliconera translated the latest press release by Nepro Japan about the fate of tri-Ace after being acquired last month. In case you missed the news, mobile company Nepro Japan purchased the RPG developer to expand their gaming business.
Sega have shared the latest gameplay trailer and a shortened version of the opening movie for Hatsune Miku: Project Mirai Deluxe. The game is the sibling series to Project Diva exclusively for the Nintendo 3DS, which stars chibi Nendoroid versions of the Vocaloid cast and gameplay suited for the 3DS’s face buttons and touchscreen. Sega is bringing the game overseas as Hatsune Miku: Project Mirai DX, scheduled for release on …read more
Sega and NHN’s Japan-only free-to-play mobile and browser game Valkyria Chronicles Duel, which launched in July 2012, is scheduled to end operation on April 22. Unlike its predecessors, the game was essentially a card-battle game without an actual storyline. The goal was primarily to collect cards of the characters featured in the three original Valkyria Chronicles games and to use those cards to build a squad, which you then pit …read more
Yakuzafan.com recently broke some awesome news – a live theatre production of Yakuza 1 is coming to Japan! With some translation assistance from Yakuza-focused translation group KHHsubs, they write that the play will feature 8 showings from April 24th to April 28th. The shows will be held at Akasaka ACT Theatre in Tokyo, a performing arts theatre. The theatre’s website doesn’t show any showtime listings on the “Schedule” section of …read more
Gematsu reports that first-print copies of Devil Survivor 2: Record Breaker will include quite the assortment of additional spoils: a CD soundtrack featuring arrangements of in-game tracks and a set of decals (featuring the Protagonist, his classmate Io Nitta and friend Daichi Shijima, and the logo for the mysterious JPs organization) all stuffed into a larger collectible box. The contents are laid out in the image above. Additionally, Atlus USA …read more
MMOCulture writes that Phantasy Star Online 2: Episode 2 recently launched in South East Asia. The game’s SEA website features a news post with new content that is available in the second episode. This includes new quests, a new race (Deuman), a new character class (Samurai) and a host of other gameplay tweaks like raising main and sub class level caps to 60 and 40, respectively. New enemies and weapons …read more
Ars Technica has posted a list of the sales of the top 400 games on Steam in 2014 and it contains various Sega games, including Valkyria Chronicles which sold a total of 210,299 copies. To put this into perspective, when the game was released on PS3 in the US in 2008, it only sold 33,000 copies in its first month. While the PC version was sold at a lower price, …read more
Atlus has revealed another character trailer for Persona 4: Dancing All Night, this time featuring Kanami Mashita. While her character was only mentioned by name in Persona 4, she’ll now be one of the playable characters in Persona 4: Dancing All Night. Kanami is an idol working for the same company as Rise, and became more popular after Rise’s (temporary) retirement. She’s also one of the five members of the …read more