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
This week, Atlus USA put out a character class trailer for the Ninja class. Ninjas attack quickly, can inflict debilitating status ailments, and make use of a variety of tricky techniques to give themselves an edge over opponents. The substitution technique “Decoy” allows them to counterattack while taking no damage. They’re here to win – don’t mess with them. As usual, Atlus’s #EMDMysterybox promotion is continuing, so share the video …read more
Etrian Mystery Dungeon’s release date in Japan is March 5th. As of this article’s writing, that day in Japan has already arrived and interested customers are now able to pick up the game. Earlier this week, Siliconera produced an article on what additional spoils Japanese gamers could expect to find if they pick up a first print copy of Etrian Mystery Dungeon. The bonus this time is a “new” publication …read more
As noted by Siliconera, the official Persona 4: Dancing All Night website has a webpage listing all the songs featured in the game. For the most part, these are original and remixed songs from earlier Persona games, although “Dance” is a new song made specifically for this game. You can find the complete list below. At the moment, you can listen to the first three songs on the website. Dance …read more