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Do you like games about undead pegleg criminal penguins being heroic? Of course you do. That’s why you’re so excited about Prinny 1+2: Exploded and Reloaded coming to the Switch on October 13. It’s two Disgaea-adjacent PlayStation Portable games, now playable on a system that’s not dead, dood.

The ultimate version of the original Disgaea is now available on mobile devices. Disgaea 1 Complete mobile has all the content of the console version plus an auto-battle feature and the ability to fast-forward battles up to eight times normal speed. Get it on iTunes or Google Play for ... $32.99? Yikes.

Disaster Report 4: Summer Memories about escaping a crumbling city is finally coming to PS4, Switch, and PC on April 7. The game was originally slated for PS3 but was cancelled after Japan was hit by an earthquake and tsunami back in 2011.

Here’s something to do while waiting for all those huge new games to come out in early 2020. Disgaea 4 Complete+ arrives on the Switch and PlayStation 4 this fall. It’s all the DLC, all the characters and hundreds of hours of turn-based tactics, plus a whole lot of sardines, dood.

Now that the PlayStation 4 versions of the first two games are out, it’s time for part three. The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III for the PlayStation 4 comes to North America on September 24, Europe on September 27 and Australia October 4. Hopefully I’ll finish the rest of the series by then. 

Big JRPG news: Trails of Cold Steel III is coming to PS4 in North America this fall. Here’s the twist: This one is published by NIS America rather than XSEED, which published the previous two Cold Steel games. That’s a bit worrisome, given the nuanced writing in Trails games and NISA’s previous work with Ys VIII,… Read more

NIS America has announced that its online store suffered a data breach, sending out an email to customers about the hack. The online store was taken down by NIS America as the company for maintenance to prevent future breaches.

Remember last week when we reported Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana would be out on PC January 30? About that ... turns out NIS America underestimated the work it would take to make the game play smoothly on PC, and have once more pushed the release to an undetermined later date. Welp.

The excellent Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana finally arrives on PC January 30. The release date coincides with a promised localization update for the action RPG, bringing re-recorded audio and re-translated text to PC, PlayStation 4 and Vita. Thank goodness.