Between PS1 Classics and newer games like Persona 4 Golden, the unheralded PlayStation Vita has become an essential beast for JRPG fans and today brings news of more cool Japanese stuff for western gamers.
Freedom Wars, announced for Japan last year, is coming to North America at some point in 2014. Sony announced the news on their YouTube channel alongside this new trailer (above) for the upcoming Vita game, which lets you team up with other players to take down monsters and shoot your way through prison colonies.…
Guide that sweet little horned girl. Protect her.
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Last Fall, the developers of modern JRPG Citizens of Earth took to Kickstarter to raise $100,000 for their project. Sadly, it didn't work out. But now, thanks to Atlus, the game is going to be completed on time after all.
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Our heroine, ladies and gentlemen.
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Muramasa: The Demon Blade was truly a lovely game. While it was originally released in 2009, there are now allegations that it's been copied by a Korean game developer. There are claims that the knock-off even stole Muramasa's original code.
Borderlands 2 comes to Vita on May 13, Sony just announced. Starting May 6, you can also get a bundle with the game, a Vita Slim, and an 8 GB memory card for $200. (Not that 8 GB is enough; if you really want to take advantage of the Vita—which is a great system!—you'll need a 32 GB card.)
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Toukiden [討鬼伝] is the samurai vs demon hunting game that was released last year on the PS Vita and PSP. Now, Tecmo Koei has announced Toukiden Kiwami [討鬼伝 極], an upgraded version of the original with additional story, equipment, and enemies.
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Borderlands 2 on the PS Vita looks... pretty much like you'd expect. Courtesy of YouTuber AtomixVG, here's four minutes' worth of footage of the portable version of Gearbox's loot-happy shooter, straight from this year's Game Developers Conference. Vid's above, enjoy.
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Luftrausers makes you feel like you're constantly in the danger zone.
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Retro-styled indie horror game Home is coming to PS4 and PS Vita this year. Released in June 2012 for PC, Home has got numerous updates and lots of new content since then—all of which will be part of the game's console versions. Check out the creator's post over at the PlayStation Blog for more details.
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Hohokum is coming for the PS4, PS3 and Vita. It's a beautiful game, one I've been hanging out for since last year, but I'm now even more excited after hearing about the soundtrack.
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Let's see. The game is Destiny of Spirits: Asia. That's voice actress Kana Hanazawa. But she's voicing Tsukuyomi, the female character on the television screen. Who's voicing the owl? Why Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida.
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This PlayStation Vita commercial is nearly two years old. If you live in the United Kingdom you've probably seen it before (I don't, and haven't). I post it tonight, though, because of who made the clip: Cary Fukunaga.
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Freedom Wars is the upcoming hunting game for the PS Vita where you play a prisoner working off a million year sentence. In the game, players work together along with android companions called "Accessories." Apparently these Accessories can talk and I want to hear what they have to say.
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A Vita game I can't stop playing: If you've got a Vita, check out Surge Deluxe, a highly enjoyable (and addictive) electro-charged tile-matching game from Futurlab. At a certain point it clicks, and you'll be hooked. Futurlab's next game will be Velocity 2X for Vita and PS4.
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The PlayStation Vita is the $250 $200 handheld that the world either desperately needed or needed not at all. It could go either way in this era of rampant cell phone gaming, where many games are played with nary the press of a button or flick of a stick.
Fez is coming to all PlayStation platforms on March 25. Polytron's indie hit is a cross-buy offering, meaning the copy you buy for PS3, PS4, or PS Vita is good on all the other devices, and save files may be shared among them.
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This week we're going down to South Park to have ourselves a time. Other releases include the next episode of The Walking Dead: Season Two and hot damn, some simulation farmin', hell yeah.
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