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Game slated for October 12 in Japan, January 23 in N. America/Europe Square Enix began streaming a trailer for Tokyo RPG Factory's Lost Sphear game on Wednesday. The video shows gameplay footage from the game, and shows both battle and the world map. The game will launch in Japan for PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch on October 12. The game will arrive in North America and Europe for PS4, Switch, and PC on January 23, 2018. Players in North America and Europe who pre-order the digital edition through the PlayStation Store will receive a "Memoirs of the Moon" Dynamic Theme for the PS4, and the two music tracks "Market Town Marpennig" and "Town of Elgarthe." Physical editions for PS4 and Switch will be available only through the Square Enix Online Store, and they will come with download codes for the "Town's Theme #1" and "Town's Theme #2" tracks. The website's description of the game is as follows: The next evolution in this new golden age of JRPG's arrives with LOST

4-player co-op dark fantasy slated for winter Game developer Inti Creates unveiled its new game titled Dragon: Marked for Death on Thursday. The "dark fantasy style action RPG" is slated for release on the Nintendo Switch in winter. The game will feature the return of staff members from Mega Man Zero, including director Ryota Ito, character designer Toru Nakayama, chief character graphics designer Horikatsu Maeda, scenario writer and world planner Makoto Yabe, sound producer Ippō Yamada, main programmer Akihiro Shishido, lead programmer Shinichi Sema, and producer Takuya Aizu. The game is a 2D side-scrolling action game that supports up to four players through local or online multiplayer. Players pick one of four classes with different abilities: the Princess, the Warrior, the Shinobi, or the Witch. The game features single stages of sizes from 200 to 400 screens and over 30 main quests, as well as side quests. Inti Creates work

Kensho Ono, Kaito Ishikawa, Daisuke Namikawa, Satoru Hino, Yuuki Kaji, more star Otomate, a brand for romance games aimed at female players, announced at Sunday's "10th Anniversary Otomate Party 2017" event that its upcoming Library Cross Infinite game app has a television anime adaptation in the works. Otomate and Wright Flyer Studios are collaborating on the "love-to-infinity puzzle role-playing game" for release on iOS and Android devices this year. In the game, a medical student named Shiina and nine male partners are trapped in a certain dimensional realm with many ancient texts and an enormous mysterious clock. Together, they must find a way to escape by uncovering clues before the clock strikes "13." The voice cast and characters include: Shiina (no voice cast) Kensho Ono as Satoru Kaito Ishikawa as Nao Daisuke Namikawa as Akora Satoru Hino as Eichi Yuuki Kaji as Tsukasa Yuuki Ono as Rekka Ryohei Kimura as Sō Shinnosuke Tachibana as T

Post-apocalyptic RPG launches in 2018 for Xbox One, PS4, PC Gaming website IGN began streaming a 17-minute gameplay video of Bandai Namco Entertainment's Code Vein post-apocalyptic role-playing game on Tuesday. The video previews the game's combat and exploration. Bandai Namco Entertainment describes the game: In the not too distant future, a mysterious disaster has brought collapse to the world as we know it. Towering skyscrapers, once symbols of prosperity, are now lifeless graves of humanity's past pierced by the Thorns of Judgment. At the center of the destruction lies a hidden society of Revenants called Vein. This final stronghold is where the remaining few fight to survive, blessed with Gifts of power in exchange for their memories and a thirst for blood. Give into the bloodlust fully and risk becoming one of the Lost, fiendish ghouls devoid of any remaining humanity. The company plans to release the game in 2018 on the Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC. [Via Si

PS4/PS Vita game slated for 2018 NIS America announced on Thursday that it will release the role-playing game The Lost Child in North America and Europe in 2018. The game will be available physically and digitally for PlayStation 4 and digitally for PlayStation Vita. The company began streaming an announcement trailer: El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron director and character designer Sawaki Takeyasu is helming the project. NIS America describes the game's story, which is connected to El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron: Occult journalist, Hayato Ibuki, encounters a strange girl during his investigations into a series of mysterious suicides in Tokyo. She implores that Hayato must live, before bestowing upon him a mystical device that allows him to capture celestial and arcane creatures. He is now thrust into a world beyond our own, home to horrific demons and celestial beings. In it, he must delve into dungeons called Layers and solve the mystery of the device. Wh

Trailer also unveiled for latest by Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi The official website for Terra Battle 2, the newest installment in the "Terra World" franchise by Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi's Mistwalker game studio, announced on Tuesday that the game will launch in Japan and North America on September 21 on iOS and Android devices. The PC version's release date has not yet been revealed. The site is also streaming a new trailer. In addition, the original Terra Battle game will add the Class Z character "Haruhikari" from Terra Battle 2 beginning on September 20. Sakaguchi introduced Terra Battle 2 alongside the Terra Wars game, both for iOS, Android, and PC. The games are part of his new "Terra World" franchise, which will have a similar numbering system to Final Fantasy. "Each installment of the 'Terra' franchise will have its disctinct feel, unique from any other," Sakaguchi wrote in a message on the Terra Battle 2 website. "I (secretly) wish

Trailer previews 2 of 8 playable characters; demo already available Nintendo began streaming a trailer on Wednesday for "Project Octopath Traveler," Square Enix's tentatively titled original role-playing game project for the Nintendo Switch platform. The video details two of the eight playable characters in the game, and also previews the exploration and combat portions of the game. The game already has a demo available to download. The game is slated for a simultaneous worldwide release in 2018. The same team who worked on the Bravely Default game is working on the game. Square Enix released the original Bravely Default: Flying Fairy game for the Nintendo 3DS in October 2012. An enhanced version of the game, titled Bravely Default: For the Sequel in Japan, shipped in Japan on the Nintendo 3DS in December 2013 and in North America in February 2014. Square Enix released the Bravely Second: End Layer Nintendo 3DS sequel game in Japan in April 2015, in Europe in Febru

Game ships on October 12 in Japan, January 23 in N. America/Europe Square Enix began streaming a pre-launch trailer for Tokyo RPG Factory's Lost Sphear game on Wednesday. The video previews the main characters and includes gameplay footage. The game will launch in Japan for PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch on October 12. The game will arrive in North America and Europe for PS4, Switch, and PC on January 23, 2018. Players in North America and Europe who pre-order the digital edition through the PlayStation Store will receive a "Memoirs of the Moon" Dynamic Theme for the PS4, and the two music tracks "Market Town Marpennig" and "Town of Elgarthe." Physical editions for PS4 and Switch will be available only through the Square Enix Online Store, and they will come with download codes for the "Town's Theme #1" and "Town's Theme #2" tracks. The official website's description of the game is as follows: The next evolution in this new golden age of JRPG's arrives with LOST S

8 main characters unveiled for PS4/Vita game The PlayStation Japan YouTube channel began streaming a teaser trailer for Spike Chunsoft's Zanki Zero PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita game. The video details the game's premise and characters. The game focuses on the last eight humans left alive, each one labelled with a different sin: police officer Minamo (pride), editor Haruto (sloth), rich young lady Yuma (gluttony), doctor Mamoru (greed), florist Rinko (lust), farmer Zen (wrath), artist Ryō (envy), and a girl named Sachika (original sin). They exist because their bodies are human clones. They will age and die withing 13 days, but they can be reborn. The team working on the game previously developed the Danganronpa series, and includes Yoshinori Terasawa and Takayuki Sugawara, among others.

App casts Hiro Shimono, Naomi Ōzora, Maaya Sakamoto, Yu Kobayashi, more Bandai Namco Entertainment unveiled God Eater 3, the previously teased new console game in the God Eater franchise, with its first trailer during the "God Eater Latest Info Unveiling Livestream" event on Saturday. The event, which ran during the franchise's live orchestra concert, also announced the smartphone role-playing game God Eater Resonant Ops. Below is the promotional video for the franchise's first smartphone RPG: The story moves the setting "at long last" toward the Fenrir Headquarters, four years after God Eater 2 Rage Burst in the year 2078. The cast and their characters include: Hiro Shimono as Protagonist (male) Naomi Ōzora as Protagonist (female) Yu Kobayashi as Sera Daiki Yamashita as Alek Maaya Uchida as Tiona Kaori Nazuka as Philine Yūichi Nakamura as Cyrus Kana Asumi as Erina Maaya Sakamoto as Alisa Bandai Namco Entertainment is pre-registering u