Last month's dazzling PS Vita game Gravity Rush - released in Japan as Gravity Daze - has also been confirmed for a North American release, on June 12. Marking the announcement is a new Gravity Rush trailer which Sony is offering, along with a few screenshots posted on its PlayStation blog. Although that earlier video with 15 minutes of gameplay still kicks a whole lot more gravity-defying ass.



Meanwhile, the game's Japanese version will enjoy three weeks of downloadable content, with one new DLC pack launching each week, starting from March 22. (...)

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Last update - Feb 27, 21:27 GMT (16:27 EST, 13:27 PST)

The latest Pokemon games have just been announced by Game Freak's Junichi Masuda, who appeared on Sunday morning's Pokemon Smash TV show in Japan to reveal a pair of sequels for the Nintendo (3)DS. They are Pokemon Black 2 and Pokemon White 2 - collectively known as Pokemon Black & White 2 - and they're planned for simultaneous release over there in June 2012.



A teasing official website is up already, offering little more than the above key visual image of the two contrasting sequels. The names of their respective Legendary Pokemon (...)

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Last update - Feb 23, 12:46 GMT (07:46 EST, 04:46 PST)

A North American release has finnally been announced for The Last Story, during today's Nintendo Direct online broadcast. This fantasy RPG, originally co-created by Hironobu Sakaguchi's Mistwalker studio for the Wii, will be published in North America by Xseed Games, during summer 2012. But first, of course, there's the European release happening this Friday, February 22. Now... who wants a wallpaper?



Another fresh North American release confirmation is also coming from Atlus, who will bring Persona 4: The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena this summer (...)

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Namco Bandai is planning a Bakemonogatari Portable game for the PSP, as revealed today in the Dengeki PlayStation magazine. The game will obviously be based on NisiOisiN's supernatural comedy novels that also inspired the 2009 TV anime series Bakemonogatari. It will feature 3D characters, recreations of scenes from the anime, and two player support via ad-hoc, with its genre currently listed as "Under Investigation"...



The latest addition to the Amagami franchise will be a PC game titled Amagami GS (Gian-ism Special), releasing in Japan this March 30 as (...)

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Last update - Feb 14, 17:39 GMT (12:39 EST, 09:39 PST)

The 2010 otome game Hanayaka Nari, Waga Ichizoku is getting an anime adaptation of some sort, according to the cover of the April issue of B's LOG magazine (Enterbrain publishes said magazine for female gamers). The original PSP game, also known as Hanaichi, was developed by Otomate and released by Idea Factory, in July 2010.



It's not yet clear if this Hanaichi anime project will be a TV series or just an OVA, but more details are expected to surface (...)

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Last update - Feb 10, 21:05 GMT (16:05 EST, 13:05 PST)

The upcoming Library War anime film, based on Hiro Arikawa's light novels about soldiers defending libraries, has revealed its final title - Toshokan Sensou: Kakumei no Tsubasa, or Library War: The Wings of Revolution - as well as its main cast, which is actually returning unchanged from the 2008 TV anime series. The movie is created by Production I.G for an early summer 2012 premiere in Japan.



The upcoming TV anime series Shining Hearts has also been officially labeled this week. With the opening of its official website, we learn that it will be titled (...)

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An Arcana Famiglia TV anime series, based on last year's otome game of the same title, has just been announced for a Summer (i.e. July) 2012 debut in Japan, with studio J.C. Staff doing the animation. The original girls-oriented visual novel was developed for the PSP by HuneX, and it was released in Japan by Comfort, last October.



In Arcana Famiglia: La storia della Arcana Famiglia, players take on the role of a heroine who spent her childhood days in a lonely, remote place with her mother, Sumire, and her servant, Luca. The Christmas she turned 16, she was invited to go and live together with (...)

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Conception: Please Have My Baby!! is a fantasy school / romance RPG in which you must... *gasp*... save the world by bonding and having children with 12 maidens. You may know it already, since word about it first came to light last autumn. But now, its makers from Spike are finally ready to announce its release date: April 26, on the PSP by the way. They also detailed some of the game's characters and cast - you can read about them over on CR, or if you just want to see some pics, you need not stray any farther than the local gallery.




Last year's web-anime +Tic Elder Sister might be continuing with more episodes, or maybe even a new, full-fledged anime series - given some recent comments made by (...)

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Last update - Feb 8, 11:05 GMT (06:05 EST, 03:05 PST)

Aside from the upcoming Accel World TV anime series that's starting this April, another new media branching based on Reki Kawahara's light novels was announced by Namco Bandai. You guessed: an Two Accel World games! Strategies, it would appear, currently in development for the PlayStation 3 and PSP. Since details are non-existant at this time, we'll just have to do with a gallery update featuring the "future teen" story's sweet Kuroyukihime.



In other gaming news, Strike Witches: Shirogane no Tsubasa - that Xbox 360 side-scrolling shooter from 2010 - is getting a PSP version, according to (...)

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The kids' anime franchise Jewelpet grows even stronger this year, with not only its 4th TV anime series, titled Jewelpet Kira Deco!, but also the first Jewelpet Movie. The new TV season will be airing in Japan from April 7, and the movie's premiere is planned there for August 11, as a double-feature with another new anime film - Onegai My Melody Yuu & Ai.



A PSP game based on the Phi Brain anime series is being announced for release this May, via a newly opened website. Arc System Works (Guilty Gear, BlazBlue) is developing (...)

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