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With Atelier Escha & Logy just recently hitting the PS3 in Japan – and coming everywhere else in March 2014 – Gust has announced that an anime adaptation of the title is in development. Atelier Escha & Logy: Alchemists of the Dusk Sky is being handled by Studio Gokumi and planned for a 2014 release.

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As readers of the title may have surmised, Tecmo Koei announced the release date for Atelier Escha & Logy: Alchemist of Dusk Sky. The latest Atelier game will hit European PS3s on March 7, with the North American release to follow on March 11.

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XSEED Games has announced that Ragnarok Odyssey Ace will indeed see a release in North America and Europe. Both the PS Vita and PS3 versions will be priced at $39.99, with the Vita package including a bonus soundtrack CD. Ace goes global in early 2014.

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Actor Jay Preston will reportedly be on the cast for Final Fantasy XV, having worked previously on the iOS title The Ories and the PC game Snark Busters: High Society. His role in the game’s cast was not stated.

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Fairy Fender F, which released in Japan on October 10, will be getting a demo version on the PlayStation Store. Assuming the language barrier is not an option for the rest of you, feel free to check out said demo here when it goes live on October 31, better known as “tomorrow.”

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Idea Factory’s Sorcery Saga: Curse of the Great Curry God will be making its way to Europe, with Rising Star Games handling the localization. Europeans can begin saving their local curry joint from the invisible hand of market forces starting in early 2014.

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NIS America has revealed that Ys: Memories of Celceta for PS Vita will see a European release, with a launch window of early 2014.

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Following the release of The Legend of Heroes: Sen no Kiseki last month, developer Falcom has announced that a new entry in the series is in development. Currently untitled, the next game is planned to coincide with the series’ 10th anniversary in June 2014.

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As the title suggests, Nippon Ichi is including the “Disgaea Vocal Song: The Best” soundtrack CD with preordered copies of Disgaea 4: Return. The PS Vita redux of Disgaea 4 hits Japan on January 30.

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Okay, so they call it a “Committee to preserve the quality of future games in the series,” but I like the way I put it better. Anyway, Square Enix has assembled a group of internal series veterans with the aim of quality control for the Final Fantasy series. What this entails has not been specified, but the group’s members include Hajime Tabata (Type-0‘s director and XV‘s co-director), Motomu Toriyama (XIII saga director), Yoshinori Kitase (XIII saga producer), and Naoki Yoshida (XIV‘s lord and savior director and producer).

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The next entry in the Harvest Moon series has been announced. Harvest Moon: Linking the New World hits the 3DS in February in Japan, priced at 5040 yen.

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Thanks to a recent patch, Dragon’s Crown now supports cross-platform multiplayer between the PS3 and PS Vita. At present this only affects Japan; a global update is likely but not confirmed at this time.

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Square Enix has announced that Drakengard 3 will be released in North America and Europe. Retailing at $49.99, the title launches sometime in 2014, though an exact date is not yet known.

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Tales of Hearts R, the Vita remake of Tales of Hearts, is now available on iOS, though currently in Japan only. For the game’s release week, the price has been set at 1800 yen; after October 15, it will climb to 3800 yen.

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Bravely Default: For the Sequel will introduce a new feature called “Bravely Second,” a means by which players can stop time and attack their enemies. This allows them to break the normal damage cap for a single attack, as players spend SP to land several attacks at once. Oddly enough, this SP is accumulated while the 3DS is in sleep mode, or players can buy an SP Drink through the e-Shop for a quick recharge.

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As the title may have suggested, Rune Factory 4 will hit European shelves in spring of 2014.

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Nintendo has set the European release of Bravely Default: Flying Fairy as December 6. The North American release will follow, with a window of the first quarter of 2014.

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Acttil, recently founded by former NIS America employees, will be co-developing its first RPG with Elemental Labs. Titled Reborn, the game will be a real-time sci-fi action RPG set in the year 2188, centering on a futuristic version of the famous swordsman Musashi Miyamoto.

Reborn uses the Unreal Engine, and Elemental will be launching a Kickstarter campaign to seek $150,000 for funding. The game is planned for a 2014 digital release on both PS3 and PS4.

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Making the announcement at the Tokyo Game Show, Capcom revealed that their upcoming RPG Deep Down will be free-to-play. A beta test is scheduled for February 22, coinciding with the launch of the PS4 in Japan.

Source: Gematsu