Tag: Nippon Ichi
News Rhapsody: Marl Kingdom Chronicles Brings Light-Hearted JRPG Adventure to PS5 in 2023
Fall in love with adventure
Nippon Ichi Software is celebrating its 30th anniversary with updates on two upcoming games. We learned more about Disgaea 7, in addition to Rhapsody: Marl Kingdom Chronicles, a long-running series in Japan that is celebrating its own 25th anniversary. You can see a trailer for the latter above, which launches on PS5 in...
News PSP Remake Disgaea: Afternoon of Darkness Levelling Up PS Plus Premium in Japan
Grind it out
While not everyone is thrilled with the list of All PS Plus Games available as part of the classics selection with PS Plus Premium just yet, we do get the impression that the selection will be expanding quite a lot in the coming months. Indeed, another PSP game has been spotted on Sony’s servers in Japan, and this time it’s Disgaea:...
News Rob from the Rich and Give to the Poor in Kamiwaza: Way of the Thief, Coming to PS4 in October
Serious Tenchu vibes.
Kamiwaza: Way of the Thief is a stealth action game coming to PS4 on 11 October in North America, and Europe on 14 October. It gives us some serious Tenchu nostalgia, perhaps partly because Kamiwaza is a remaster of a 2006 PS1 game that is only now making its way to the West. You play as a reformed thief who must once again...
News PS4 and Nintendo Switch Need to Find a Balance in Japan
That's according to Nippon Ichi boss Sohei Shinkawa
Nippon Ichi Software is perhaps best known for its PlayStation games, but it announced a couple of Nintendo Switch launch titles last week. Speaking with Famitsu magazine, the company's gaffer Sohei Shinkawa explained the motivation behind the move, explaining that he feels the PlayStation 4 and...
News Disgaea 5 Brings Massive Damage to PS4 in New Trailer
Sage it ain't so
Nippon Ichi's uber-niche strategy role-playing series will be making the jump to the PlayStation 4 next year in Disgaea 5, and the Japanese outfit has released a new trailer to reveal what it has in store. In addition to the usual mix of massive damage and tactical planning, the title will introduce a couple of new classes and...
News Disgaea 5 Takes a Tense Tactical Turn Exclusively on Western PS4s in 2015
Grid-based grief
Tactical Japanese RPG Disgaea 5 – which, confusingly, is actually the sixth game in the franchise – was announced at Sony's pre-Tokyo Game Show conference earlier in the year. However, as it was a Japanese event, only an Eastern release date was announced, leaving the usual black cloud over the possibility of a Western launch...
News Disgaea 5 Brings Tense and Tough Tactics to Japanese PS4s in 2015
Wait your turn
If you feel like the PlayStation 4 is a bit lacking when it comes to tactical RPGs, never fear, as the always solid Disgaea franchise will soon be hitting Sony's super system. Officially announced during the platform holder's pre-TGS conference, there is very little known about the new title, except that it exists. However, we did...
Matters of Import Shining a Light on PS Vita's htoL#NiQ -Hotaru no Nikki-
Yes, that really is the title
Nippon Ichi, perhaps best known for its Disgaea role-playing game series, has recently released a new PlayStation Vita game in Japan that’s very different from its usual output. htoL#NiQ is a puzzle game, and is best – or perhaps most lazily – described as Japan's answer to monochrome indie die-lots-‘em-up...
Weirdness Criminal Girls Invitation Scores Strangely Saucy Trailer
Not safe for work
Who needs Monster Hunter-esque titles when you can have Criminal Girls Invitation instead? The enhanced PlayStation Vita port of Imagepoch's popular PlayStation Portable hit sees you guiding a group of scantily clad prison birds through a tower in order to be reincarcerated. Unsurprisingly, the illicit ladies are not always keen on...
News Disgaea 4: Return Makes a Promise with PS Vita Next Year
Criminal Girls inviting your attention, too
Fans of exceptionally long adventures will get their money’s worth next year, as Nippon Ichi has announced that Disgaea 4: Return is in active production for the PlayStation Vita. The port of the PlayStation 3 favourite Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten was announced during an anniversary event in...
News Nippon Ichi Announces Trio of PS3 Exclusives
Get your niche on
Disgaea developer Nippon Ichi has announced a trio of new PlayStation 3 exclusive JRPGs for release in North America and Europe. The first of the batch is internally developed action RPG The Witch and the Hundred Knights, which is due out in early 2013. Very little is known about the game itself, but it will feature full 3D...
News Nippon Ichi Planning Another PlayStation Vita Title For Next Year
Nippon Ichi was one of the first developers to jump on board Sony's new handheld platform, preparing Disgaea 3 Return in time for the PlayStation Vita's Japanese launch earlier in the month
Now the publisher has announced plans to release another title on the handheld platform as early as next year. Speaking during a Q&A session at the Akihbara...
News Disgaea 3 Returns to PlayStation Vita
You can really be the hero
Nippon Ichi's acclaimed RPG series Disgaea has been a PlayStation staple for years, and that's set to continue as the company has announced it's bringing Disgaea 3 Return to the portable. The game will be an improved conversion of the PS3 original, and even includes all the downloadable content preloaded on the game card...
News Disgaea 3 Return Gets Bonkers PlayStation Vita Trailer
As was announced earlier in the week, Disgaea 3 Return is coming to the PlayStation Vita
The updated version of the PlayStation 3 title is set to get new characters, all of the DLC from the original version of the game, as well as new sequences, items and more. The game will also get trophies — which is a bizarre thing to say about a portable...
News Nippon Ichi Confirms Disgaea 3 For PlayStation Vita
A report in Dengeki PlayStation magazine [translated by Andriasang] has confirmed Disgaea 3 for Sony's new handheld system, the PlayStation Vita
In news that will surely delight fans of the series, Nippon Ichi has revealed that Disgaea 3 Return (or Returns) is in development for the super-powerful new handheld system. The game — which first...
Rumour Disgaea 3 Coming To PlayStation Vita
A release schedule for NIS uncovered on Yahoo
Japan has revealed that Disgaea 3 is being secretly prepared for the PlayStation Vita's launch. The schedule has since been pulled from the website, but other sites caught the news in time. Disgaea 3 originally launched on PS3 in 2009. Expect some additional content to be added to the Vita re-release.
News Nippon Ichi Confirms NGP Rumours, New Title Due This Year
Nippon Ichi has confirmed rumours that it is working on a new title for Sony's NGP platform, confirming that the game is due some time this year
Destructoid reports that the developer's vice president, Johanna Hirota, announced the in-development title at an event in San Francisco this week. While Hirota wouldn't specify details, rumours suggest...
Rumour Holy Invasion Of Privacy, Badman! NGP Title On The Horizon
Sony's announced nothing in regards to the NGP's third-party line-up, so it's pretty cool picking out these little tid-bits from the developers themselves
The latest little snippet comes via the Holy Invasion Of Privacy, Badman! team, who used the Twitter account of one of the game's main characters (don't ask!) to tease an NGP spin-off. We've never...
News TGS 10: Disgaea 4 Hits Japanese PlayStation 3s On February 24th
Nippon Ichi's dated Disgaea 4 for the PlayStation 3 during TGS
The latest entry in the long-running JRPG franchise will hit Japanese PlayStation 3s on February 24th. A US release is expected to follow, but no details have been provided as of yet. The game will apparently boast a political theme, and will feature network content allowing players to...
News Nippon Ichi To Focus On Playstation 3, New Disgaea Incoming
Japanese publisher Nippon Ichi may have lost $3
3million last year, but they're set to turn that around with a focus on the Playstation 3, and the prioritisation of internal projects. Disgaea is clearly the company's biggest franchise, and so they aim to build on that by releasing a new version of the game for Playstation 3. It's part of a new...
News Prinny's Coming Back To The Playstation Portable
The penguin-men known as Prinny are heading back to the PSP, y'all
We can't tell you the full title for the new game yet because, well, developers Nippon Ichi are only telling us part of it: Prinny 2: Dawn's ? ? ? Epic Battle. The "? ? ?" obviously representing the impaired part. Still, that means we can hold a mini competition. What do...
News Trinity Of RPG Developers Announce New PS3 RPG Called Trinity Universe
Those of you in the RPG loop will know a little about Nippon Ichi, Gust and Idea Factory
They are in fact a trio of excellent RPG developers. Thus, what better way for them to unite than to create an RPG called Trinity Universe - as has been announced today. The game is a 3D dungeon crawler RPG and features two plot lines: Goddess and Devil King...
