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Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 Plus has some new screenshots available, and we’ve posted the lot below. The game’s out February 26 in US and on March 1 in UK on Vita.

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The first Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 reviews have gone live, and it’s all panning out pretty much as expected.

Here’s the lot. The game’s out on October 2.

• VG – 9/10
• GameZone – 9/10
• PSM3 – 8.7/10
• SpazioGames – 8.5/10
• IGN – 8.4/10
• G4 – 4/5

Sony had a chat with Team Ninja producer and director Yosuke Hayashi and he was kind enough to give the US PS Blog a walkthough demo of Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2.

The video below the break not only features Hayashi discussing the game, but there is also new footage, and modes including Momiji gameplay, Team Missions co-op mode, and Chapter Challenge mode.

Game’s out September 29 for PS3.

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Tecmo just confirmed a Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 Special Edition for an October 2 release for £50.

It’s an HMV exclusive, and can be pre-ordered here.

The pack contains, according to the PR you’ll find after the break:

• A copy of the game.
• Limited Edition 80 page ‘Ninja Gaiden Treasury’ featuring:
  - Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 prologue comic written and designed by Team Ninzja, “which sheds more light on the intriguing storylines of Ninja Gaiden.”
  - Character and concept art gallery.
  - “Lite-strategy guide”.
  - Commentary from producer Yosuke Hayashi.
• Soundtrack CD.
• Exclusive downloadable costume available through PSN.

Get a shot of the packaging, as well as a bunch of new co-op screens, after the drop.

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Team Ninja’s Yosuke Hayashi has said in an interview that Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 is running off of a hybrid engine developed for Ninja Gaiden 2 as well as one created for the original Sigma on PS3.

Reasoning? It’s apparently more difficult to port from Xbox 360 onto PS3, he said, thus the creation of the engine.

“In terms of having to have to basically split the memory going from Xbox 360 to PS3, [this] to us was a rather easier thing to do because it wasn’t like taking that one bucket full of memory and then having to have to figure out how to split it so that it goes appropriately into each slot that PS3 is basically providing us,” he told Gamasutra.

“We kind of had a way, or formula, that was already almost figured out by the time we knew that we we’re going to move on to PS3, and it was an easier method for us, because we had both the engines that we had worked on for the previous Sigma as well as Ninja Gaiden 2.

As a result, Hayashi says that a multiplatform engine that covers both the Xbox 360 and PS3 is now available to Team Ninja for future titles.

“It’s not just a port of 2 to PS3. It’s not just something that we’re taking and cutting and pasting,” he added. “We’re trying to incorporate all these different elements that we’ve created so far in the series and put it all into one package.”

More through the link.

CVG has some very colourful exclusive screenshots of TecmoKoei’s Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 that feature the first look at co-op play.

Not very much is known about the co-op (exclusive to the PS3′s Sigma) side of things, but hopefully we’ll know more soon.

Check them out.

Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 will have online co-op, according to Famitsu.

Team Mission is what it’s called, and you can play through with a real live partner or a CPU controlled ally.

Each mission can be finished in one sitting, and most end with an epic boss battle.

It’s out October 1 in Japan.

Thanks, 1UP.

Eurogamer France has three Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 gameplay videos posted for your viewing pleasure.

Each one stars either Ryu, Ayane or Momji.

Game’s out in the fall with a demo expected to land on PSN in September.

Hit the respective links for each one.

Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 for PS3 will have less blood and gore than the Xbox 360 version, according to Koei Tecmo.

It’s still rated M, but blood spills don’t linger as long, and beheadings emit a blue glow to conceal most of the stuff pumping out of the hole in the neck.

“Each game has its own concept and with Ninja Gaiden 2, the focus was on extreme violence,” Yosuke Hayashi told GamesRadar. “But with Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2, we really questioned whether violence is a necessity for a game, so we decided to move away from that trend. So the violence ‘approach’ is not the way we approached the development of Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2.

“Being able to unlock higher levels of gore would be out of kilter with the concept of the game.”

Apples and oranges, ya know.

Thanks, VideogamesBlogger.

Tecmo’s dated Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 in Japan. The game will release on October 1, priced ¥7,800.

The PS3 upgrade includes online co-op, and the like. There’s no specific date for the West as yet other than “autumn”.

More from Kotaku.

Ninja Gaiden Sigma II will be released on PS3 this fall with a demo expected to hit  PSN in September.

That was the news yesterday during the Koei Tecmo event in London.

Today, there’s pictures. Lovely and large pictures at that.

Kotaku has ‘em, so go have a look.

Rachel returns in Tecmo’s Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 donning extremely tight, top-light leather and wielding a hammer a little bit smaller than a house.

It’s raining, there are are rabbid man-wolves, Rachel’s sexy.

Now watch it.

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Team Ninja wants Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 to be “sleek and sexy,” and not as violent as others in the series.

Producer and director Yosuke Hayashi has told CVG that the team working on the PS3 version is “kind of egoistic” and gets “bored with the same continuous concept”: that’s why it’s shying away from a direct Xbox 360 port.

Hayash doesn’t want it to be namby pamby, but he does want to “start evolving this game.”

More through the link. It’s out later this year.

Tecmo showed off Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 at GDC last night, promising the game will be the full stop as far the Ninja Gaiden IP’s concerned.

“We really want this to be the total package, the ultimate package, the game you remember as having everything you’ve seen and experienced throughout the Ninja Gaiden franchise,” producer Yosuke Hayashi said at the game’s reveal.

Locations in the game include Venice, the Amazon, Tokyo and New York, and you’ll get to fight on the Statue of Liberty.

As was previously know, Hayashi confirmed that Dead or Alive’s Ayanne will b playable in the PS3 title, and that online co-op will be included.

It’s out in the US and Japan this autumn. More on Eurogamer.

Gamespot’s posted up first impressions and trailer from Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2. Watch the video after the break.

The game’s now confirmed as featuring Dead or Alive’s Ayanne as a playable character, and will support online co-op.

The PS3 exclusive’s being shown this week for the first time at GDC. It’ll be out in America and Japan later this year, with a European date unannounced as yet.

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Famitu’s posted up the first proper shots of Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2. Get them here. Looks sehr purdy, as you’d expect.

The PS3 game’s going to be shown for the first time in San Francisco next week.

Tecmo’s said it’ll be out in the US and Japan this year, but Europeans will have to wait for an unspecified date.

Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 will hit both Japan and the US this autumn, with a European release to follow later, according to this Joystiq report.

And yes, this is the Tecmo game the publisher’s going to unveil next week at the Metreon in San Francisco.

The PS3 action game was announced in Famitsu this week.

Update – It’s true.

According to this image, purportedly taken from the latest Famitsu, Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 is on the way to PS3.

If true, this is almost certainly the Tecmo game set to be announced in San Francisco next week.

There’s bound to be more on this throughout the day, so keep your peepers peeled, ninja fans.