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Disgaea D2 has received another batch of gameplay screens from Nippon Ichi. The images show of more colourful battles, painful-looking training exercises, zombie punching, a live rock concert and more.

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Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories will be released through PSN as a PS2 Classic later this month, NIS America has announced. Released originally on PS2 back in 2006, the turn-based strategy-RPG will run you $9.99 when it releases on January 22. Thanks, Gematsu.

The God and Fate Revolution Paradox has – besides from having an ace name – been delayed in Japan. Meanwhile Nippon Ichi’s anime-tastic RPG has yet to receive a western PS3 release date.

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Nippon Ichi is gearing up for its 20th anniversary celebrations, and will be launching several games to tie in with the festivities. One of them is hoped to be The Witch and Hundred Soldiers, a project that was due to release on PS3 in June. It silently disappeared off the map, but the publisher has spoken out about the delay.

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This year marks Nippon Ichi’s 20th anniversary, and the firm is teasing an untitled game with a piece of Noizi Ito artwork which was the cover of Dengeki PlayStation. More titles are in the works as well. It also revealed the anniversary logo which will adorn all of the anniversary celebrations planned for the rest of the year. The art and the logo are posted below, courtesy of Andriasang.

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NIS America will bring The Witch and the Hundred Knights westward exclusively on PS3 in early 2013.

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The day is almost over, and the weekend is nipping at our heels like the Fool’s little dog. Hopefully you got a few jokes and pranks in today, if not, there’s always next year.

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The series formerly known as Holy Invasion of Privacy, Badman! (later retitled as What Did I Do To Deserve This, My Lord? and No Heroes Allowed!) may well be on its way to NGP, if we can believe a tweet from, uh, one of the game’s primary characters.

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Over at IGN. Nippon Ichi’s RPG looks ok, we think, although not as many pixels and polygons that we’ve come to expect from current gen titles.

We suppose we’ll have to wait until 2009 to find out how it really looks.

By Mike Bowden

Square Enix has announced that the PS3 exclusive, Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice will be released in PAL territories in 2009.

From the release:

Welcome to the twisted world of the Nether Institute, Evil Academy where good is bad and bad is good. In this school a good student is somebody that excels in delinquent activities such as skipping classes or not doing their homework, whereas a bad student arrives to school early and does their homework on time.

This is the setting for Disgaea 3, a rich and deep Strategic RPG that’s not afraid to display a very bizarre sense of humour. It’s a winning combination that will leave you laughing one minute and fighting cunning enemies the next. Where special attacks can deliver up to 100 million points worth of damage and the power of the PS3 is used to deliver 2D sprites, albeit lots of them!

Full thing after the drop.

By Mike Bowden

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After the break. It’s amazing. Characters in the Japanese SRPG shout things like, “This is love! And justice!” The graphics looks the same as Afternoon of Darkness, we swear. We so want it. Watch: it’s in English. Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice is out on August 26 in the US.

Thanks, PS3F.

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Prinnies, dood. The DS version of Nippon Ichi’s SRPG Disgaea can be seen in motion on GamersHell, adding stylus play, a grid map on the top screen and multiplayer to the PSP outing, Afternoon of Darkness.

Take a look.

IGN’s just posted a ton of new stuff on Nippon Ichi PS3 SRPG Disgaea 3, including new shots, a translated interview and a trailer you can see after the break.

The interview begins with this gem of a quote from lead designer Masahiro Yamamoto, so you know all’s well: “I planned to make the story of Disgaea 3 as stupid as Disgaea 1 was, since Disgaea 2 was comparatively serious.”

The game’s coming out next year in the US, but still hasn’t been confirmed for Europe.

See for yourself.

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According to this Siliconera piece, Nippon Ichi’s releasing a Japanese update for Disgaea 3 which includes ten super-powerful playable characters. You get them to join your group by having Mao at a certain level when you beat the game. You can see the available characters – or nine of them, at least – here. The tactical RPG is promised for western release for PS3 later this year.

Here The DS version of Nippon Ichi’s SRPG’s looking all good and now confirmed for a June 26 release in Japan. No word yet on whether or not we’re going to see it in Europe, but computer says “yes”, so hopefully we’ll have a date soon.

Following last night’s announcement that Nippon Ichi’s mega-hardcore RPG Disgaea 3 will release in the US for PS3, Koei UK – publisher of all Nippon Ichi titles in Europe – has confirmed there are no plans to bring the title out here as yet.

“There’s currently nothing,” said a spokesperson. “I don’t even know if we’ll publish it or not. It’s just been announced for the US at the moment. No, absolutely no idea at the moment, no.”

In case you didn’t get that, it means “no”.

Don’t be too amazed if this does turn up eventually, however. Koei has published plenty of Nippon Ichi’s RPGs in Europe previously, including Phantom Brave, Disgaea: Afternoon of Darkness for PSP and Atelier Iris: Eternal Mana.