SEGA is also pleased to announce that a demo for Valkyria Chronicles, featuring 2 playable levels, will be live on PSN from October 9th.
Although it isn't out in the states yet, Japan is already receiving DLC that allows you to play as the bad guys.
Sega has just recently announced a new video of Valkyria Chronicles as well as (the more exciting news) a playable demo coming to Qore on October 9th. This is fantastic news for those of us who are anticipating the game and just aren't patient enough for the full release. Hopefully this gives this gets more people excited for the game who perhaps would not have thought to try it without a demo.
PSBlog Writes: "Jeff invited me to do a little guest blog post to let you know about the upcoming Valkyria Chronicles pre-release event later this week. The game is looking great (see the trailer below so you know what I'm talking about), and I'm really excited about this event because it's such a special treat."
Sega Blog: Valkyria Chronicles enthusiasts and fans - and people who like free stuff - listen up! Next Friday, SEGA will be holding an exclusive Valkyria Chronicles event at the Sony Playstation store inside the Metreon in San Francisco! Here's the scoop:
Sega sent over a friendly reminder that Valkyria Chronicles has an official release date. We'll get a chance to pick up in English on November 11. Spencer of Siliconera spoke with Christopher Kaminski, Associate Producer of Valkyria Chronicles, to find out if the downloadble content recently released in Japan would find its way to North America. He replied with, "No comment yet." Kaminski confirmed the content will not be on the retail disc though when he answered Spencer's follow up question with, "No, that content won't be on the disc." Valkyria Chronicles won't have any localization differences either. "We translated it directly. We wanted to stay true to the original. As a matter of fact we keep the original Japanese in there."
Dale North writes:
VGchartz writes:
Destructoid writes: "Valkyria's story focuses on Welkin, a soldier in the Federation's 7th infantry platoon that is working to keep the small country of Gallia safe from an invading Empire. There will be over 100 customizable characters that can join Welkin's force, and, thanks to the BLiTZ tactical battle system, you can control their real-time actions in addition to issuing standard tactical commands.
Sega have release a fact sheet & some screens for single player FPS Valkyria Chronicles which ships Fall 2008.
French website Gamekult writes:
PS3 Fanboy writes: Sega has a pretty big list of games in production. Their espionage title, Alpha Protocol, was recently slapped with a February 2009 release date. That means it's going up against Killzone 2. Their other high-profile title, Valkyria Chronicles, got a release date of November 2008.
Two of the sky pirates from the Dreamcast Classic game Skies of Arcadia are making an appearance as playable characters in Sega's new PS3 epic.
According to Impress Watch, Valkyria offer players the option for a hard disk install. The install takes up 3,336 MB and apparently cuts down load times from the 15 second waits players would otherwise have to sit through when opting to play directly from disc.
According to a Japanese developer blog the game Valkyria Chronicles was originally planned as an Xbox 360 exclusive game. When the game was announced however, development had already switched to the Playstation 3 platform. According to publisher SEGA the game has been in development for over three years, and had switched platform early on in development. The exact reason why the developer switched to Playstation 3 was not mentioned.
Valkyria Chronicles is set to release exclusively on the PS3 in Japan in late April, and the folks at SEGA of America and SEGA Europe are expecting such a positive response, they've slated to have it hit stateside and across the pond sometime this autumn.
SEGA is currently targeting 28th March for the release of Condemned 2: Bloodshot on PS3 and 360, and has also updated dates for Samba de Amigo on Wii and others.