Eternal Sonata

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Russ writes, Demon's Souls… on clearance? Dr. Pepper and… Mass Effect 2? Strange days, man. Many discounted RPGs this week.

NextGen Player writes: After reading a post on Cheap Ass Gamer, it looks like there are some pretty good deals at HMV if you look deep enough. On their website there are a number of value priced games that certainly seem reasonable if you're in the market.

ATARI recently announced their overview of upcomming 2009 game releases including dates.

Namco Bandai's Eternal Sonata boasts gorgeous graphics, 3D character models, and a groundbreaking battle system. The PS3 edition of Eternal Sonata will include extra content, such as new events to help move along the story line, Crescendo and Serenade as playable characters, and the ability to freely change your characters' costumes. Featuring exclusive playable characters and quests, Eternal Sonata allows players to join Frederic Chopin during the final hours of his life as he travels to a realm of dreams in this award-winning adventure. Fans can catch a glimpse of this new version with the downloadable demo that is now available on the PlayStation[Registered]Network.

That Aussie Game Site have wrapped up the day in games reporting on Bungie's Kojima talent aquisition, new DLC for Star Wars: The Force Unleashed and a swag of demos coming to the PSN. They've also got information on the free DLC for Gears of War 2, information regarding the Resistance 2 Beta, Dead Space colour-coded suits and a bunch of new media for Tom Clancy's End War. What a day!

PlayFrance: This version of the Playstation 3 will offer exclusive content, with two new playable characters (Crescendo and Seranade), additional quests, new purpose and a system of customisation for costumes heroes.

Police are appealing for information following the theft of a rare and collectable games console from a house in Banbury. An address in Hearthway was burgled in the early hours of Friday, June 20. A number of items were stolen, including an X-box 360 with a limited edition design taken from the Japanese video game Eternal Sonata. The X-box is a rare collectors' item and is very distinctive. Other items were also taken including a Hewlett Packard laptop computer, a PlayStation Portable (PSP), a white Nintendo DS, a silver digital camera, a silver iPod and a Sony Ericsson mobile phone.

RPGFan writes: Bandai Namco Games announced that its Xbox 360 RPG Trusty Bell: Chopin no Yume (Eternal Sonata in the US) will be available for PlayStation 3 in Japan in mid-September. More than a year has passed since the game's release on the Xbox 360 in Japan, but the developers have apparently used this time to make significant changes to the game. As previously reported, two new playable characters, a new quest and the option to change a character's outfit had already been confirmed to be part of the PlayStation 3 release's feature set. Further improvements announced today include a new dungeon, a revised scenario with multiple endings as well as new songs by pianist Stanislav Bunin and composer Motoi Sakuraba.

Namco Bandai US has told videogaming247 that as far as it's aware, the PS3 version of tri-Crescendo's JRPG Eternal Sonata won't make it out of Japan. More through the link.