Tales Union has an image of the boxart for the European version of Tales of Vesperia for the Xbox 360, as well as some more information about the game's release date.
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Apr 15, 2009

Shoko Nakagawa Thinking Of Buying A PS3, Otakudom To Follow Suit

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Shoko Nakagawa (pictured, with cats) is a big star in Japan. She's a TV personality, a singer and a nerd. She's a very pretty nerd, but still, a nerd. The queen of the otakus!

In Japan, the Xbox platform has traditionally been the one of choice for many otaku. As Dead or Alive creator Tomonobu Itagaki pointed out, nobody in Japan buys an Xbox on accident.

Not that she needs to earn any more geek cred, but last month she bought an Xbox 360 to play Tales of Vesperia on. She wasn't alone! Lots of Japanese people bought an Xbox 360 for that game.
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Apr 14, 2009

PS3 Exclusive Vesperia Character Likely Removed from 360 Version

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It seems that there was more than just a text reference in the game to Patty Fleur, the new female character in the PlayStation 3 version of Tales of Vesperia.
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Apr 7, 2009

What's New About PS3 Tales of Vesperia?

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Kotaku: Yes, we know there's a pirate girl named Patty Fruel. But there's got to be more to separate the upcoming PS3 version with the Xbox 360 one released last year. Well, there is.
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Apr 6, 2009

Tales Of Vesperia Anime Announced

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Not only is Tales of Vesperia getting a PS3 version, the role-playing-game is also getting a big screen version.

Namco Bandai announced today that Tales of Vesperia will also be getting an anime called Tales of Vesperia ?The First Strike ?. It will hit Japanese theaters sometime later this year.

This isn't a first for the series as previously, Namco has released animated versions of its Tales of franchise.
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Apr 3, 2009

PS3 Exclusive Tales of Vesperia Character Referenced In Xbox 360 Version

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Kotaku writes: "The PS3 version of Tales of Vesperia feature is getting a new, exclusive character: young pirate girl Patty Fruel. But perhaps, this isn't the first time we've heard of her.

She was apparently referenced in the Xbox 360 version. Pictured is a screen shot of the Xbox 360 version."
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Mar 26, 2009

European Tales of Vesperia Might Have Dual Audio

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A news post on Xbox 360 Spain has sparked a rumor that Tales of Vesperia's European release will have dual-audio (Japanese/English), along with sub-titles in Spanish (which signifies each language will get their own translations of the script).

Tales Union looks into how this might affect the North American version, which had the Japanese vocals in the anime cutscenes, but was unreachable outside of viewing the extracting scenes on a computer.
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Mar 25, 2009

Tales of Vesperia Coming to EU/PAL Regions

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GamersDigest writes;

"NAMCO BANDAI Games Europe today announced that acclaimed role-playing title Tales of Vesperia is heading to Europe and PAL regions in June 2009 for the Xbox 360."
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Feb 9, 2009

Tales of Vesperia movie to come

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In this month's special issue of the Kinema Junpo magazine, there will be an announcement that Namco's Xbox 360 exclusive RPG, Tales of Vesperia will be adapted by Kadokawa pictures into a theatrical movie.
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