One crucial change to Yuusha no Kuse ni Namaikida: 3D (aka Holy Invasion of Privacy Badman) is the abilities to upgrade your pickaxe, which will has some effects on your strategies to the tower defense style game. You can upgrade your tool using special orbs dropped by the heroes once you’ve kill them. And if you still have save data of previous games in your memory stick, you can unlock special pickaxe right before the game starts. Screens from the game after the jump, the release date is March 2010 in Japan.

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So this is what SCEJ has been teasing for in the last few days, 1 Million Ton’s Bara Bara (not sure about the title :) is another quirky looking title from Acquire (who did Holy Invasion of Privacy Badman: What Did I Do to Deserve This? with Rideon). The game requires players to “attack huge battleships and destroy it piece by piece” according to summary posted by the Japanese blogs. The visuals look fantastic, as shown in the countdown site.

One of the new games announced in this week’s Weekly Famitsu is Kentoushi Gladiator Begins, an ARPG inspired by the famous fighters in Roman period. The game is currently under development at Goshow, who also created the first game for PS2 back in 2005 (release in US as Colosseum: Road to Freedom), and will be published by Acquire this October in Japan.

This Famitsu report focus on the story, customization options and show us some of the battle system. The story appears to be set ten years before the first game. Player will need to create their own gladiator before the game starts with the much improved Character Making feature, and they can create a female fighter now. There will be an increase in attacking moves but only the face buttons are needed to activate them. Of course it won’t be a PSP game these days without the Ad-Hoc mode support and in Kentoushi, players can fight against each other and also exchange gladiators data they have created.

Kentoushi Gladiator Begins is currently 77% done and will be out in Japan on October 29th.

Japanese publisher Spike appears to be preparing Way of The Samurai 2 Portable for release this September in the country according to online retailer Rakuten. No other details are given but this should be like the port of the first game (screen above) in the series, which features new contents, enhancements and support for local multiplayer. Way of the Samurai 2 is a prequel to the first game of the popular adventure series, which put players in the shoes of a samurai in the more chaotic period of 19th century Japan and features multiple endings depending on player choices throughout the game.

Source: Rakuten

Acquire updated the official website for Ken to Mahou to Gakuen Mono 2 with this PV and more information on the characters. Unfortunately, no actual gameplay as the video spent more time showcasing Mr Uji’s character design skills and the anime version that will come with the special edition of the game. The game is coming out end of next month in Japan.

NIS America shows plenty of games at their “Holy Drunken Shenanigans, Badman!” press event. No new games for PSP but there are new trailers for Disgaea 2: Dark Hero Days and Holy Invasion Of Privacy, Badman! What Did I Do to Deserve This? (Yuusha no Kuse ni Namaikida in Japan). The former will be out this fall while the latter is set for July.

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