The final pre-release report of Tales of VS. in the latest issue of Shonen Jump (click for full view) is the official announcement of a special website for players to download “SP Battle”. Players can also download special weapons from the site with a password and the first such weapon is a Cotton Candy, which apparently is the best jump weapon for the game (the password for this is JUMPSPBATTLEWJVJ). To connect, just click “Connection” on the Mode Select screen of the game and “Network Communication” on the next screen. Tales of VS. is out this Thursday in Japan.

There have been plenty of updates at Tales of VS. official website, five more character videos are added and you can also check out the Collection menu. The game is coming out early next month in Japan.

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A couple more characters for Tales of VS. will be revealed in the upcoming issue Shonen Jump (left). They are Tales of Phantasia’s Dhaos and Tales of Destiny 2’s Barbatos Goetia. With another Tales of Phantasia character Mint Adnade being shown on the cover of the special edition DVD at Amazon Japan (direct link here), we should have only one more slot before the roster (full list here) is complete, hope I’m not wrong again :)

Note: Mint info from the our always informative reader Yuan :) Thanks!

Update: As IAmRauizu and Ryo Valdurin (thanks!!) pointed out below, I missed out Tales of Innocence’s Iria :)

See how stylish Overlimits, available once your TP Gauge (the green bar) is full, are in Tales of VS. Another video that got added to the updated official website is one of the mini-games, called Tales of Wall Breaker, see it after the jump.

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Five new character videos being added to Tales of VS. official website.

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Kohak Hearts (Tales of Hearts), Farah Oersted (Tales of Eternia) and Caius Qualls (Tales of Tempest) are the latest characters checking into Tales of VS. based on a scan of the latest issue of Shonen Jump. If I haven’t missed out anything (terribly busy with works recently), the character count currently stands at 31 (full list here), with four more to be revealed before its August 6th release in Japan. Also check out the two new videos for Survival Battle and Single Battle after the cut.

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We have just past the halfway point of the year and Weekly Famitsu has a feature that offers a look at the big gaming news in the last six months. The feature also lists the five best selling game of each month and developers from the top sellers were asked to share the “secrets that can only be revealed now” of their titles. PSP have a couple of titles, Dissidia Final Fantasy and Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology 2 are the top titles for January and February respectively, check out their “secrets” below.

Dissidia Final Fantasy

Dissidia’s Tetsuya Nomura, who proved to be the most prolific producer with two titles winning the top spot for three months (Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days is the winner of May and June), shares the origin of the fighting game with characters from past Final Fantasy games. It was during the development of Kingdom Hearts, when he thought it would be interesting if fighting can take place in Traverse Town. The originally intended platform was PlayStation 2 using split screens. However, when the project was green lit, Nomura felt it will be better if players can fight against each other with just one screen and decided to move the game to PSP (the same point was brought up during an interview in May 2007).

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Only weeks away before its big release so Namco step up their video content upload on Tales of VS. official website.

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Check out videos of Tales of VS‘ story mode (officially called Yggdrasill Battle Mode) and also the frantic race for items on stage (video after the cut).

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Here’s your daily Tales of VS. video feeds :) Tales of Vesperia’s Judith (above) and Tales of Phantasia’s Arche (after the cut) are the new characters being added to the official website.

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