It's been a while since our last Burning Question back in September, hasn't it? The segment got delayed due to some unforseen scheduling issues on my end but we're restarting the segment this week with a pertinent question tied to news that broke earlier this week: Tales of the Abyss's North American and European release dates for the Nintendo 3DS.
For those who aren't already aware we exclusively broke the news this Monday that the European release was set for November 25, 2011 (a slight delay from the original November 10th release date announced earlier this year). And then a day later Namco Bandai's North America branch announced that they would release the game on February 14, 2011, falling on Valentine's Day.
Keep on reading to read this week's Burning Question.
Last week we got an amazing response to our initial Burning Question segment asking fans what game they started out the series with. This week we have another question and it involves the two newly announced Tales titles in Japan.
For those who haven't been keeping track lately, here's a quick rundown. The first game announced, Tales of Innocence R, is a re-imagining of the original and includes a revised game theme, a new battle system and a new gameplay system alongside a new opening movie.
The second game announced, Tales of the Heroes: Twin Brave, plays similarly to the Musou/Dynasty Warriors franchise with the player controlling one character with a partner character being controlled by the game's AI. Characters from the mothership titles (and surprisingly enough Tales of the Tempest) will be included.
So now that you are caught up, here's this week's question...
Keep on reading to see what this week's Burning Question is and respond!
American and European Tales of fans have had a great year so far with announcements of both Tales of the Abyss on the Nintendo 3DS and Tales of Graces f on the PS3 both being confirmed for release in both regions.
In that spirit, we're wanting to do the same and reach out to the fans of the series in a new segment which should look familiar to those of you who visit our sister sites Final Fantasy Union and Kingdom Hearts Union. To start things off we're wanting to ask you guys a question:
Keep on reading to find out what the question is and how you can answer it!
If you're viewing this website right now and have been a long-time follower of the website, you may have noticed that things look a little bit different. We had partially teased it over at Final Fantasy Union, but never told exactly what it was about --- so here's the rundown of what's changed.
Unlike the Version 2 update, which radically changed the layout, this layout keeps the general design of the previous layout but cleans things up, which should give the site a little more breathing room than before. All in all, those who were used to to the previous layout should feel at home in this new layout.
Last week, Yoshidumi-san, the Executive Producer of the Tales series, visited Namco Bandai's North American offices and signed a few copies of the limited edition version of Tales of Vesperia. That same post also hinted at a future contest. If you already saw the title, you may be wondering: "Why is this on Tales Union?"
In collaboration with Namco Bandai's Community Manager FilthieRich, the official Tales Series Facebook and Tales Union are working together to create a contest specifically made for you Tales fans which will test your skills in a uniquely Tales-ish way. There are six "tickets" in total, each one giving you a better chance of being the lucky fan who wins. And what are the prizes, you may ask?
Keep on reading to read about the prizes and how to enter.
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(Apologizes for the lateness in getting this week's news review up, had a number of outside circumstances --- this includes the two other stories that broke earlier today, which will be up soon.)
This week was quite an interesting week. We got our first look at Tales of Xillia, and there was also number of news stories revolving around Tales of Graces f and Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology 3.
The theorized "Xillia" trademark turned out to be the name of the next Tales title, and we first got a surprise with two of the notable character designers each doing a design for the game's two main characters.
We also got our first look at the game in action via an official trailer from Namco Bandai themselves.
Keep on reading to see more of last week's Tales recap.
This week was quite an interesting one, indeed. With Tales of Graces release two weeks ago, there wasn't much information about that game, but Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology 3 sure did get a lot of press. And with only a few days till the presumed Tales of Xillia's reveal, this upcoming week should be one busy one for sure.
Namco Bandai unveiled their plans for new DLC for Tales of Graces f, including finalized release dates and pricing. We also heard some encouraging news about the sales figures for the game, as it surpassed the initial sales of the Wii version by quite a sizable amount.
The new for Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology 3 came from every direction this week, it seems. We found out more info about the theme song, the boxart, new characters and even a PSN version of the game, a first for the series.
Been a while, hasn't it? The last Staff Blog update was back in September, so I thought it would be a good idea to give an update to what was happening around the Gaming Union Network at large. ;)
As stated before, most of my time lately outside of a very hectic university semester has been a secret project for Gaming Union. While we're still not able to unveil it just yet, things are progressing nicely and more "normal" updates to Tales Union should be resuming in late January/early February if everything goes as planned.
There's a number of small modifications that will be made driven by the changes on the previously mentioned project, but the main focus will be getting sections like Games up-to-date and fixing some of minor bugs that have appeared over time (including a new and improved tag and pagination system), as well as getting sections like the Gallery back online.
As you can see from special features like the articles and the This Week in Tales, we're planning on resuming the posting schedule from back during the Summer, albeit with the absence of the Cosplay of the Week feature for the time being until the secret project is finished.
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