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November Vita lineup and upcoming titles

by blacklagoon

We're almost through 2013, and I'm here again with a rundown of upcoming and recently announced games for the PlayStation Vita. As usual, it is focused on the North American market, with Europe and Japan exclusive titles in their own sections below.

This will be a solid month release-wise, starting with last months surprise announcements of Injustice: Gods Among Us Ultimate Edition and a port of last years open world move tie-in The Amazing Spider-Man. But the real star is papercraft platforming adventure Tearaway, Media Molecule first new IP since LittleBigPlanet. We've also got another tentative XSEED release - fast paced action RPG Ys: Memories of Celceta, but the release date hasn't been completely finalized yet and it may slip to December.

Tearaway in action

The steady flow of PSN games continues as well, starting off with Zen's side-scrolling action tower defense CastleStorm making it's appearance on the platform, as well as Bloober Team launching a sequel to their Vita launch title with A-Men 2. Later in the month, Sony provides ports of thatgamecompany's classic Flow and Flower, while Beatshapers brings over Housemarque's mobile puzzler Furmins.

For new title announcements, we've previously covered Injustice, Spider-Man, CastleStorm and Flow, since they're already coming out. That leaves Telltale's new adventure game The Wolf Among Us, Inafune's Mega-Man inspired Mighty No. 9, both of which are going portable on the Vita. Else, Futurlab revealed they're making an enhanced native Vita version of the PlayStation Mobile puzzle game Surge named Surge Deluxe. And NIS America surprised many by picking up Hyperdimension Neptunia PP for western release. It being an idol management sim a la Idolmaster it seemed unlikely to leave Japan, but I guess a Nep Nep can sell anything.

Meanwhile in Japan, Experience revealed new dungeon crawler RPG - a sequel to Labyrinth Cross Blood called Tokyo Shin Seiroku: Operation Abyss, while Namco Bandai has fake MMO fans covered with Sword Art Online: Hollow Fragment. Also light novel/anime series Golden Time gets a game adaptation from Kadokawa, and dating sim Amagami gets a port.

And that's it for this month. Come back next month, when Aksys releases its curry flavored mystery dungeon roguelike Sorcery Saga: Curse of the Great Curry God.

October

Retail

Downloads (Tentative)

  • CastleStorm - Sidescrolling action tower defense game
  • A-Men 2 - Sequel to the launch multi-character puzzle game
  • Flower - Port of the PS3 exclusive

December?

Retail

Downloads

Next year?

Retail releases

Downloads

Unconfirmed/Vaporware

  • Zero Escape 3 - Development has started, but patforms have yet to be annouced
  • Sly Cooper HD Collection - ESRB rating
  • Yakuza game
  • Still Time - Minimalist indie puzzle platformer
  • New Ys game

Europe

(Titles out in Europe with no American release announced.)

Japan

(Incomplete list of Japanese titles that have yet to be announced for western release)

Upcoming

Retail (released)

Download (released)