Atari and Namco Bandai Games announced today that European PlayStation 3 owners will see the release of JRPG Eternal Sonata in stores on February 2009, complete with new gameplay quests, a revitalised story, brand new costumes and additional playable characters.

With its vibrant visuals, innovative combat system and captivating storyline, Eternal Sonata has already won the hearts of western fans of Japanese role-playing games following its release for Xbox 360 in October 2007.

Sega announced this morning that the release date of Valkyria Chronicles, an exclusive RPG for the PlayStation 3, has been brought forward to 31st October.

We've prepared another competition for Strategy Informer members! Codemasters were kind enough to provide some cool prizes to pack it with. The prizes that we have are: Xbox 360 Faceplate, Statue, Keychain and a T-Shirt. They're all themed with the upcoming multi-platform RPG game, Rise of the Argonauts.

SEGA announced today that a demo for Valkyria Chronicles, featuring 2 playable levels, will be live on PlayStation Network from October 9th. Players will be able to experience for themselves a taste of the incredible CANVAS graphical engine and the exciting action strategy that Valkyria Chronicles offers before the game launches on the 14th of November.

The Last Remnant image gallery has been updated with 69 new screenshots.

The Japanese style RPG developer Level-5 has just unveiled a new countdown web page for an upcoming announcement scheduled for September 28th. The developer is known for their work on several PlayStation 2 titles like Dark Cloud 1 and 2 and Rouge Galaxy. According to Gamekyo, Level-5 recently published an advertisement in a Japanese magazine stating that "A game revolution is beginning" and that readers should "Wait for a shocking announcement from Level-5".

More on this announcement when we have it.

Kotaku revealed that the PS3 exclusive White Knight Chronicles will be released in Japan on December 25, 2008. No information on a European or North American release date has been revealed, so we decided to contact Sony Computer Entertainment Europe to see if we could get an update on a European release.

Ok it's time for a new competition! We've managed to get approval for 5 free games from GamersGate for this competition. Hence, the winner of this competition will get to pick any game from GamersGate of his/her choice. They got a lot of great up to date games over there so be sure to check them out.

KOEI announced today that Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 2 will be released in Europe for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in 2009.

"KOEI’s next gen assault was spearheaded by DYNASTY WARRIORS: GUNDAM in 2007 to tremendous effect with it proving to be a huge hit across the globe. With every feature within the game ramped up to the max DYNASTY WARRIORS: GUNDAM 2 will be bigger, better and more spectacular in every way." Said Will Curley, Sales Manager for KOEI.

To celebrate the launch of the game on PC DVD-ROM our friends at SEGA have given us 5 e-GeForce 9600 GT 512MB graphics cards to give away. These high-spec graphics cards from EVGA feature NVIDIA® SLI™ technology, next-generation superscalar GPU architecture and full Microsoft® DirectX® 10 shader model 4.0 support.