Tales of Legendia dated for Japan

TOKYO--Namco announced today that it will release the newest iteration of its Tales series, Tales of Legendia, in Japan on August 25. The game will retail for 7,140 yen ($67). Tales of Legendia is being developed internally by a team of Namco staffers, some of whom worked on Soul Calibur. This latest title in the long-running Tales franchise will be a role-playing game with action elements. The game's characters are designed by Kazuto Nakazawa, known in America for his work on the animated sequences of Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill: Volume 1. The game will reach the US in the winter of 2006.