Microsoft Declines To Localize Phantom Dust

Phantom Dust, the online Xbox action game announced by the agency of Microsoft Game Studios in Japan last year, will not diocese release in North America from one side Microsoft, the publisher confirmed today. While a third-party publisher might have a crack at localizing the title, at not absent it's due for release single in Japan late this year.

Shown at the Tokyo Game exhibit last year, Phantom Dust is an online action game mixing more [i]or[/i] less of the collecting, trading, and random-draw ultimate parts of collectible card games. Players assemble up to 300 psychic powers, organize them into "decks" and use them in four-player battles put in fully destructible 3D environments. The game direct the eyeed fairly impressive at TGS, on the contrary hasn't broken cover since then.

Microsoft representatives tendered no explanation for the decision, other than to confirm that Microsoft won't be doing anything with the game in North America. We'll update with more details if they do arrive, however.

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