Microsoft Game Studios has announced that its Japanese division’s most important project to-date, Phantom Dust, will not be released in North America. It’s a strange decision, as Phantom Dust will be ready for release in Japan before Christmas, and it’s not the sort of title that would need to fester in the hands of translation and localisation teams before an English-appropriated version could be presented. It’s a fairly standard ‘action blaster’ set in a dark near-future world, i.e., exactly the type of game that would sell well to an American audience.
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