Those of you who are fans of namco's "tales of" rpg series will be pleased to know a new game has been announced called Tales of innocence which comes with a new battle system, fully 3d cel-shaded graphics, voice overs and packaged of with anime FMV.
two of the protagonists have been named, a boy named Luca who carries a huge broad sword and a girl called Iria who wields a gun.

first trailer here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8p6dtfoCDO8

pretty impressive graphics for a ds game huh. i'll bring more information on this as it comes.

That looks really cool. ;) I'm gonna' have to get that.

Think of all the Tales of goodness we are getting. and there will be more since namco announced their making the ds the new home for the Tales of series.

Do you know if there will be UK/US release yet?

Not yet. that may be something to worry about since tales of the tempest was suppossed to be released in the west but it hasn't happened yet. but if find anything out i'll post it here as quick as i can.