The holiday effect is very evident in this week’s top-20 chart, which depicts a number of popular games seeing a boost in sales.

Tale of the Last Promise and El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron make their debut in Japan.

Imageepoch president, Ryoei Mikage, explains that this does not represent the scale of the game in any way.

Check out the anime intro to Imageepoch’s upcoming PSP dungeon crawler.

If Wolf, the lead character, falls during battle the game abruptly ends with a game over screen. The trick to battles is controlling “hate” an unseen statistic similar to aggro in MMORPGs.

Imageepoch know exactly how they want to promote their first self-published game — with sultry phone cards.

Imageepoch are releasing a digital version of Tale of the Last Promise on PlayStation Network, with 500 yen from each purchase going toward earthquake relief in Japan.

In Tale of the Last Promise, certain attacks draw the enemy’s attention toward the character that performed them.

A new promo video for Tale of the Last Promise gives you a look at the game’s characters.

Imageepoch president, Ryoei Mikage, believes that their upcoming PSP RPG can sell over a 100,000 units…maybe even 150,000.

Imageepoch is cross promoting their two PSP games. Early copies of Tale of the Last Promise, Imageepoch’s first PSP game, also include a Book of Secret.

Imageepoch president, Ryoei Mikage, is losing even more sleep now.

Cain is also part of the Messiah Knights. Just a year ago he was a rookie graduate from a military academy.

While asking fans to name NPCs, Imageepoch also outlined some of the characters Wolf will run into in Tale of the Last Promise.