Japanese online store Brain Police are taking pre-orders for a series of nail files inspired by the Tales of series.

While Tales of Xillia is still slated for release this Summer, Namco Bandai are putting Tales of Graces f onto the PlayStation Network first.

“I also wanted to portray through Asbel’s storyline is when you were little you don’t care about a path or what people think about you. After you grow up you have to always think about social guidelines and expectations.”

“The most important thing is the Tales series is part of the JRPG genre so I want to create characters players can emphasize with and they will want to follow as the story continues.”

The Good Smile Company are releasing a new series of Nendoroids based on the Tales series of RPGs.

“It’s actually the ‘style shift linear motion’ battle system from Tales of Graces f that’s being released overseas this year.” Baba describes it as “exhilarating” and “enjoyable no matter how many times you play.”

Namco Bandai are putting a Tales booklet together in Europe, which will be included with Neo Magazine, and they want your submissions.

This edition will come in a special box which contains the game, DLC for Tales of Destiny 2 costumes, an artbook and more..

Tales series producer, Hideo Baba, is back with another community interview where he fields questions from western Tales fans.

“For now, we are looking at making better Tales of games with existing hardware. Of course, when the new generation of consoles appears, we will develop for those as well.”

“If we worried too much about what foreign players might think when we were developing them, we wouldn’t be able to take full advantage of our strengths,” Baba believes.

Heads up – the Tales contest will run until April 5th so if you haven’t made a greeting card yet there’s still time to make one!

At long last, Tales of Graces F is being released in North America.

Tales has a vocal fanbase, but as a RPG series it isn’t as well known as other brands. Since Tales of Graces f is a two player game, I decided to play the English version with someone who has never played a Tales game before.

Finally, we have a look at the English version of Tales of Graces f. A few screenshots of the localized version were released by Namco Bandai.

In Japan, Namco Bandai offered Tales of Destiny costumes for Asbel, Sophie, and Richard as a pre-order bonus for Tales of Graces f.