PSVita’s Samurai & Dragons

<p>According to Kotaku&comma; Sega released the first free-to-play MMO on the PlayStation Vita handheld device with its new title&comma; <em>Samurai &amp&semi; Dragons&comma; <&sol;em>on March 29&comma; 2012&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>About <em>Samurai &amp&semi; Dragons<&sol;em><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The game allows up to four players to group together over 3G and&sol;or Wi-Fi in order to battle their way through different dungeons&comma; fighting a range of mobs and eventually facing a dungeon-specific boss battle&period; But that&&num;8217&semi;s only the first of three different game modes found in <em>Samurai &amp&semi; Dragons<&sol;em>&period; There is also a card-collection system that allows you to play the integrated <em>S&amp&semi;D<&sol;em> card game against your online companions&period;  Last&comma; but not least&comma; there&&num;8217&semi;s a territory-based strategy game mode that lets players build&comma; develop&comma; and expand their cities&comma; as well as attack other cities in order to create their own personal empire&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>How will Sega make money off of a free-to-play model&comma; you ask&quest;  Well&comma; they released a Deluxe package for a retail price of ¥3800 &lpar;&dollar;47&period;30 US&rpar; on April 26&comma; 2012&period;  They also provide an assortment of gear available for the dungeon-crawler game mode via the in-game store&comma; helping players as they make their way through the combat portion of the game&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Unfortunately for the Western gamers&comma; the game is currently unavailable in any language other than Japanese&comma; and a Western release has not been confirmed by Sega at this time&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;