The Japanese online game company GameOn announced  that is plans to begin alpha testing for the Lodoss-Tō Senki Online (Record of Lodoss War Online) game this summer.

Being released in Japan on on June 19 is Pokemon Art Academy 3DS game. THe game traches drawing techniques, and includes instructional exercises with 40 different Pokémon and a total of 100 monsters to use for reference in the Free Paint feature.

The game offers a variety of tools for drawing, like the pencil, outline pen, marker pen, paint brush, pastel, and spray paint tools. Players can take pictures with their 3DS camera to use for reference and share drawings with friends.

Being released in Japan on June 27 followed by N. America release this year is the PS vita game, Freedom Wars.  The game's website also reveals that players can choose from either a male or female protagonist and can also customize the gender and voice of the character's "Accessory" android companion.

The official website describes the story:

A Story for "Freedom": Sentence for One Million Years In near future, the world will become an unlivable land for all living creatures. For this reason, people have built cities called “Panopticon” at various locations of the world for survival.

However due to a severer lack of resources and an undesirable living environment, these cities start to conflict with each other. In order to effectively rule the people of Panopticon, most people are put into sentence.

RECAPTURE: Those forced into the servitude were called "criminals", and are forced to participate in war as so-called "volunteers". In order to obtain freedom, the "criminals" fight to "recapture" the city, time and time again.