Below is new information about Samurai & Dragons, the free to play RPG for Vita from the latest issue of Famitsu.

• Mix between action stages and strategic city building gameplay
• Want to use the Near functionality of Vita for a type of communication that can’t be achieved on a cell phone
• Playable at Jump Festa
• City building referred to the “Battle Part”
• As you expand your territory, you’ll come into contact with the kingdoms of other players, and will face off against one-another in card-based battles
• Vita chosen because it can always be connected online, has numerous features the staff wanted to use
• Team has ideas for how to use the touch screen and motion sensors
• Made by SEGA’s new Online Entertainment Research Department team
• Similar to the iOS game Kingdom Conquest
• Yakuza producer Masayoshi Kikuchi is chief producer for this title
• Winner receives the land and expands his territory
• Goal is to take over the world
• Samurai & Dragons name comes from an attempt to mix West and East
• Dragons are enemies in the game
• Four players work together to battle through a dungeon and defeat a boss for the action part
• Spirits, skeletons, other creatures included as well