Here's a treat for those of us itching to experience some portable SRPG joy with Disgaea: Afternoon of Darkness - the first five minutes of the game, in full English, captured lovingly on video! Yep, Laharl, Etna and company are back to take care of business on your PlayStation Portable, and business will be booming pretty soon.

This five-minute nugget of non-stop Disgaea happy features Etna trying to wake Laharl, the Prince of Darkness himself, by ways we probably shouldn't even mention. Of course, he does wake up, but unfortunately gets clocked into next week with another well-placed round to the temple. We're then given control of Etna, who goes out to take over the Netherworld - with the help of her ever-so-loyal Prinny Squad, of course.

Enough spoilers from us, enjoy the video!

Pop quiz: Quick, tell us what NIS America is known for? If you answered grid-based Strategy RPGs, with the fervor of a grade-grubbing 10 year-old girl, then you're probably a fan and you fully understand why the screenshot of Aedis Eclipse: Generation of Chaos above slightly resembles Disgaea.

The game is said to focus on reduced loading times compared to previous SRPG PSP titles, so you'll be able to spend more time playing and thinking up your next move, and less time waiting for the stage or cut-scene to load.

Story-wise Aedis Eclipse is divided into three worlds: divine, upper, and lower. Each world will have its own main character, and and its own campaign. The difficulty setting of the game will depend on which world you begin on. Starting on the divine world should give you the hardest setting.

This latest installment in the Generation of Chaos series for the PSP is developed by Idea Factory. The NIS-published game is said to be available to you grid-loving PlayStation Portable owners come April this year.

  

Above are a few thumbnails of character art, and below is a download link to a movie featuring the main characters in the game - just in case you're a fan of the genre, but you haven't gotten around to pre-ordering a copy yet. For even more screens, feel free to check out our read link below. Enjoy folks!

Download: Aedis Eclipse Character Movie

Nippon Ichi, the creators of Disgaea and a ton of other SRPGs, has opened up a teaser site for an upcoming game. It looks like the game will be revealed in Dengeki PlayStation. This obviously means that the new game will be on a PlayStation platform. Chances are that it's a ps2">PS2 game or maybe a PSP game. However, we can't rule out the possibility that it's on the PS3! Then again, Sony may want HD in all the games and that's not exactly something Nippon Ichi is interested in...but still, anything is possible.

The magazine will be revealed on September 8th. We don't know who exactly the two characters in the image are. The game is almost definitely an SRPG though since Nippon Ichi is most well-known in that particular genre.