Well, Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten is certainly getting the royal treatment when it comes to releases! I mean, the game isn’t out until September, and NIS America has already announced two different special editions. So if paying $49.99 and just getting the PS3 game seems distasteful to you, you have two more elaborate options.

First, there’s a Disgaea 4 Premium Edition…

If you’ve been putting off buying Super Meat Boy on Steam, patiently waiting for the retail release, then take a good look at the box art to the right. Embrace it. Memorize it. That’s what you’re going to need to keep an eye out for online and on store shelves in April, 2011. It shouldn’t be too difficult to locate. Super Meat Boy Ultra Edition is awfully red, after all…

If you’re one of those people who has been waiting over 10 years for Duke Nukem Forever, then you may be a perfect candidate for the Balls of Steel edition. Yes, there is going to be a collector’s edition of the game, and that is what it is called. Really catches your attention. The Duke Nukem Forever First Access Club got to hear about it first, and now Gearbox Software and 2K Games have officially announced it to the world…

It’s been over 10 years since Aya Brea’s last major adventure, but that isn’t going to hold her back. The 3rd Birthday‘s almost here and a new generation of PSP-owning gamers are going to see why fans have been clamoring for a new Parasite Eve. The game will be released in North America on March 29, 2011 and in Europe around the same time, in spring 2011.

Odds are, you’ll want the European version of The 3rd Birthday. Instead of being some standard game release, like North America is getting, it will be a TWISTED Edition…

If you want the collector’s edition of The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, start saving. CD Projekt and Atari’s PC RPG will be out May 17, 2011, so that will be plenty of time to get the $129.99 you need. Yes, you read that correctly – $129.99. And most of the items you get with it will probably be only used or looked at once, then back in the box for storage. You’ll probably even forget about them…

The special edition of Killzone 3 is only for people who have both lots of cash lying around and an undying devotion to the series. The Helghast Edition is a massive compilation with a game and lots of other Killzone 3 goodies stuffed into a fake Helghast helmet. If that already sounds appealing to you, make sure you have $129.99 on hand when February 22, 2011 comes around…

Gamertell recently had the opportunity to attend an Etrian Odyssey III: The Drowned City demonstration led by Atlus’ Aram Jabbari and Nich Maragos that went into some of the new additions to the series introduced in the third game. The next step in DS first person dungeon crawling and cartography may not be out until September 21, 2010, but we now know a bit more about what party creation, sea exploration and dungeon scouring will be like.

Before the demonstration began, Jabbari showed a sneak peek of the Etrian Odyssey III preorder incentive, the Etrian Odyssey: Forests of Eternity artbook. There were images showing location art, character sketches and much more. It reminded me a bit of the Knights in the Nightmare DS preorder book, Knights in the Nightmare: Tome of Lost Souls. But where the Knights in the Nightmare book was more of a companion guide/artbook, the Etrian Odyssey III book is all about the art from all three entries in the series.

After that sneak peek, Jabbari and Maragos took a moment to show what party creation would be like in the latest entry. When the game began, there were 10 classes available…

Do you love the Naughty Dog and Sony’s Uncharted 2: Among Thieves to spend $65 on its art book? What about $129? Or maybe $300? Ballistic Publishing is releasing three separate editions of The Art of Uncharted 2: Among Thieves in April, 2010, and those are the prices for each of them. Each book is 272 pages long and features art and designs Naughty Dog used when creating the PS3 game.

The $300 version of The Art of Uncharted 2: Among Thieves is a limited folio edition with only 200 copies available. It’s bound in black suede leather, hand numbered, has a leather bound case, gold cover art and comes with a certificate of authenticity…

This probably won’t surprise too many people who’ve been waiting on the first English Sakura Wars game, but Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love has once again been delayed. So now the strategy game/visual novel/dating simulation, which was originally supposed to be released For a while, it looked as though NIS might be releasing Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love before 2009 ended, but it quickly slid back to a March 23, 2010 release date. It’s happened again, and now the final, official, it’s-really-going-to-definitely-be-out date is March 30, 2010.

Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love will be available in both premium and standard forms, though only Wii owners will have the option of purchasing a standard edition. The premium PS2 and Wii copies of the game will each have dual-layer discs, so people have the option of playing with the original Japanese voices or English dubbed. It also comes with an art book and poster, and costs $39.99….

Atlus has just announced that all three RPGs released by the company this holiday season will come with soundtrack CDs and have artbook preorder bonuses. Atlus had previously that soundtracks would accompany Eternal Poison, Luminous Arc 2 and Persona 4, and now has decided to offer 60-100 page art books as well. GameStop/EB Games, Amazon.com and Game Crazy are the four retailers specifically mentioned for the deal, but other stores should offer the artbook preorder as well…