July 6, 2013
For immediate release

DANGANRONPA: TRIGGER HAPPY HAVOC OPENS FIRE!
Anime Expo, Calif. (July 6, 2013) – NIS America is thrilled to announce that the highly
popular mystery adventure game, DanganRonpa™: Trigger Happy Havoc, will be making
its way to the PlayStation®Vita in both North America and Europe early next year. The
game is a revised and revamped edition of a title originally released on thePlayStation®Portable in Japan in 2010. You’ll take on the role of Makoto Naegi, adesperately average teenager who somehow finds himself accepted into Hope's PeakAcademy, a prestigious high school normally reserved for the nation's most "ultimate"
students. But when he arrives, he and the other students soon find themselves trapped in abattle for survival against a twisted mastermind who has taken them all prisoner. You'll
have to unmask the villain and uncover the secret of the school...or die trying!
For more information, please visit NISAmerica.com/danganronpa/

About Spike Chunsoft
Headquartered in Tokyo, Spike
Chunsoft Co., Ltd. is a Japan based
publisher and developer specialized inconsole and social video gameindustries. Spike Chunsoft has
published some of the best-sellingconsole games in Japan, namely Wayof the Samurai series, Mystery
Dungeon series and Zero Escape:Virtue’s Last Reward. Spike Chunsoft
also has extensive experience with thedevelopment of console video games,such as Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate
Tenkaichi for PS3® and Xbox 360.

About NIS America
In 2003, NIS America was established inSouthern California to bring exciting,
one-of-a-kind Japanese culture to North
America.
NIS America’s team members devote
themselves to the fans. Their respect
for their fans is at the heart ofeverything they do. As an established
entertainment publisher in the U.S., NIS
America is committed to continuous
growth and improvement.
NIS America is a subsidiary of Nippon
Ichi Software, Inc., a Japanese company
famous for its unique line of strategy
RPGs with titles such as Disgaea,
Phantom Brave, and Makai Kingdom.
NIS America has also become apublisher of Japanese anime titles, suchas Toradora!, anohana: The Flower We
Saw That Day, and Natsume’s Book ofFriends.
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About the game:
Hope's Peak Academy is home to Japan's best and brightest high school students—thebeacons of hope for the future. But that hope suddenly dies when Makoto Naegi and hisclassmates find themselves imprisoned in the school, cut off from the outside world andsubject to the whims of a strange, murderous little bear named Monokuma. He pits thestudents against each other, promising freedom to anyone who can murder a fellow
classmate and get away with it. It's up to you to find out who Monokuma really is, and why
you've been taken from the world you once knew. But be careful what you wish for—sometimes there’s nothing more deadly than the truth...
Key features:
Daily Life, Deadly Life: Trapped in a school-turned-prison, students are murdering eachother one by one. You’ll have to investigate each incident, search for clues, and talk to yourclassmates to try and get to the bottom of each brutal case!
Mock Trial: The nefarious Monokuma serves as judge, jury, and executioner as you engage
in deadly wordplay, going back and forth with suspects, dissecting their statements andfiring their words back at them to expose their lies!
Popularity Contest: Sway classmates to your side in each investigation, squeezing
information from them to figure out who did it. And when you do, turn up the heat in avariety of timing and reflex-based game systems to uncover the truth and save your skin!

Release date
Platform
GenrePlayer(s): Early 2014
: PlayStation®Vita: Mystery Adventure: Single

ESRB/PEGI/USK : RP
Publisher: NIS America, Inc.
Developer: Spike Chunsoft Co.,Ltd.
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