Namco Bandai Games weren’t content with just announcing Solarobo this week — the company also unveiled ideas to release Tales of Phantasia X, a pair of remakes put together on a single disc. It’s set to hit the PSP sometime later this year in Japan; no US release has been revealed.

TOPX consists of two titles. The first, Tales of Phantasia Cross Edition, is a remake (originally launched on the PSP in 2006) of the very first Tales RPG in the whole series. The Cross Edition has a few small improvements from the previous fully-voiced remake, including a revised battle system and a selection of new story events, but largely it’s the same as before.

Completely new this time around is a full-on remake of Tales of Phantasia: Narikiri Dungeon, an RPG launched exclusively in Japan for the Game Boy Color in 2000. Set a hundred years after the original TOP, it tells the sale of Dio and Mel, two explorers who can change into a variety of outfits to transform their class and battle skillsets on the fly. The game largely revolves around exploring randomly-generated dungeons, and as you’d expect, the graphics and visual scenes have been completely redone from the ground up to modern PSP standards.

Japanese developer CyberConnect2 launched the first details today on Solarobo, a new robot action game and the first Nintendo DS title in the studio’s history. It’s set to be launched in Japan from Namco Bandai Games; no US launch has been revealed.

launched to commemorate the 15th anniversary of CyberConnect2’s founding, Solarobo boasts a gameplay and visual style very close to Tail Concerto (above), a 1998 PlayStation title that was the studio’s first game ever. “I’m not joking when I say that this game’s been in conception for 10 years and in development for three,” CC2 head Hiroshi Matsuyama told Famitsu magazine this week. “Crazy, isn’t it? Three years for a Nintendo DS game! I’m impressed Namco Bandai waited that long for us.”

The game is set in a world composed of floating islands, one where dog-like and cat-like humanoid species have banded together to create an advanced civilization. As shown in the fully-animated intro (created by anime studio Madhouse), you play Red Savarin, a dog bounty hunter who works with his sister Chocolat and DAHAK-AZI03, his cool personal robot, to take on jobs and catch his targets.