Confirming rumors from earlier this morning, Nintendo said Friday that it will bring critically acclaimed role-playing game Xenoblade Chronicles to the U.S.

Xenoblade Chronicles will be available this April for Wii, Nintendo announced on its Facebook page.

Nintendo also confirmed that the game will only be available from specialty retailer GameStop and from Nintendo's own online store. As rumored earlier, Xenoblade Chronicles will be sold exclusively in GameStop's brick-and-mortar locations.

In June, Nintendo said it had "no plans" to publish the Japanese RPG in North America after a fan campaign called Operation Rainfall swarmed its Twitter and Facebook pages with localization requests. As a result, some fans imported the game when an English version was released in Europe over the summer.

European gaming outlets had nothing but praise for Xenoblade Chronicles. The notoriously harsh Edge magazine called it "a glowing comeback for the Japanese RPG."

Xenoblade Chronicles was developed by Monolith Soft, the company responsible for the Xenosaga and Baten Kaitos RPG series. Director Tetsuya Takahashi has worked on a number of classic role-playing games, including Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy VII.

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