Today, IGN can confirm that Dragon’s Crown – the long-awaited PS3 and Vita action-RPG from Vanillaware – is coming out in North America on August 6, 2013. Coincidentally, this is the exact release date for the game we revealed back in March through an anonymous source . There’s no word yet on its release date in Europe.

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Dragon’s Crown is a PlayStation exclusive and will cost $49.99 on PlayStation 3 and $39.99 on PlayStation Vita. There doesn’t appear to be any cross-buy option between the console and handheld versions.We’ll have much, much more on Dragon’s Crown in the very near future. In the meantime, take a look at some brand new screenshots from the game, and browse through our extensive Dragon’s Crown video catalog

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