Irem's ship-shooter turned strategy game for the PSP based on the R-Type universe, R-Type Tactics, looks to becoming stateside early next year.

Retitled R-Type Command for the U.S., the tentative date is March 4th, 2008. Pricing is to be $39.99.

Released a couple of months ago in Japan, R-Type Tactics is a turn-based, hex-grid stategy game. Use a variety of R-Type ships in your squadron through an assortment of missions and take on the Bydo Empire.




http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=207203

Granted, Neogaf is like the NYTimes of gaming boards, stuck up and not the most credible place in the world. But sometimes they are right.

And Gamefaqs/Gamespot also now lists Atlus as the US Publisher under the new name

http://www.gamefaqs.com/portable/psp/data/939773.html

(and since no credit is given, it must have been done by someone internally, not someone reading the NeoGaf post)