Dynasty Warriors 8 XL has been announced via Famitsu. Chen Gong, the winner of the Famitsu poll, and Wu general Zhu Ran will be making their debuts! There are still more characters to be announced in future. 

The game is set for a 28/11 release in Japan and will be out for the Vita and PS3. News on a western release (and thus a 360 port) is still unknown.

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• Challenge Mode is returning
  • The mode will now reward a certain useful item when new records are set
  • Online Ranking is also returning
• Story Mode will have a new playable storyline for Lu Bu's force
  • The story will much describe most of Lu Bu's lifetime, from serving Ding Yuan, to betraying him and going to Dong Zhuo, then killing the latter and becoming independent
  • There is also a what-if branch where Lu Bu's force will become dominating
  • Producer Suzuki said that by giving more focus on Lu Bu, they are going back to the roots of the Xtreme Legends expansions (could be referring to the first XL: DW3XL)
• Commander/Ambition Mode will have a new goal in "Unification"
  • By playing more stages in the mode, there will be a new conquest ratio available which will determine if a region will be conquered
• There will be new weapons (maybe referring to 6th weapons)
• Characters may be having a 2nd EX attack (75% certainty)

Miscellaneous

• Since a PlayStation Vita version has also been announced, DW8XL will become available in 3 different packages
  • PS3 DW8XL standalone game (possibly may require Mixjoy/Remix to connect with vanilla DW8)
  • PS3 DW8-with-XL combined game
  • PSV DW8-with-XL combined game
  
  All 3 package types will be available in physical disc(PS3)/cartridge(PSV) and digital download
• Cross-platform play between PS3 & PSV versions are confirmed
• Save data from PS3 vanilla DW8 can be brought over to not only PS3 DW8XL, but also the PSV version. Cross-platform save is also possible
• High probability that bought DW8 DLCs might carry over to DW8XL

Will Dynasty Warriors have an impact on Vita sales?? Not that it was bad last week with nearly 20k in Japan. 

Small impact, 2-4k boost at best I reckon.

And nobody cared.

Chen Gong looks like a more dapper Jia Xu.

I wonder who the other new characters will be. Come on, King Wutugu! It's time!

Glad they went with Chen Cong's first concept, his 2nd concept was crap.

Vita version releases here and im sold, otherwise im content with 8 for now. been playing the series since 4 and its so good but buying all 3 versions at full price, no thanks. wonder if its got cross save

Why even post? 

I want Empire!