Square Enix, Inc., the publisher of Square Enix interactive entertainment products in North America, announced today that their upcoming Action-RPG NIER for PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system and the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, will be available at North American retail outlets on April 27, 2010.

The latest offering from the RPG masters at Square Enix, NIER is a unique "Action-RPG" that blends traditional RPG gameplay mechanics with intense, bloody combat and powerful magic to create an action-packed single-player experience where players explore and discover a future lost to a shadowy past.

Developed by cavia Inc, NIER delivers on Square Enix's renowned pedigree for creating unique and twisting storylines coupled with deep character development – a pedigree that has kept gamers around the world enraptured for decades.

Players will jump into the title role of the unyielding Nier as he begins his desperate quest to discover a cure for his daughter, Yonah, who is stricken with the deadly Black Scrawl disease. Armed with powerful magic as well as mighty swords, Nier will battle alongside formidable allies against waves of dark enemies and giant bosses to discover the truth about the disease, his daughter"and himself.

For more information about NIER, please visit the game's official Web site at http://www.niergame.com/.