Digimon Heroes Adopts New Name Translations, Drops Dub Name Support

January 27th, 2016. This morning the English translation of Digimon Crusader, Digimon Heroes, launched worldwide on both Android and iOS platforms. In a surprise move, the app abandons many of the conventional English names for various Digimon, ditching many older names in favor of direct translations from Japanese. For example, Pegasusmon is now called Pegasmon, Armageddemon is now called Armagemon, and DemiDevimon is now called Picodevimon. Armor Digi-Eggs now go by their original Japanese names, Digimentals.

Although for many years Digimon has had strong advocates of adopting the Asian-English names used by Bandai of Japan in the Digimon Reference Book and merchandise, these names are not exactly the same as those used in Japan. For example, "Picodevimon" is normally parsed as "Pico Devimon." Some anomalies also remain in the translation, with the app using "Digifuse" (a dub name for DigiXros) for what Crusader just called "strengthen."

Players in Digimon Heroes take on the role of a Digimon tamer called to File Island by Angewomon to save it from Armagemon. In-game the player battles by matching cards of different colors, which power up Digimon of the same color.

Global Launch of Digimon Heroes Approaching

January 21st, 2016. The official Digimon Heroes Facebook page posted today hinting at a rapidly approaching global release for Heroes, the English-language localization of the Digimon Crusader mobile game. Until now Heroes has been restricted to specific regions; it was originally announced for a late 2015 global launch, but was delayed to fall 2016. More than 3,000 people had preregistered for the game the first day that registration opened late last December, and the current number of cumulative preregistrations at the time of this writing exceeds 19,000.

Over 3,000 Tamers Preregistered for Digimon Heroes

November 28th, 2015. Mobile application preregistration platform PreLaunch.Me has put up a page for the upcoming Digimon Heroes, the English-language localization of Digimon Crusader. At the time of this writing the Android version of Heroes is currently leading at 3,130 preregistrations, while the iOS version has just 19.

At present Heroes is only available in Australia, New Zealand, and Romania. Bandai US has indicated that there may be news on Heroes during their December 1st Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth livestream on Twitch.

Bandai US Streaming Cyber Sleuth December 1st, Digimon Heroes! News

November 17th, 2015. Bandai Namco US has announced they will be livestreaming the English translation of Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth on December 1st, 2015. The news comes on the heels of Bandai Namco UK's own stream announcement for November 19th, during which there will be a giveaway of Digimon plush toys. According to Bandai UK, the company will be giving away an Agumon plush toy if they reach one thousand viewers during the stream. The US stream will be held on their Twitch channel from 4 PM to 5 PM Pacific Daylight Time/7 PM to 8 PM Eastern Time.

Bandai US' ad for the American stream also mentions Digimon Heroes!, the English translation of the smartphone game Digimon Crusader, due to launch this fall. Heroes! is currently only available in Australia and Romania, and the ad may point to a final launch date for the United States and other regions being announced during their stream.

The English edition of Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth will launch in the United States on February 2nd, 2015, on the PlayStation Vita, PSTV, and PlayStation 4. Its Chinese translation will debut in Taiwan later this month, on November 25th, 2015. The international editions of Cyber Sleuth will include new difficulty modes, as well as two new Digimon not found in the Japanese game.