Ninja Gaiden 3's set to don its katana and get slicing in March 2012, publisher Tecmo Koei has announced

The game's release window was confirmed by Team Ninja head, Yosuke Hayashi, at an event in San Francisco overnight. Joystiq was around to catch the news.

New additions to Ninja Gaiden 3 include a controversial "Easy" mode, which Team Ninja hopes will pull newcomers into the series. But as Joystiq hypothesises, the game's still likely to be proper hard.