Persona 4 Arena Update: According to Famitsu (via Siliconera), there's a new version of arcade fighter Persona 4 Arena for Japan. Good news: it adds Yukari Takeba and Junpei Iori from Persona 3. Discuss… 8/16/13 9:00am 8/16/13 9:00am

Indulge me my current fascination with Persona figures, but each time I see one, the bar gets a little higher. Take this Elizabeth figure from Persona 3 (appearing here in her Persona 4 Arena guise). Read… 8/02/13 3:00am 8/02/13 3:00am

People competed in nine different fighting games in last weekend's EVO 2013 tournament in Las Vegas. To see everything, you had to continuously switch between two streams back and forth from Friday to Sunday evening, so even hardcore fighting game fans might have missed one or two. Read… 7/15/13 10:40am 7/15/13 10:40am

This Persona figure, by Vertex, will probably cost you $120-130. Which is a lot for something that's only 1/7 scale (not much bigger than your standard action figure). Then again, your standard figure isn't of Persona 3's Mitsuru Kirijo. Read… 6/13/13 5:30am 6/13/13 5:30am

Japan was playing the Persona fighting game in March of 2012. In North America we got our chance in August. Europe has to wait until May 10, but if they preorder at Game they'll score this awesome 12-inch vinyl copy of the arrange soundtrack for their troubles. Man, I would have totally waited until May for a chance… Read… 3/27/13 1:39pm 3/27/13 1:39pm

I don't own too many video game figures. Thanks to my newfound fascination with Persona, that may have to change. For example: I would gladly put this garage kit figure of Elizabeth and her persona Thanatos pretty much anywhere in my house. Read… 12/20/12 10:30pm 12/20/12 10:30pm

In today's episode of Speak Up on TAYtaku, because folks are spending more time there than in Speak Up, commenter MrGilder explains how the fear of new versions of new fighting games has him frozen in fear. Read… 8/03/12 5:30pm 8/03/12 5:30pm

The upcoming PS3 and Xbox 360 release of fighting game Persona 4 Arena is, in North America at least, taking the rare and terrible move of being completely region-locked. Read… 7/06/12 12:00am 7/06/12 12:00am

Perhaps I constructed that headline incorrectly. What it should read is "Memorize the Fighting Moves of My Favorite Persona Character and Five Others", because no one could ever defeat Chie Satonaka. I guess that would have been too long. Read… 6/27/12 8:30am 6/27/12 8:30am

These sweet new screens of the Arcade Mode in Atlus' upcoming Persona fighter jogged my memory of the time two weeks ago I would have beat the publisher's PR master had he not surely cheated terribly. Read… 6/18/12 9:30pm 6/18/12 9:30pm