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This Persona Fighting Game Trailer Is Giving Me a Headache
Not because it looks bad. It looks great! But all that flashing, and bright lights, and flashing. Argh! I sadly didn’t get a chance to play Persona 4 The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena at last week’s Tokyo Game Show, when it was playable, but the guys from Kotaku Japan did and said it was surprisingly…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 22, 2011 -
Persona Punches Out Arcade Gameplay Footage
Persona 4 The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena brings the stylish pizazz of Persona to the face-kicking 2D chaos of BlazBlue creators Arc System Works. The game is arcade bound and then headed to consoles. Have a gander at some gameplay footage, running on an arcade cabinet. Don’t fret, I do move my finger from blocking…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 16, 2011 -
It’s a Sin Only Europe Gets This Persona 2 Collector’s Edition
Are you seeing red, North American Persona fans? That’s because this European collector’s edition of the PSP redux of Persona 2: Innocent Sin comes with so much more than the skimpy mini-soundtrack we’re getting over here. Ghostlight, the company handling Innocent Sin’s European release, is pulling out several of the stops to please fans of…
By Mike Fahey Published September 15, 2011 -
Now Feast Your Eyes on the First Trailer for the Persona 4 Fighting Game
You’ve drooled over the gorgeous screenshots, now take a look at the first official trailer for Persona 4: The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena, the welcome marriage of Atlus’ role-playing with Arc System Works fighting know-how. This is the first time I’ve gotten to write about Persona 4: The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena since it was…
By Mike Fahey Published September 8, 2011 -
Feast Your Eyes on the Gorgeous Persona 4 Fighting Game
Last week, Japanese game mag Famitsu gave us our first look at an unexpected new fighting game—Persona 4: The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena. Based on Atlus’ role-playing game series, the arcade fighter plucks characters from Persona 3 and Persona 4 for 2D fighting fun. Now, thanks to Atlus and developer Arc System Works (BlazBlue, Guilty…
By Michael McWhertor Published September 7, 2011 -
So That’s What a Persona Fighting Game Looks Like… Wow
A Persona fighting game? It’s really happening, thanks to the people at Atlus and BlazBlue creators Arc System Works. This is what it looks like—lovely!—and this is who will be beating each other up in Persona 4 The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena The Persona fighting game, coming first to arcades later this year, then to…
By Michael McWhertor Published August 31, 2011 -
There’s A Persona 4 for PlayStation Vita… and a Persona Fighting Game Too?!
Atlus is giving future PlayStation Vita owners something to get excited about: a portable port of the PlayStation 2 game Persona 4, reportedly due for release in Japan in 2012 and packing lots of enhancements. Japanese retailer blog Sinobi reports that Persona 4: The Golden, as it’s supposedly called, adds new animation, at least one…
By Michael McWhertor Published August 30, 2011 -
Persona 2: Innocent Sin Coming to America
According to Atlus, rpg Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 2: Innocent Sin is coming to North American PSPs this fall. This is the only Persona game never to receive a North American release. Atlus teased the game’s localization late last week.
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 24, 2011 -
Atlus Travels Back in Time to Tease Persona 2: Innocent Sin
Atlus Faithful fan club members received a bizarre mailing today in the form of a newsletter dated June 23, 1999. What’s significant about that date? Why that’s when the only Persona game not to hit North America was released in Japan. How odd. For all intents and purposes it looks as if Atlus simply made…
By Mike Fahey Published May 19, 2011 -
Another Day, Another Action Figure of Persona’s Aegis
The world is not desperately short on action figures based on the character Aegis, of popular role-playing series Persona. Think that’ll stop Bandai from releasing another one? Spoiler alert: it won’t. Due for release in Japan in September, this particular Aegis will set you back a little over USD$50. [via Tomopop]
By Luke Plunkett Published May 19, 2011 -
A Treasure Trove Of Nerd Figurines
Over the past week, the figure-centric Treasure Festa was held in Tokyo. It was, as they say, a symphony of sculpted plastic. From The King of Fighters to Love Plus, there were all sorts of upcoming gaming figurines to behold. So do that, behold them. M’kay? グリフォン新作やミリメの新作ガレキ「アスカ」の彩色サンプルなど！「トレジャーフェスタin有明4」会場の様子 [Moeyo.com]
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 15, 2010 -
Catherine’s Sexy Box Art Is Not For The Sheepish
Atlus is making its adult role-playing game Catherine as suggestive as possible. What does a tiny man with ram horns stuck in a woman’s cleavage suggest to you? Catherine is an adult Persona spin-off that deals with sex, dreams, and murder, so I suppose this Japanese box art conveys those themes in some fashion. The…
By Mike Fahey Published December 3, 2010 -
What’s The Story With Catherine?
Grisly murders, deadly nightmares, and a marriage proposal followed immediately by a one-night-stand? What exactly is going on in Atlus’ Catherine? the game’s official website gives us the skinny. The Japanese website for Atlus’ Persona side-story Catherine has updated its story section, and Japanese gaming website Adriasang has translated the details, shedding light on what…
By Mike Fahey Published November 2, 2010 -
What Nintendo 3DS Games Is Japan Excited About?
The Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo’s 3D-glasses-free portable, isn’t out yet. Nintendo has only said it will be out before next April. Yet, Japanese people are excited to play games on it. But which games? Website 4Gamer polled over 21,000 of its readers about which Nintendo 3DS games they were most excited about. Here are the results…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 3, 2010 -
Persona Developer Merged
In 2007, Index Holdings, which owns movie company Nikkatsu and anime studio Madhouse, bought up the majority of Altus stock. Atlus is being merged, and the Atlus name will cease to exist as a registered corporation. Index Holdings will be merging Index, its mobile content developer, into Atlus. This move looks to streamline the corporate…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 30, 2010 -
Atlus Is Making Catherine As Suggestive As Possible
Catherine is the upcoming PS3 and Xbox 360 game from Japanese developer Atlus. It is a spin-off of the Persona series of role-playing games. An adult one. As evident by the game’s launch trailer and now the promotional poster, Atlus wasn’t kidding when it said it was making a game for adult players. It is…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 24, 2010 -
Mona Lisa, Made Cuter
Mysterious. Enigmatic. Mona Lisa might called a lot of things, but cute isn’t one of them. Until now. A Japanese morning program showed off recent trends in sticker picture machines. Sticker picture machines were originally developed by Persona developer Atlus in 1996 with the help of Sega. The machines were an arcade smash hit with…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 24, 2010 -
NSFW: Catherine Gets Debut Trailer
Catherine, the upcoming hi-def role-playing game from Persona developer Atlus, features scary sheep dreams, animation from Studio 4C and, from the looks of this trailer, lots of bumping and grinding. The trailer kicks off with the male protagonist (Vincent) asking a woman if she’s heard that when people die in a dream, they die in…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 20, 2010