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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

Is this Persona Related? Do You Care?

Tokyo-based game maker Atlus has a teaser site up. It’s yellow, and it’s probably teasing something. [P-Atlus]

By Brian Ashcraft Published August 25, 2011

Persona Studio to Publish New King of Fighters

According to this teaser site, Atlus is bringing SNK’s The King of Fighters XIII to North American this fall. [Thanks, Brotha Kyo!]

By Brian Ashcraft Published June 7, 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

Persona Series Getting HD Title

The Persona role-playing-game franchise is getting a hi-def entry called “Catherine”. It’s an action-adventure type game that is aimed at adults. The game follows Vincent as he wakes up every night from his dreams. Vincent, website Siliconera points out, appeared in Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 Portable!. Catherine is being developed for the PS3 and…

By Brian Ashcraft Published August 18, 2010

Persona Moved From PS3 to PSP?!

There have been rumblings that the next Persona role-playing game, Persona 5, will be a PS3 game. The Australian Classification Board seems to have confirmed that. Or did it? Earlier this week, the Classification Board’s website listed Shin Megami Tensei: Persona and “(PS3)”. The date of classification is May 24, 2010. But is this Persona…

By Brian Ashcraft Published May 26, 2010

This Is A Pretty Good Persona 3 Statue

Aigis from Japanese role-playing game Persona 3 is getting a couple of limited edition statues. One features her in heavy armor. The other doesn’t. Let’s look at that one. This is the “normal version”, which was sculpted by Yusuke Mazaki of Sakura Zensen, shows Aigis sans heavy armor. The 265mm-high statue is priced at ¥16,000…

By Brian Ashcraft Published April 23, 2010

Persona 4, Explained In Pictures

Persona has one of the most unique core mechanics in all of gaming. But the series’ finer points may be lost on newcomers, or those ignorant of its enduring appeal. For those people, then, there is this comic. Artist and Persona fan Hiimdaisy has penned this amazing, loooooong comic that does a great job of…

By Luke Plunkett Published August 4, 2009

Some Mega Man, Metroid & Persona Figures For Your Wishlist

You probably won’t ever get your hands on any of these figures, as they’re custom kits sold only in limited quantities, but hey, nobody’s going to stop you from dreaming. Shown off at the recent Wonder Festival in Japan, and crafted by Dimension Diver, there’s exquisite Mega Man, Roll, Samus, Aegis & Metis figures on…

By Luke Plunkett Published July 31, 2009