Atlus parent corporation Index Holdings posts loss for fiscal year

Atlus parent corporation Index Holdings posts loss for fiscal year

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, Handheld, Nintendo DS/3DS, Playstation 3, Xbox 360 On: 16 Apr

Giant media conglomerate Index Holdings announced that they have posted a $27 million dollar loss for the 2012 fiscal year. Index Holdings is the owner of a number of smaller Japanese companies, including Atlus, the creators of the Shin Megami Tensei series and Etrian Odyssey.

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Shin Megami Tensei IV confirmed for US release, coming this Summer

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Gaming News, Handheld, Nintendo DS/3DS On: 02 Apr

Shin Megami Tensei IV will be released in the US sometime this summer, Atlus announced today.

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Persona 2: Eternal Punishment coming to PSN tomorrow

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, Playstation 3 On: 25 Feb

American Persona fans were heartbroken when Atlus announced that the PSP port of Persona 2: Eternal Punishment wasn’t going to get an English localization. While it’s regrettable that we won’t be able to play the revamped version of the game, Atlus is at least giving us a decent consolation prize: the original PS1 version of [...]

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Atlus announces US release for 3DS Shin Megami Tensei: Soul Hackers

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Handheld, Nintendo DS/3DS On: 19 Dec

In the wake of the break-out popularity of Persona 3 and 4, most of the newer entries in the Shin Megami Tensei series have managed to make it over the Pacific and have received localized releases in the States. That wasn’t always the case, however, as a lot of the earlier SMT games from the [...]

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First Shin Megami Tensei IV trailer unveiled

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Gaming News, Handheld, Nintendo DS/3DS On: 28 Aug

Persona gets all the love nowadays, but Atlus’ life-sim/dungeon crawler hybrid is just one part of the bigger Shin Megami Tensei franchise, a series which has been a staple of the J-RPG scene ever since the 8-bit days. It’s been a few years since we’ve seen a new entry into the “main” SMT series, but [...]

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Atlus has started work on the next Persona game

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News On: 08 Aug

I know, this doesn’t sound like “real” news. Yes, the headline for this tidbit of news is basically “company making a sequel to a game that sold a lot,” but while this announcement isn’t exactly a revelation, it should make Persona’s legions of fans very happy.

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Persona 4 Arena is the first region locked PS3 game

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, Playstation 3 On: 06 Jul

The Wii has it, most Xbox 360 games have it, and now, the PS3 is going to get it: region locked games. For most of this generation, Sony’s region free Playstation 3 has been the go-to console of choice for import gamers, but that may all soon change: Earlier this week Japanese publisher Atlus confirmed [...]

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Demon’s Souls servers stave off death yet again

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, Playstation 3 On: 27 May

While Demon’s Souls takes pride in the brutal ways it kills its players, its servers just won’t seem to die. Atlus announced a few months ago that the game’s servers would be shut down on May 31st, but it appears that Demon’s Souls online functionality has been given another stay of execution.

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Demon’s Souls Servers Go Dark on May 31st

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, Playstation 3 On: 12 Apr

Still playing the original Demon’s Souls? Well, From Software’s original brutally difficult RPG is about to get a whole lot lonelier, since Atlus announced that the online servers for the game will finally be taken offline on May 31st.

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Persona 4 Anime Recruits Game’s English Dub Cast, Forgets to Tell Them

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, Playstation 3, Xbox 360 On: 10 Apr

The Persona 4 anime is coming to Blu-Ray and DVD later this year courtesy of anime localizer and publisher Sentai Filmworks. Sentai Filmworks made a lot of fans of the original game pretty happy this weekend when they announced that they had re-hired all of the voice actors from the game’s original, pretty good localization, [...]

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Buy 2 Get 1 Free Sales at Amazon, Target

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Handheld, Nintendo DS/3DS, Playstation 3, PSP / Vita, Wii, Xbox 360 On: 28 Mar

Feel like buying a game this week? Well, why buy one game when you can get three! Both Amazon and Target are running a sale this week that should make frugal gamers (read: broke-ass bastards) very happy.

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Etrian Odyssey 4′s Current Details

Posted By: Rian Quenlin In: Gaming News, Nintendo DS/3DS On: 25 Mar

Etrian Odyssey, the bastard-hard, first-person dungeon crawler has gotten good reception on the first three games for putting emphasis on gameplay and making it a challenging but balanced game. A fourth one is in the works for the 3DS.

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