Brace yourselves, J-RPG fans, because the Dark Hour is almost upon us once again: the first movie based on Atlus’ Persona 3 will be out in Japan before the end of the year.
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 …
Corpse Party was definitely one of last year’s most underrated games: you’d never expect a game featuring cute schoolgirls and simple 2D graphics to be scary, but Corpse Party surprised a lot of people with just how creepy it could be. Despite being a bit of …
Yesterday Konami celebrated Metal Gear’s 25th Anniversary. Today, Square-Enix gets to celebrate the quater-centennial of their own flagship franchise. Square is notorious for using any reason they can to re-release old games, but this time it kind of makes sense: for FF’s big 25th birthday, they’re …
Sure, Sega may be in a dire financial situation right now, but it doesn’t seem like they’re letting their cash flow problems get in the way of the business of making games (at least in Japan, anyway.) Sega recently filed several new trademarks in their home …
The Playstation Vita doesn’t have a UMD drive (thank god,) but it is still technically backwards compatible with PSP games: most PSP games downloaded via the PSN Store are fully playable on Sony’s shiny new handheld. In Japan, PSP owners can register their UMD games with …
Sony’s Playstation Vita will hit American shores in less than a month, and expectations are understandably high for the newest handheld powerhouse. While the Vita received a strangely cold reception when it launched in Japan over a month ago, the system still tops many gamers’ most …
While American sales analysts only reveal sales figures once a month, Japanese retailers reveal their sales figures on a weekly basis. So who won and lost in Japan’s games market this week? Well, let’s just say it was a bad week for Sony and a very …
With the PSP market all but dead in every territory except for Japan, gamers in the West have sadly missed out on some of the system’s last great games. Due to low sales and high piracy, publishers are hesitant to bring over more recent PSP hits …
The Magical Girl series, which takes the typical bright and cheerful image conjured by Magical Girl anime like Cardcaptor Sakura and Cyberteam in Akihabara and turns it into a dark and brutal deconstruction of the genre, is getting a PSP game based on the anime.
Nippon Ichi, known for series like Disgaea and Makai Kingdom, has a handful of PSP exclusives on their roster. Spencer of Siliconera asked the president of Nippon Ichi Software Souhei Niikawa what he thinks about PSP games being remastered for the PS3.
