In case you haven’t heard, Atlus’ parent corporation, Index Holdings, is going bankrupt following the failure of some shady (possibly illegal) investments. As a result of their bankruptcy, Index has reportedly already started auctioning off their assets, including Atlus. Financial news site Bloomberg Japan is reporting …
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.
Anyone who claims that Japanese RPGs are dead obviously doesn’t have a 3DS, as the genre is alive and well on Nintendo’s latest handheld. Nintendo is even offering a special deal for players who pick up two of this year’s best RPG’s: the company will soon …
Atlus has managed to carve out a profitable niche for itself by producing critically acclaimed RPG’s like Persona and Etrian Odyssey, but now the company may be facing some hard times through no fault of their own. Today, Atlus’ parent corporation, Index Corporation, announced that it …
In an interview with Nico Nico News (translated by Siliconera,) Shin Megami Tensei IV director Kazuyuki Yamai revealed that his latest game was designed to remind people that games can be more than just childish toys or mindless time wasters.
Today’s Nintendo Direct livestream was a big one: in addition to announcing a handful of new games, Nintendo finally gave us some concrete release dates for some of the 3DS’s and Wii U’s biggest titles.
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.
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 …
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 …
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.
