All Stories Tagged: Atlus, Page 17

Atlus and Vanillaware announced today that Dragon's Crown is coming on August 6.

While Atlus has released heaps of games with Shin Megami Tensei branding, from Persona to Devil Summoner, there are only four games in the core SMT series. The fourth, snappily titled Shin Megami Tensei IV, will arrive in North America on Nintendo 3DS this summer with a samurai tale, Atlus announced today.

Before Dark Souls became a massive success, From Software released Demon's Souls--its bone-crushingly difficult predecessor. PlayStation Plus members will be able to grab it later today as part of this month's update to the Instant Game Collection.

Stay strong, friend, you only need to face another 28 days of shooting men in the face. Come April 30, you'll get kick, punch, chainwhip, and hammer crabs, elephants, animate statues, and all sorts of weird and wonderful enmies in the face. That is when first-person biffer Zeno Clash II will launch, see, and that is what ACE Team's game is about.

Dragon's Crown was announced alongside the PlayStation Vita at E3 2011 but while Sony's handheld came out long ago, the hand-drawn beat 'em up from Odin Sphere dev Vanillaware has been notably absent. Not for much longer. It'll arrive on PlayStation 3 and Vita this summer, publisher Atlus announced today--a wee bit later than the original launch window of spring 2012.

The first gameplay trailer for ACE Team's first-person biffer Zeno Clash II has punched its way out, putting on an impressive display on new moves and combos, unusual weaponry and characters, and general violence. You'll also catch a few glimpses of co-op, and the new open world and RPG-ish stats.

ACE Team's Zeno Clash had two main strengths: a delightfully weird world and a giddying simulation of beating the merry heck out of man and beast alike with your meaty fists. The announcement of Zeno Clash II focused mostly on the former quality, but some new screenshots give us a pleasing look at the latter. It's our first day properly back at work so we're easily excited by things like pretty pictures, see.

Over 15 years after its debut on Sega Saturn in Japan, Atlus's Shin Megami Tensei spin-off RPG Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers is due to finally arrive in North America in the form of a Nintendo 3DS revamp. Soul Hackers hit Saturn in 1997 then PSone in 1999 but never officially launched outside Japan. The revamp is due in spring 2013.

Trine 2 developer Frozenbyte has complimented Nintendo's new guidelines for developers, including the ability to set prices, no cost for basic updates or downloadable content, the ability to put games on sale.

Persona 4 Golden is no mere port of the fine PS2 RPG, no no no. The Vita edition comes bristling with all manner of shiny new additions and improvements. A new trailer shows off some of the extras, and has some delightfully cheery music to lift your spirits on a chilly autumn morning.