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#datingsims Examining why I play the games I do sometimes yields surprising insight. It's become clear to me that many of the games I like...are kind of dating simulators, despite what the presentation or marketing might suggest. I don't think I'm supposed to admit that, though. To say something like that feels like losing legitimacy as a 'real gamer,' as if that idea even means anything. Worse: to say that seems so stereotypical, because I'm a woman. The genre seems harmless enough as an idea: they're just romance-driven games. Romance is a part of most people's lives, what's the big deal? More »

#anime Japanese video-sharing site NicoNico Douga is well known for having its own unique net culture and memes. One of the most interesting of these is the "tekaki" style of video. "Tekaki," literally meaning "hand-drawn," refers to a type of video where a popular clip —usually an anime or video game opening—is altered to portray a different game or anime altogether. This is done by tracing the original source frame by frame, making the desired alterations, and then reanimating it. More »

#sfw On May 25, Japanese role-playing game Persona is getting a porno parody called Perofella. The suspense must be killing you. More »

#persona Remake Persona 2 Eternal Punishment is coming to the PSP. It follows Persona 2: Innocent Sin and was originally released in 2000. The PSP version is out this week in Japan. More »

#kinect Persona 4: The Golden is getting a Western localization—that we know. But, as Japanese websites have pointed out, it *might* be getting an Xbox 360 version as well as a Kinect version. More »

#fanfare Of the many rhythms common to the Role-Playing Game, "victory music" is one of my favorites. Every time you emerge from battle victorious, a familiar, stirring theme plays. You tally up your experience point gains, count your loot, and level up. More »

#idols Risa Yoshiki sure is busy. When not cosplaying as virtual idol Hatsune Miku in glossy magazines, she's appearing on stage in the recent Persona theatrical play. And when she's not doing that? She's doing other things, like appearing at Japanese baseball games. More »

Money. It’s like a baby in a burning building or a snail in the middle of a busy sidewalk; pretty much everyone wants to save it.

Since nobody wants to be the jerk that steps on that poor, innocent snail, we (the fine people at Atlus) are dropping prices on our PlayStation Store library of PSP system titles, not unlike the PS Vita’s undocumented ability to drop smaller articles of sub-clothing. We’re calling it…

Want to own the complete PSP Persona collection, including Persona 3 Portable, which is tied for the second-best-reviewed PSP game of ALL TIME, according to Gamerankings.com? It is now far more affordable to do so. Also getting a drop in price is the very recent Persona 2: Innocent Sin, a stunning handheld remake of one our company’s most highly anticipated games!

Always been a fan of Sting’s series of Dept Heaven RPG and SRPG genre-benders? Perhaps you’ve always been curious to see how Knights in the Nightmare, with its incredibly novel blend of tactical roleplaying and bullet-hell action, looks and plays? Well, for less than half the price of a new console game, you can own every PSP Dept Heaven game we’ve ever released (which should set you up nicely for the upcoming June release of Gungnir for PSP, the next entry in the acclaimed series).

Besides the aforementioned two collections, there’s a terrific mix of other RPGs and even an action game—Kenka Bancho: Badass Rumble—that are sure to offer something for every type of gamer.

Whether you’re a PSP system owner who has watched Atlus RPGs from afar, your eyes glued to your pervy game-watching binoculars but your wallet unable to open itself for the cause… Or perhaps you like to spend your evenings making sexy time with the two nubs on your new PS Vita… Now you can dive into a library of critically acclaimed Atlus PSP games that delivers hundreds of hours of deep, compelling RPG adventures and promises to thoroughly satisfy your hardcore gamer cravings.

Here, let us move that snail out of the way for you. Step freely, friends… Step freely.

#persona When you think of Japanese role-playing game Persona, you probably don't think of German engineering. More »

#persona This year, famed Persona role-playing game maker Atlus is going to apparently announce a new game. It's more than that, though. Atlus is going to reveal a game that everybody's waiting for "soon". More »

#atlus You probably know Japanese game company Atlus best for its Persona role-playing titles. But in the mid-1990s, Atlus was known for something else entirely: sticker pictures. More »

#persona It's not everyday that you see a Persona 4 figure on Kotaku. It's also not everyday that you see a Persona 4 figure with a crazy crotch. More »

#persona Not because it looks bad. It looks great! But all that flashing, and bright lights, and flashing. Argh! More »

#persona Persona 4 The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena brings the stylish pizazz of Persona to the face-kicking 2D chaos of BlazBlue creators Arc System Works. More »

#persona You've drooled over the gorgeous screenshots, now take a look at the first official trailer for Persona 4: The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena, the welcome marriage of Atlus' role-playing with Arc System Works fighting know-how. More »

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

#toybox 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. More »

#gallery Over the past week, the figure-centric Treasure Festa was held in Tokyo. It was, as they say, a symphony of sculpted plastic. More »

#coverstory 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? More »

#atlus 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. More »

Atlus is currently refreshing PSone RPG Persona 2: Innocent Sin for the PSP. Announced in Japanese mag Famitsu (via Siliconera), the release will be in line with that seen in Persona, adding widescreen visuals, gameplay tweaks and a new animation for the opening (the original movie will also be in there for purists). Shoji Meguro, who was in charge of the Persona remake, will direct this project.

Persona 2 actually released in two parts as Innocent Sin and Eternal Punishment. The latter made it to North America in late 2000, but Innocent Sin has never been officially localized for distribution. We're following up with Atlus to see if it plans on bringing Innocent Sin stateside this time around.

#nintendo 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? More »

#atlus 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. More »

#atlus 　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. More »

#arcade Mysterious. Enigmatic. Mona Lisa might called a lot of things, but cute isn't one of them. Until now. More »

#clips 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. More »

And Australia too.

#ruhroh 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? More »

#persona 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. More »

Atlus' cult classic revival is one part update, one part repair, all parts old-school fun.