Atlus USA’s website for Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey is now online. SJ marks the series’ Nintendo DS debut and according to the website is slated for a March 23rd release.

Mark your calenders and cancel all engagements!!

Included are a handful of character bios, as well as some background info on the gameplay and general setting, and some series history.

Much like the old Super Famicom Shin Megaten games, Strange Journey consists primarily of immense first person dungeons. There will also be demon recruitment, endings that vary based on alignment, and cryptic white-haired characters who may or may not be fallen angels in disguise.

Don’t forget to visit www.atlus.com/strangejourney/ »

En uno de los correos mas recientes de “Atlus Faithful”, Atlus ha anunciado que el próximo re-make de Persona para el PSP, será lanzado el 22 de Septiembre de este mismo año y vendrá empacado con toda la banda sonora del juego, si, toda la banda sonora porque son 2 CDs que contienen TODA la música del juego, no el lado A o lado B como fue el caso de Persona 4.

Así que marquen sus calendarios, ahorren un poco de dinero y asegúrense de hacer el pre-order de su copia, cuando los links estén habilitados, para recibir este asombroso soundtrack empacado en una caja especial con el juego.

Atlus USA ha lanzado la web oficial de Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor. El sitio incluye una lista de cosas por las cuales debemos emocionarnos, incluyendo un video in-game, capturas de pantalla e información de los caracteres e historia. Actualmente solo tres caracters y un trozo de la historia ha sido publicada, pero solo con ver estos videos debería de ser suficiente para tener emocionado a cualquier fan de Megaten.

Desearía que mi primo fuera así de cool

El sitio promete actualizaciones como fondos de pantalla, avatares (gratuitos), y por supuesto, más información sobre la historia y los once personajes principales que habitan el mundo del juego, así que asegúrate de chequearlo regularmente.

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Things have been pretty quiet in the Megaten world as of late. Even in terms of general related Atlus news there’s not been too much to say.

Gamasutra has an interesting article up about Game Developer’s Top 20 Publishers. The list is generally dominated by the top players every one would name, such as EA, Nintendo and Activision. Of particular interest, however, is Atlus USA’s appearance in spot 18.

Pretty nice.

Hey everyone. Just writing to inform you that our interview with Atlus for Persona 3 is posted on the site. There’s some discussion of FES, older SMT releases, the Japanese rating versus the US’s M rating and so forth.

Some of the questions were crafted before anyone at this site got to actually play the game (not to mention those who submitted questions in our forum). In those cases, anyone who has played the title will know how those components work. They’re being left in the interview for completion’s sake, but also because there is some interesting insight at times.

Super big thanks to both Aram and Yu at Atlus for taking the time to help us out, despite the headaches of the delay, E3 and other releases in the pipeline.

I noticed today that the official Atlus USA website has been redesigned. Kind of a surprise.  Head on over and check it out.