Review: Trine 2 (XBLA)

Review: Trine 2 (XBLA)

Tweet First, take the physics-based puzzles of the LittleBigPlanet series and tighten up the controls to near-perfection. Then, add in three different characters with unique properties and diverse interactions with the environment.  Next, paint the game’s world in bright, vivid colors and add one of...

Release of the Week: Dark Souls (360, PS3)

Release of the Week: Dark Souls (360, PS3)

Tweet In 2009 From Software released the surprise hit Demon’s Souls on the PlayStation 3. Demon’s Souls achieved critical acclaim and quickly sold through its initial printing. In the end it won several Game of the Year awards, became a PlayStation 3 “Greatest Hit” and publisher Atlus...

Evil.JP: The Catherine Conundrum

Evil.JP: The Catherine Conundrum

Tweet Gaming fans all over North America are falling head-over-heels in love with Catherine. Atlus USA just recently announced that the game had the biggest launch of any title in the publisher’s 20 year history, selling over 200,000 copies across both the PlayStation 3 and XBOX 360 platforms during...

Release of the Week: Catherine (360, PS3)

Release of the Week: Catherine (360, PS3)

Tweet There is a lot of talk about the fall of the Japanese gaming industry. What was once a powerhouse of innovation has now come under scrutiny for churning out the same style games that it has for a decade. While there is some truth to that, there is a large segment of Japanese games that the West never...

E3 Hands-on: Catherine (PS3)

E3 Hands-on: Catherine (PS3)

Tweet Love is not over. Catherine is, without a doubt, a very difficult game to describe. It is also, without a doubt, one of the most intriguing games I’ve come across at E3Expo this year. Atlus’s adventure-puzzle-horror hybrid has turned more than a few heads this year, and likely perplexed...

Catherine Set to Haunt The Dreams of North American Gamers This Summer

Catherine Set to Haunt The Dreams of North American Gamers This Summer

Tweet North American Persona fans, rejoice. Atlus has just launched a teaser site for a localized version of its puzzle-horror-dating-sim-hybrid, Catherine.  After recently trolling its fanbase with an official statement regarding there were “no plans” for a North American release of the title,...

Feast Your Eyes on A Few New SMT: Devil Survivor Overclocked Screens

Feast Your Eyes on A Few New SMT: Devil Survivor Overclocked Screens

Tweet With the recently announced 3DS launch lineup a tad lacking for core gamers, it is already time to start looking towards summer releases for the new handheld. Although it is a port of an existing DS game, SMT: Devil Survivor Overclocked looks like the perfect game to pick up if you missed the...

Review: Naruto Shippuden Dragon Blade Chronicles (Wii)

Review: Naruto Shippuden Dragon Blade Chronicles (Wii)

Tweet The Naruto franchise has good games; it may be hard to fathom, but there are a few (with a stress on the word few) great games based on the popular Shonen Jump series. Naruto Shippuden Dragon Blade Chronicles is not one of them. Taking a stab at the character action style of game play, Dragon Blade...

Atlus Announces Patch To Reduce Catherine’s Nightmarish Difficulty

Atlus Announces Patch To Reduce Catherine’s Nightmarish Difficulty

Tweet Japanese gamers have apparently been losing sleep over Catherine.   According to Siliconera, the intense difficulty of the tower-climbing “Nightmare” sections of Atlus’s recent Japan-only outing is generating complaints from players – enough complaints to make the company take...

Atlus Reveals Pre-Order Bonus for Divinity II: The Dragon Knight Saga

Atlus Reveals Pre-Order Bonus for Divinity II: The Dragon Knight Saga

Tweet Just when we thought we knew all there is to know about Atlus and their amazing line up of portable and console games, they surprise us yet again with a North American release of a Xbox 360 game: Divinity II: The Dragon Knight Saga. Set for release on April 12 of this year, Atlus emailed us this...

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