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...

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...

Tweet Remember your first Deathmatch experience? I do. It was playing Quake with friends in 1996. Guess what!? Not much has changed in multiplayer gaming since those days. Now, before you cram a bunch of facts and opinions down my throat about how X game changed X issue, hear me out. The basic gist of...

Tweet We want to take a quick moment to congratulate Atlus on brutally beating the living crap out of gamers.  Atlus had only expected to sell a mere 75,000 copies of Demon’s Souls.  Atlus was slightly wrong in this estimate.  Demon’s Souls has sold more than 280,000 copies as of the close of...

Tweet No one was really surprised when Modern Warfare 2 shattered records. Not to mention that Madden will always sell consoles. Even throwing “Mario” on a game title is a license to print money. When in comes to video games, there are certain franchises that that can be banked on with some...

Tweet Game: Demon’s Souls Developer: From Software Publisher: Atlus, USA Platform: PS3 Price: $59.99, or $69.99 for Deluxe Editon Pros: Gorgeous, addictive, depth of play Cons: Scale of difficulty is pitched high Part one of this review can be found here. By now, you’ve seen the videos, the...

Tweet Aram Jabbari posted a second walkthrough video over of Demon’s Souls over on the PlayStation Blog today. It’s primarily about the online functionality and how that ties into the gameplay itself. Check it out and keep drooling for this one of a kind PS3 game, coming October...

Tweet In a rare twist, Atlus has informed us press-types that there are no embargoes on this game. We can talk about it freely, and fully. We could even review it if we wanted to. Boy, I wish. I just got the press-copy yesterday in the mail, so there’s no way I could be through enough of this game...

Tweet Demon’s Souls was originally a Japanese-only release that had many American gamers drooling at the graphics and crying at the slim possibility of a wider release. Thankfully, it was announced that Atlus would publish the title for American gamers. Demon’s Souls is a PlayStation 3...