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Preview: Yggdra Union (PSP)

I had the chance recently to spend some time with Yggdra Union, a colorful fantasy strategy-RPG from Atlus and Sting Entertainment. The game, a quirky, card-based, semi-real-time tactical JRPG, is actually a PSP remake of a GBA title which was released in 2006. I never had the opportunity to try the original, but according to [...]

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Just the Links, Ma’am: 6.20.08

Your daily smörgåsbord of the very best gaming has to offer. Enthusiast: Guitar Hero: World Tour details revealed at (IGN) LittleBigPlanet will have some semblance of story, feature user-policing for adult content (PS3 Fanboy) “On September 2nd, shovel talks. You dig. Monsters die,” and Atlus sets you to work building dungeons in Master of the Monster Lair for Nintendo [...]

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Atlus Brings Another SRPG to 360, Now With Giant Freaking Robots

Atlus has just announced that they are releasing Zoids Assault on the Xbox 360, a new strategy-RPG based on Tomy’s line of animal-shaped giant robots. Between Nazi werewolves, medieval demons, and now huge metal tigers, Atlus pretty much has the SRPG spectrum covered at this point.

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Officially Sponsored RPG Crossover Fanfiction: Cross Edge

With the tremendous success of Kingdom Hearts having proved that you can toss iconic characters in a blender no matter how disparate their backgrounds, we’re actually surprised no one has thought of doing it on a smaller scale until now. Or perhaps we should say larger — a new RPG revealed in this week’s [...]

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Atlus Announces Trauma Center: Under the Knife 2

Does anyone remember Life & Death? My fond memories of mouse-driven surgery in glorious Macintosh black-and-white were what drew me to the original Trauma Center for the DS, but from there, the game more than stood on its own.

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Final Fantasy IV, Trauma Center 2 Headed to Nintendo DS — Chrono Trigger To Follow?

DS Fanboy has been flipping through the pages of the latest Nintendo Power, and discovered mounds of portable goodness therein. Top billing, of course, goes to the magazine’s 10-page cover story on the Final Fantasy IV remake for DS.

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Persona 4 Detailed in Famitsu

Famitsu is just full of goodies this week, reports Kotaku. Just three hours after they bring news of Japan’s latest underhanded attempt to entice gamers to their shores, we have our first glimpses of Persona 4:

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