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Persona 4 Arena: Official Design Works Now Comes In English

Earlier this week, Luke Plunkett celebrated the work of Atlus art director Shigenori Soejima, the man behind eye-catching style of the Persona series. He recommended Soejima’s art book, available for shipping in 1-3 months from Amazon — just in time for the English release of Persona 4 Arena: Official Design Works from UDON. Let’s take a peek inside.


This Persona 4 Arena Figure Forges A Bond That Cannot Be Broken

I don’t own too many video game figures. Thanks to my newfound fascination with Persona, that may have to change. For example: I would gladly put this garage kit figure of Elizabeth and her persona Thanatos pretty much anywhere in my house.


You Want Guns? She’s Got Guns. Plastic Guns

Aigis (Aegis in Japan) from Persona is getting a new posable figure this December. It’s for Persona 4 Arena, and if you don’t like the colour variation, sit tight. In January 2013, another colour variation will hit — it’s a “Famitsu original colour version”. Famitsu is a Japanese game magazine.


Persona 4 Arena: The Kotaku Review

I’d imagine the Venn diagram comparing fighting game players to Japanese role-playing game fans doesn’t have much overlap. These are two wildly disparate genres. One caters to the competitive, requiring quick reflexes and the ability to perform lengthy, timing-intensive strings of input commands quickly and strategically. The other satiates the story-hungry gamer, asking only that they maintain a healthy working relationship with one or two important buttons and that they not doze off during lengthy cut scenes.


Fighting Game Revisions Made Him Neurotic

In today’s episode of Speak Up on Kotaku, because folks are spending more time there than in Speak Up, commenter MrGlider explains how the fear of new versions of new fighting games has him frozen in fear.


Persona 4 Arena Is Region-Locked Because The US Dollar Is Weak Against The Yen

Many did a double-take when Atlus confirmed Persona 4 Arena is region-locked on the PlayStation 3 — that means, only Japanese consoles may play the Japanese version; US consoles can only play a US version. It’s the first time since the PS3′s release in 2006 a game has featured complete region-locking. (The Xbox 360 version also will be region-locked.)


Meet The First Ever Region-Locked PS3 Game

The upcoming PS3 and Xbox 360 release of fighting game Persona 4 Arena is, in North America at least, taking the rare and terrible move of being completely region-locked.


Region-Locked Persona Fighter Has 30 To 40 Hours Of Story Mode

First, the good news: fighting game Persona 4: Arena has between 30 to 40 hours of story mode. The bad news? The PS3/Xbox 360 game is apparently region-locked. [Persona 広報 Blog and Atlus]


Memorise The Fighting Moves Of Your Favourite Persona Characters

Perhaps I constructed that headline incorrectly. What it should read is “Memorise the Fighting Moves of My Favourite Persona Character and Five Others”, because no one could ever defeat Chie Satonaka. I guess that would have been too long.


Persona 4 Arena Plays As Good As It Looks, But I Don’t

These sweet new screens of the Arcade Mode in Atlus’ upcoming Persona fighter jogged my memory of the time two weeks ago I would have beat the publisher’s PR master had he not surely cheated terribly.


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