It looks like Atlus USA is preparing more love for the PlayStation Portable with the port of Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 Portable. One of the best rated RPG games on the PlayStation 2 is coming to the handheld on July 6, 2010 with improvements and additions that are going to push possible gameplay to over 100 hours.

Some revealed improvements are the addition of Skill Cards, direct control of team members in battle, five difficulty settings, and part-time jobs. Along with upgraded game enhancements like menu shortcuts, short load times, and now the choice to choose the main character’s sex changes the social dynamics of the game.

Check inside for the first trailer and screens, along with a massive box art.

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Come March 23, 2010 most fans of the Shin Megami Tensei series will be playing the new title Strange Journey. Included in the retail release is not only the Nintendo DS cartridge, but also the soundtrack with every launch copy.

Along with new screens, Lead Editor for Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey, Nich Maragos published a production diary highlighting the localization of the title. Be sure to read through it here.

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A tiny and quiet announcement (only two sentences!) on December 30, 2008 at Aeria Game’s website revealed that microtransaction-based MMORPG Shin Megami Tensei: Imagine has shifted to open beta. All you need to do is register an account, install the game, and join the wonderful (so far) community.

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The Shin Megami Tensei series developer, Atlus, is living in the past. Persona 4, which is due Dec. 9^th, 2008, will be released for PS2. I wish that was a typo, but it’s not. It was released July 10^th in Japan, so it’s official. However, with the success of Persona 3 as one of the best ‘final’ games to be released for the PS2, it almost seems natural that Persona 4 will follow suit.

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