Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Atlus Has a New Moon Rising August 1st *UPDATED*

In the latest issue of Famitsu, Atlus Japan has placed a 2-page spread ad of... a cat!

Okay, so the cat is black and it is totally looking at the moon. And there's some text there too. Roughly translated it says "On the Day Yin and Yang are bound together, a new incident will be revealed." It also gives a URL ...which is conveniently obscured by the lighting on the photo of the page. =(

I think it says www.newmoon.co.jp. Which is, if you go there, a page that says "under construction" in Japanese. Looking at the HTML source code reveals... nothing! (I already checked.)

UPDATE: Thanks to some internet matlock at Gamekyo, the website has been revealed to actually be www.new-moon.tv, however, the end result is the same. The website is definitely made to look like the ad in the magazine, but only says that the site cannot be accessed at this time and to check back later (read: "under construction").

At the bottom of the ad it says that details will be revealed on August 1st, in this magazine (referring to Famitsu).

Is this the Xbox 360/PlayStation 3 RPG in development? Or is it something... else?

We have no idea, but we think there will be a black cat in it. Somewhere. ...Yeah, pretty sure about that.

UPDATE 2: Atlus' new-moon.tv website has updated! It now features the same black cat, and a large purple countdown clock which is currently pointing to next Friday (as the ad mentions). In addition, if you sit and watch the clock for a little while, some of the numbers will sporatically be substituted for a sillhouette of a Megami Tensei demon. (In just the minute and a half I watched it, I could clearly identify Jack Frost, Lamia, Oni, and a few others.) There is little doubt now that the game is indeed a Megami Tensei title of some sort. Past that, though, we're still just guessing.

Check out the ad below.


P.S. If someone has/finds a better quality scan, please let me know in the comments so I can get that up. Thanks. ;)

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