April 21, 2009
Atlus Online Launches Portal;
Invites Fans to Help Shape It
It’s alive! Online gaming and anime
fans can now access and participate in the first phase of Atlus Online’s portal,
a daily destination for community-focused gaming and interactive entertainment.
The portal will be dedicated to user-driven, high-quality content, with an
emphasis on online games and anime, and is intended to be a hub for members to
share their passions, meet new friends, and experience numerous forms of unique
digital media. Staying true to Atlus Online’s commitment, users are encouraged
to contribute to the portal’s growth and development.
“Atlus Online is excited to roll out
the first phase of the portal and to invite fans from all over the world to take
part in its continued evolution,” says Tyler Kim, Head of the Online Division,
Atlus U.S.A., Inc . “We designed this unique portal so that our community
members could be the driving force behind what direction it takes. From
user-generated artwork and opinion forums to mini-games and contests, all
continually evolving, the Atlus Online portal is a truly dynamic, engaging, and
organic site.”
Kicking off the first of several
major updates, today’s Atlus Online portal launch opens up access to a number of
initial offerings and activities, with more content to be added regularly. In
addition to creating game accounts and jumping into highly interactive forums
and polls, members can build full profiles to give a personal context to their
online contributions. One unique feature available to portal members is the
Oekaki Wall, which provides a collaborative forum for creating artwork. One
person may initiate a design, while another can add shading, and so on, for
limitless iterations from a single member’s work. A variety of flash-based
mini-games and features have already been slated to appear, following the summer
launch of Neo Steam: The Shattered Continent, a free-to-play, massively
multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG).
In the coming months, Atlus Online
will unveil additional phases of its portal, continuing to advance the offerings
available. Gamers and anime fans looking for more information about Atlus
Online’s portal can visit
http://www.atlusonline.com.
