{"id":9657,"date":"2022-02-17T13:53:25","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T04:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=9657"},"modified":"2022-02-17T13:53:26","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T04:53:26","slug":"20220217-9657","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20220217-9657\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlus opens Soul Hackers countdown website with a timer ending on Feb. 21"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Written by. Ryuki Ishii based on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/articles\/newsjp\/20220217-192455\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">original Japanese article<\/a>&nbsp;(original article&#8217;s publication date: 2022-02-17 13:19<\/em> <em>JST)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Atlus has opened a countdown website at \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/soul-hackers.jp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/soul-hackers.jp<\/a>\u201d with a timer that will end on February 21 at 3 a.m. PST (February 21 at 8 p.m. JST). A Twitter account named \u201csoul-hackers.jp\u201d has also been opened, tweeting out the website URL with the hashtag #soul-hackers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The name Soul Hackers reminds us of the Atlus\u2019 RPG <em>Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers<\/em>, the second game in the <em>Devil Summoner<\/em> series, which is part of the <em>Shin Megami Tensei<\/em> series. The game is set in a technologically advanced Japanese metropolis where characters fight in a virtual world. It came out for the Sega Saturn and PlayStation in the late 90s, and a Nintendo 3DS port was released globally in 2013. There will likely be an announcement related to this work when the timer hits zero.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers: Launch Trailer\" width=\"1160\" height=\"653\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TGV5tNaPbew?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>While the countdown will end on February 21, it seems that something will happen on February 17 at 3 a.m. PST (February 17 at 8 p.m. JST), as the official Twitter account says, \u201cAion has predicted the end of humanity. A sequence to avert annihilation will begin today at 20:00.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">Aion\u306f\u4eba\u985e\u306e\u6ec5\u4ea1\u3092\u4e88\u6e2c\u3057\u307e\u3057\u305f\u3002<br>\u6ec5\u4ea1\u3092\u56de\u907f\u3059\u308b\u305f\u3081\u306e\u30b7\u30fc\u30b1\u30f3\u30b9\u3092\u672c\u65e520\u6642\u306b\u958b\u59cb\u3057\u307e\u3059\u3002<br>\u89b3\u6e2c\u3057\u3001\u5354\u529b\u3092\u304a\u9858\u3044\u3057\u307e\u3059\u3002<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NHmlkxhKEf\">https:\/\/t.co\/NHmlkxhKEf<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%E3%82%BD%E3%82%A6%E3%83%AB%E3%83%8F%E3%83%83%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#\u30bd\u30a6\u30eb\u30cf\u30c3\u30ab\u30fc\u30ba<\/a><\/p>&mdash; \u300e\u30bd\u30a6\u30eb\u30cf\u30c3\u30ab\u30fc\u30ba2\u300f\u516c\u5f0f (@soulhackers_atl) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/soulhackers_atl\/status\/1494159979234103297?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 17, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlus opens Soul Hackers countdown website with a timer ending on Feb. 21, hinting a new announcement regarding Atlus\u2019 RPG Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9659,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-9657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-japan-related-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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