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Persona 4 coming to PlayStation 3 on April 8

Role-playing game Persona 4 will be released as a downloadable PlayStation 2 Classic for PlayStation 3 on April 8, publisher Atlus confirmed today.

Atlus will sell the game for $9.99 through the PlayStation Store in North America and South America.

Creator Yu Suzuki shares the story of Shenmue’s development

In a Classic Game Postmortem session at the 2014 Game Developers Conference today, Yu Suzuki — director, producer, designer and writer — spoke about the origins and development of 1999 Sega Dreamcast adventure role-playing game Shenmue.

After joining Sega in 1983, Suzuki focused primarily on creating arcade games, where the ideal experience was three minutes long. After years working on these games he decided he wanted to make a game that didn’t have that kind of time limit. He began researching late 1980s role-playing games, using these as the formula for the game he would build.

"When I see these games I get so nostalgic," Suzuki said through his translator, PlayStation 4 architect and game designer Mark Cerny. "There was a dream here."

I’ve been a huge fan of British electronic music duo The Future Sound of London (FSOL) since the 90s. Their experiments in various musical sub-genres have inspired me for decades, with masterpieces like ISDN, Dead Cities and my personal favorite, Lifeforms.

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