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A new Twitter business relationship, "soul-hackers.jp," posted a tweet teasing a new Soul Hackers game. This tweet comes as a surprise, as Soul Hackers was last released in united states in 2022. The tweet reads the following (translated from Japanese):

"Nice to meet you, we are Aion.

Please follow this account.

Nosotros are in need of your help.

Soul Hackers Twitter"

A second tweet offers some backstory:

"Aion has predicted the end of the homo race.

A sequence to avert anything will begin today at xx:00.

Please observe, and cooperate.

Soul Hackers Twitter"

The link takes viewers to a splash page that morphs into a countdown, hinting at more data to come in the post-obit days. The splash page features a symbol that Shin Megami Tensei fans volition recognize immediately, the demon sprite icon that appears in every game. The website claims to want to "collect your information," but no data collection occurs and is likely just a thematic choice. It is not all the same known if this new Soul Hackers entry will brand its mode to Western markets.

Soul Hackers was originally released in Nihon on the Sega Saturn in 1997 and on PlayStation in 1999. The game was re-released on the Nintendo 3DS in 2022. The game, a spin-off of the Megami Tensei franchise, features the aforementioned first-person dungeon crawler and demon negotiation hallmarks of other SMT games. In Soul Hackers, you routinely would explore multi-level dungeons with a political party mixed of humans and demons, exploring a futuristic inter-connected metropolis to put a stop to a mortiferous group of hackers known every bit the Phantom Society.