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A new Twitter account, "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 of america in 2022. The tweet reads the following (translated from Japanese):

"Dainty to meet you, we are Aion.

Please follow this account.

We are in need of your help.

Soul Hackers Twitter"

A second tweet offers some backstory:

"Aion has predicted the end of the human race.

A sequence to avert annihilation will begin today at 20:00.

Delight observe, and cooperate.

Soul Hackers Twitter"

The link takes viewers to a splash page that morphs into a countdown, hinting at more than data to come in the following days. The splash folio 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 data," but no information collection occurs and is likely just a thematic choice. Information technology is non yet known if this new Soul Hackers entry will make its way to Western markets.

Soul Hackers was originally released in Nippon 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 same start-person dungeon crawler and demon negotiation hallmarks of other SMT games. In Soul Hackers, you lot routinely would explore multi-level dungeons with a political party mixed of humans and demons, exploring a futuristic inter-connected metropolis to put a terminate to a deadly grouping of hackers known every bit the Phantom Society.