Atlus has launched a new teaser website called soul-hackers.jp with a countdown that will end on February 21 at 20:00 JST (19:00 MYT). A Twitter account for the same website has also been made.

The website has a simple black background with the loading text:

“Hello HUMAN
We want to collect your information
Checking device compatibility
> Notice: Please, do NOT take your hands off the device
> Call “Soul Hack”
> Sequence start”

The website also has the demon icon that was recurringly used in the early Shin Megami Tensei games.

‘Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner Soul Hackers’ was the second entry in the Shin Megami Tensei Devil Summoner spin-off series. The central focus of this series was that the games would feature SMT-style turn-based monster-collecting gameplay but take place in a modern setting as opposed to the apocalyptic setting of the mainline series.

Later Devil Summoner games would center on the character Raidou Kuzunoha and be set in Taisho era Japan with an action RPG battle system.

When Soul Hackers was originally released in 1997 for the Sega Saturn, however, it would not be released outside of Japan until 2013 when the game was ported to the Nintendo 3DS.

Will this new Atlus countdown lead to another port of Soul Hackers, or possibly even a sequel (although it could always be something less substantial)? We’ll have to wait for next Monday, the 21st of February to find out.