Something strange is going on with Gaia, the studio Kouji “Cozy” Okada formed after leaving Atlus.

You may know him as the father of MegaTen. Kids these days know Cozy Okada for Monster Hunter: Jewel Summoner and mobile phone games.

The short story is he is making iPhone games.

Last October Nintendo of Japan held a press conference where a slew of first party Wii games not from their core franchises were unveiled. Few of these games were shown in the US press conference which led to concern that Nintendo’s international branches might pass on them.   Now, it looks like Nintendo is planning [...]

Gaia’s second PSP RPG project, Coded Soul, is about to debut in Japan on February 7 and there is little discussion about it. Sony posted an interview with Cozy Okada from Gaia where he talks about monster design and the world. Did you know Coded Soul is set in it's own world? Coded Soul isn't [...]

Remember Monster Kingdom: Jewel Summoner? It was the first game to come out of Cozy Okada’s new studio, Gaia. Coded Soul is their next title and like Monster Kingdom: Jewel Summoner it is also a PSP game. In Coded Soul you play as Jay, who has the ability to capture over a hundred different monsters. [...]

While I appreciate the onslaught of new images regarding FolksSoul, I’d appreciate it if Game Republic came out of the closet and started talking about the gameplay mechanics to FolksSoul! It’s bad enough the art direction of the game has enticed me in its metaphysical dark fantasy world; but to satiate my yearning for more [...]

If you have a master account in Japan or Hong Kong on your Playstation 3, you may want to consider downloading the FolksSoul demo.   GameWatch reports today that Sony has announced plans to release a demo for the action JRPG FolksSoul, slated for a June 21 release in Japan, for download on the Playstation [...]

  Remember the [tenative] box art shown for FolksSoul? Well, it just so happens that now Jeux-France by way of Famitsu magazine has some new scans of FolksSoul and information we already know regarding the story of the game’s main characters Ellen and Keats. The scans also show how one will go about using soul extraction [...]

Ever since Monster Kingdom: Unknown Realms was announced, not much was really said about it aside from the fact that it’s part of the Monster Kingdom universe. After going through a name change to FolksSoul: Ushinawareta Denshou, there still hasn’t been much information regarding this title’s battle system.   The game revolves around two characters, [...]

I’ve been playing around with Atlus upcoming PSP project, Monster Kingdom: Jewel Summoner. It’s an original RPG developed by Gaia a new studio founded by one of the original creators of the Shin Megami Tensei series, Kouji Okada. In a lot of ways Monster Kingdom: Jewel Summoner feels like a SMT game. You collect monsters [...]