From Software
Silicon Studio developed "3D Dot Game Heroes" in just 10 months despite none of the development team having prior experience with PS3 development. The game was actually created as a way to showcase Silicon Studio's middleware technology, and the speed at which development could progress with it. The game was teased by From Software on August 10, 2009 with a teaser site showing a cube and a countdown-timer to August 20, 2009. The game was unveiled before the countdown ended by Japanese gaming magazine "Famitsu", on August 18, 2009. A North American release of the game was confirmed by the Twitter account of Sony Computer Entertainment America which said that the game was "definitely" coming to North America. On November 17, 2009 Atlus confirmed that they would be localizing and publishing the game in North America for a May 11, 2010 release.