While Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 doesn’t have any playable card games (at least, not yet), the turn-based JRPGs that inspired it certainly do. Upon travelling to the Gestral Village, you may run into ...

An unofficial Nintendo-themed dating app called Smash Together apparently got a cease-and-desist letter from Nintendo, only one day before officially entering open beta. Smash Together was supposed to ...

Two British tourists in Japan, a 30-year-old man and 29-year-old woman, were rescued after attempting to climb Mount Yōtei, a 1,898-meter mountain in Hokkaido and the namesake of the upcoming ...

Responding to fan requests for an anime adaptation on X, Kodaka says he would be more than happy to animate the series. Since The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy has so many narrative options, ...

Japanese mobile game developer KLab, known for Bleach: Brave Souls and Captain Tsubasa: Dream Team, announced on May 15 that it will be asking around 100 employees to accept voluntary redundancy to ...

Akihiro Hino, CEO and president of Ni no Kuni and Professor Layton series developer Level-5, recently spoke about the growing presence of generative AI in game development – suggesting that around 80 ...

Suikoden IP Producer Rui Naito shared more details about the upcoming Suikoden II anime adaptation during the Suikoden Live Broadcast last May 15, 2025. As Konami Animation wants to fully depict the ...

Bandai Namco Holdings is changing how it pays its executives, according to an announcement published on May 8. The revamped system will make executives’ salaries more dependent on how well they ...

Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii did a lot of things the Yakuza series has never done before – including maritime adventures and full-on naval ship battles. When designing the pirate spin-off’s ...

CD Projekt Red Japan recently held a demo event for the press where I got to play the Nintendo Switch 2 version of Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition. People have been eager to compare the Switch 2’s ...

Automaton West writer. Zoto has been playing video games for 30+ years now but has only recently come to grips with PC gaming. When he isn't playing video games, he watches romance anime and gets mad ...

Japanese game and system development company Infinite Loop published “Don’t put poop in your test strings” (テスト文字列に「うんこ」と入れるな) in 2021. The comically titled manual is used for educating the new ...