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Interview: Dragon Ball Sparking! ZERO is less about balance and more about feeling as overpowered as you should playing Gogeta
Dragon Ball Sparking! ZERO producer Jun Furutani explains how the game takes the legendary Budokai Tenkaichi series to new heights
PS5 is teaching AI how to play games like a human to automate testing
Sony’s PS5 quality assurance team is using imitation machine learning to make an AI model that can play games like a human.
Japan’s game market grew steadily in 2023, with the PC game market expanding by 25%
Japan’s game market experienced steady growth in 2023, with PC game sales and console sales rising (particularly the PS5 and Nintendo Switch)
Snowbreak: Containment Zone’s newest update was too sexy for Google Play, causing delays
Snowbreak: Containment Zone encountered issues getting its latest update on Google’s app store due to an “inappropriate” promotional image.
Nintendo had its own internal “social media” to streamline the massive workload during Tears of the Kingdom’s development
Nintendo sheds light on internal infrastructure used for the development of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.
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Yaranaika meme’s source manga Kuso Miso Technique banned in Japan by Amazon
Kuso Miso Technique, the manga that inspired the immortal Yaranaika meme and recently crowdfunded an OVA adaptation, has been banned from Amazon in Japan.
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Learn Japanese by taking photos in this cozy new game (Updated)
Shashingo: Learn Japanese with Photography is a fun new language learning game that helps you learn everyday Japanese by taking photos.
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Nintendo and The Pokémon Company file lawsuit against PocketPair’s Palworld
A patent infringement lawsuit has been filed against Palworld dev PocketPair by Nintendo and The Pokémon Company.