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Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak’s Qurious Crafting failures draw attention on social media
The misery that can result from randomizing your armor with Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak’s Qurious Crafting is drawing attention on social media. Qurious Crafting sometimes makes the armor worse.
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild’s Yiga Clan members discovered to be identity thieves
The disguises worn by The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild’s Yiga Clan members aren’t random, but the members masquerading as other NPCs. A Reddit user and YouTuber has taken pictures in the game of Yiga members in disguise and painstakingly tracked down the NPCs whose identities they’ve stolen.
Tower of Fantasy quickly finds itself with a cheating problem. Cheaters dominate the PvP leaderboards
It looks like the existence of cheaters has quickly been confirmed in Tower of Fantasy, and the development team has announced that they will be taking measure to deal with the issue. One Reddit user has pointed out that cheaters are dominating the game’s leaderboards.
Takoyaki Party Survival tasks you to survive on an all-octopus ball diet
Takoyaki Party Survival is an online multiplayer game where the goal is to survive by eating a nutritionally balanced diet of takoyaki (Japanese octopus balls). Players take part in a “takoyaki party” where they compete to see how many days they can last while only consuming takoyaki of various ingredients.
A new iteration of the Tokyo fantasy game BLACK STELLA is in development
A new title in the BLACK STELLA series is in development. It will be available on iOS and Android and is scheduled to release in the spring of 2023. The title is set to be the successor to BLACK STELLA Iи:FernØ, a mobile game that will soon be ending its service.
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“Let’s meet again in hell” Japanese out-of-print manga archive Manga Library Z begrudgingly shuts down, but swears to be back
After having all of its payment options disabled, Manga Library Z officially shut down on November 26, but J-Comi promises to bring it back.
Indie games
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.
nintendo
Nintendo cracks down on Switch game piracy, seeking information disclosure from Google and Reddit to identify suspects
Nintendo of America hopes to gain information from 8 tech companies to identify individuals involved in Nintendo Switch game piracy.
