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Pokémon BDSP players are holding random online battles through unified password
Pokémon BDSP players are holding random online battles with a specific ruleset through a unified password (6350 4649). Pokémon BDSP doesn’t have official random online matchmaking.
BlazBlue Centralfiction and BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle to support rollback netcode in 2022
BlazBlue Centralfiction and BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle to support rollback netcode in 2022. The “Rollback Public Test” for BBCF will begin on Steam December 6. It will be open to all owners of the Steam version.
Yakuza’s Baka Mitai sung by students in Sweden. Sega and Kiryu’s voice actor react
Yakuza’s Baka Mitai (aka Dame Da Ne) sung by students in Sweden, surprising a Japanese teacher working there. Sega and Kiryu’s voice actor reacted to the video as well.
KaraCreate, a Japanese-style voxel & pixel art RPG, is coming to Steam
KaraCreate, a Japanese-style voxel & pixel art RPG, is coming to Steam. Create and battle soul infused mechanical creatures called Karakuri.
FFXIV: Endwalker’s release brings increased traffic to spoiler blocking service in Japan
FFXIV: Endwalker’s release brings increased traffic to Japanese spoiler blocking service fusetter, a service that lets users post symbols in place of characters and longer bits of text into Twitter.
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Attack on Titan voice actor Yuki Kaji releases official voice synthesizer to counter people feeding his voice to AI without permission
Top Japanese voice actor Yuki Kaji has crowdfunded and released official synthesized voices to tackle unauthorized generative AI use.
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
Pokémon Red and Green are no longer the top selling Pokémon games in Japan
Nintendo reveals that the highest selling Pokémon game generation in Japan has changed for the first time in 28 years.