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Like a Dragon’s programmers talk about the struggles involved in making game-breaking mechanics like Kiryu’s Dragon Resurgence

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Interview: Suda51 on the resurrection of Shadows of the Damned, his undying love for Zelda, and getting more directly involved in game development

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The Steam Deck has seen widespread success, but it’s not stopping there. We ask Valve about the Steam Deck’s challenges and future goals

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The secret behind Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! feat. Hatsune Miku’s super expressive animations. We asked the devs how Live2D makes it happen

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Led by Japanese industry veterans, studio GPTRACK50 uses an unusual development style its members have “always wanted to try out”

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Interview: From abilities that transcend human understanding to fully 3D scenes that left no room for error, Master Detective Archives: RAIN CODE involved challenges incomparably bigger than Danganronpa

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Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth’s Sicko Snap was created to solve a very real problem during development. Series director and lead planner talk about the behind-the-scenes of Yakuza content-making

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Like a Dragon’s programmers talk about the struggles involved in making game-breaking mechanics like Kiryu’s Dragon Resurgence

Interviews

Interview: Suda51 on the resurrection of Shadows of the Damned, his undying love for Zelda, and getting more directly involved in game development

Interviews

The Steam Deck has seen widespread success, but it’s not stopping there. We ask Valve about the Steam Deck’s challenges and future goals

Interviews, PR

The secret behind Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! feat. Hatsune Miku’s super expressive animations. We asked the devs how Live2D makes it happen

Interviews

Led by Japanese industry veterans, studio GPTRACK50 uses an unusual development style its members have “always wanted to try out”

Interviews

Interview: From abilities that transcend human understanding to fully 3D scenes that left no room for error, Master Detective Archives: RAIN CODE involved challenges incomparably bigger than Danganronpa

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Some Denuvo enabled games faced an outage over the weekend, possibly due to Denuvo’s network failure

Some Denuvo enabled games faced an outage over the weekend, possibly due to Denuvo’s network failure. Affected titles include Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Planet Zoo, Back 4 Blood, Resident Evil Village, Persona 4 Golden, and Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Hinokami Chronicles.

Sayoko Narita

2021-11-08 19:45

Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ Sasha sees immediate popularity, being sold for 35 million bells

Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ Sasha and Shino see immediate popularity. Sasha is being sold for 35 million bells, Shino for 57.5 million on Nookazon. Their amiibo cards are being resold at a high price as well.

Yuki Kurosawa

2021-11-08 16:08