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Wizardry developer receives 500-million-yen investment from the Japanese government
Wizardry developer Drecom received a 500-million-yen “risk money” investment from Japan’s Bank of Development.
Like a Dragon’s director and lead planner talk about the weirdest content they’ve put into the series and how they cleverly coaxed the team into agreeing
Sega’s Like a Dragon series features so many bizarre minigames and fun side content. But how do the planning team heads choose which ideas make it into the game? We found out.
Blue Protocol shutdown: Japanese users lament how the anime MMORPG’s potential was a wasted opportunity
Blue Protocol spent 8 years in development but will end up running for less than 2 years, remaining a Japan exclusive.
Chinese publishers such as NetEase might be abandoning Japanese developers after years of investment
Major Chinese publishers such as NetEase and Tencent are backing out from the Japanese market after years of investment yielded few hits.
Gundam Breaker 4 shoots up the Steam charts upon release, praised as the Gunpla mech action series’ return to form
Gundam Breaker 4, Bandai Namco’s latest Gunpla building and battling game, seems to be off to a strong start.
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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.
