Shibuya Scramble Stories gameplay

Japanese $340k crowdfunded visual novel is still missing more than half its funds after issues with platform, but devs confirm that development “will absolutely not be halted”

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Square Enix takes action against Final Fantasy 14 video content creator over harassment of employees following shutdown of defamatory news blog

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Random merch survey

Almost 90% of Japanese people dislike random and “blind bag” merch, but the majority still buys it, large-scale survey shows 

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NieR Reincarnation

“Making it technically work and making it actually enjoyable as a game are different things.” Japanese devs weigh in on why retrofitting live-service games with offline support is harder than gamers think 

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Bunny Garden 2 debuts as Japan’s number one top-selling game on both Steam and Switch

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Unity employees in Korea protest over alleged “underhanded” restructuring tactics 

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Japan’s foreign affairs minister criticizes White House over unauthorized use of Nintendo gameplay footage in Iran war campaign video on X   

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Japanese man gets prison sentence and million-yen fine for writing monetized “spoiler-heavy” summaries of movies and anime

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Kochi Prefecture matchmaking app initiative

A prefecture in Japan will offer single people money to use matchmaking apps 

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Square Enix partners with AI manga translation company to automate typesetting process which takes “3,000 of hours of manual work a year” 

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Disgaea series creator and former NIS CEO lets game companies hire him as a “shared producer” for the cost of a new graduate’s salary 

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Metal Slug devs’ modern revival of forgotten monster-taming RPG Navinosuke will add togglable quest and objective markers to the game. “If we don’t add them, people will get angry”

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