Overlord

Anime fans encouraged to resume “normal fan activities” after three people got arrested for running an anime spoiler website 

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Eternal Palace Sakura Japanese ninja cat girl game

Eternal Palace Sakura to bring stylish sword-wielding cat-girl action with jiggle physics 

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Link in The Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom

Legend of Zelda devs tried to make Link talk for the first time in Echoes of Wisdom, but it felt too wrong 

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Death Stranding hand logo

Hideo Kojima confirms origin of Death Stranding hand logo amidst 5th-anniversary promotions 

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Super Nintendo World Japan Shigeru Miyamoto and Donkey Kong pose

Nintendo to open new Donkey Kong Country area at Super Nintendo World in Japan and the USA 

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Hideaki Itsuno

Devil May Cry 5 and Dragon’s Dogma 2 director Hideaki Itsuno will make original AAA action games at new LightSpeed Japan Studio 

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Steam Deck

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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Melonbooks Japanese manga store payment processor issue

Japanese manga store Melonbooks offers customers discount for using AMEX and JCB credit cards to counter issues with international payment processors 

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Nagoshi Studio

Yakuza creator says his new game will be an action adventure with a “rather high age rating” and complex game system 

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Astro Bot Sony PS5 playerbase expansion

Astro Bot has significantly widened the PS5 playerbase, according to Sony 

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Black Myth Wukong

Sony game sector sees 184% increase in operating profit thanks to improved PS5 profitability and increased sales of third-party games like Black Myth: Wukong 

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Palworld

Palworld tops PS5 download rankings in Japan 

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