The Hundred Line Last Defense Academy

The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy demo launches to overwhelming praise, but reviews are amusingly vague as players skirt around spoilers 

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Assassins Creed Shadows

Assassins Creed Shadows: Real-life Japanese shrine officials are “taking action” over Ubisoft’s portrayal of religious site 

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Lost Soul Aside

Lost Soul Aside game director details how Final Fantasy 15, Bayonetta, Ninja Gaiden, and Devil May Cry have influenced the game 

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Guns Undarkness

Persona and Metaphor: ReFantazio composer’s new turn-based JRPG Guns Undarkness to get free demo on February 24 

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Lost Soul Aside

Lost Soul Aside has been in development for 11 years, originally starting as a one-man project, says game director 

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Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

Final Fantasy film that almost ruined Square Enix financially to be re-screened as “a turning point in Japanese CG animation” at film festival 

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Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater

Amidst mass industry layoffs, Konami is raising salaries for the fourth year in a row – “Human resources are the source of our competitiveness” 

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The Hundred Line Last Defense Academy

The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy has a bigger word count than any of Kodaka’s past games, which is making translation into additional languages a challenge 

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Final Fantasy X revival hype

Square Enix posts a single word and it’s enough to get people hyped about Final Fantasy 10 all over again

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Marvel Rivals combat designer Zhiyong

Marvel Rivals updates to happen at the start and middle of each season along with emergency patches, says lead combat designer 

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Pokemon Go co-developer and operator Niantic in talks to sell game business

Pokémon Go developer Niantic reportedly in negotiations to sell games business for $3.5 billion

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Nintendo Taiwan subsidiary

Nintendo establishes new Taiwan subsidiary, raising local players’ expectations for better services

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