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“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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Japan’s biggest “ghost developer” known for working for Atlus and Square Enix sees significant growth in console sector following shift away from mobile games

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Japanese crowdfunding platform that allegedly ran off with more than half of Jiro Ishii’s $340k game budget suddenly becomes inaccessible (Updated)

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Japanese indie adult game developer says local bank blocked their overseas revenue transfers despite legal compliance, citing undisclosed “risks”

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