Japanese users rattled by results of “The top 100 most “pornified” media franchises” ranking 

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Tears of the Kingdom: this new “material” elevates aircraft building to a new level 

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Stop blowing into your Switch game card slots – Nintendo rebukes tradition of Japanese gamers 

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Spindas can have unique spot patterns again in Pokémon HOME with ver. 3.0.1 update 

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City of Kyoto under fire for problematic Pokémon card vending machine in subway station 

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Percentage of Japanese language users at record high on Steam, surpassing even German and French

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Game studio in Japan struggles to find employees as the industry grows stronger 

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After reading Initial D, two Japanese men try to drift but fail and get arrested 

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Viral sand Tetris game Setris was suspended for copyright infringement and reborn under a new name

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Twitter has been so unstable that a top game publisher in Japan has decided to end account binding 

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This fighting game will have an emotional support system for salty players broken in battle

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We asked Craftopia’s developers about the game’s soaring popularity and response to the Seamless World Update 

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