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The Pokémon Company reaches costly settlement in copyright infringement lawsuit over Chinese mobile game  

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Knives Out

Online games like Knives Out, Fortnite, and Identity V were used in 89 crimes involving children in Japan, police report 

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Niconico Douga visa payment suspension lifted

Major Japanese video platform reinstates Visa payment after deleting a lot of its adult content

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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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