Japanese gamers’ average gacha spending per user high enough to offset mobile market shrinkage, study shows
Sensor Tower's analysis of the Japanese mobile game market in the past year highlights "exceptionally" high average revenue per user.
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Editor-in-Chief since October 2023.
She grew up playing Duke Nukem and Wolfenstein with her dad, and is now enamored with obscure Japanese video games and internet culture. Currently devoted to growing Automaton West to the size of its Japanese sister-site, while making sure to keep news concise and developer stories deep and stimulating.
Credit card companies’ censorship of video games is thriving on people’s lack of awareness, Japanese politician says
Former Japanese assemblyman offers analysis of the deliberately "invisible" mechanism of censorship by credit card companies.
Super Robot Wars studio’s primary target remains Japan. New boss addresses rebranding, development policy
President of Bandai Namco Forge Digitals (previously B.B. Studio) talks about the company's future, including focus on Super Robot Wars.
Konami’s AI project backfires, Yu-Gi-Oh! videos deleted over unauthorized use of popular actress’ voice
An open-source voice synthesis AI model used by Konami is suspected of being trained on Hibiku Yamamura without her consent.
Japanese gacha RPG has to “correct” possibly all in-game assets released since 2023. App Store blocks updates
Twinkle Star Knights was initially denied an update on Apple's App Store on August 22, but the issue has since escalated.
At Nintendo, “every developer is a director.” If you make excuses, you get removed from the team, veteran says
Former Nintendo veteran Motoi Okamoto talks about the company's "everyone's a director" approach to game development.
Konami’s erasure of P.T. let the indie hit The Exit 8 slip into its place, Hideki Kamiya says
Game designer Hideki Kamiya talks about the huge influence of P.T. on game design and why we shouldn't forget it.
“Some of us practically lived at the office.” Sega veteran devs talk about phased out crunch culture and week-long office sleepovers
"It didn’t really feel like a company, in some ways it felt more like a club activity.”
“We had to make sure you couldn’t run faster than the map could load.” Like a Dragon technical director on the series’ shift to PS3
RGG Studio technical director Yutaka Ito recently shared insights about the development of the Like a Dragon series' first PS3 title.
Nintendo employs surprisingly high ratio of master’s and PhD graduates in Japan, independent research suggests
Game industry blogger Papen found that out of 60 Nintendo employees they looked into, 21 had advanced degrees.
Japanese air purifier makes you better at Valorant, according to study
Pro Valorant players' average damage per round reportedly rose by 18 points with Sharp's Plasmacluster technology.
Former Devil May Cry director Hideaki Itsuno isn’t making his dream games because “they wouldn’t sell”
Instead, Itsuno combines what he likes with what sells.