Nintendo Switch 2 chip supply strong enough to ship over 20 million units by March next year
Bloomberg's sources say that working with Samsung will allow Nintendo to ship more than 20 million Switch 2s by March 2026.
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Amber V
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.
Stellar Blade’s director has always wanted to make a game like Yakuza
Stellar Blade director Hyung-tae Kim considers RGG Studio's Like a Dragon series to be "true adult entertainment."
Nintendo Switch store blocks indie dev’s release over “in-game advertising” for including references to previous titles in series
The developer of the 2000s anime inspired platformer series Kokoro Clover has been warned for "advertisting" their own games through parodic commercials.
Square Enix considered ending Final Fantasy 11 in 2024, but player interest was high enough to keep it alive even after 20+ years
According to Final Fantasy 11 producer and director Yoji Fujito, the MMORPG could have ended support or even shut down completely.
This TPS is brutally difficult because its sexy clothes damage system can’t work if players don’t get hit
Scar-Lead Salvation producer Hiroshi Aoki tells us about the wild origin story of Compile Hearts' new hardcore TPS.
Japanese gacha game studio asks 100 full-time employees to quit in large-scale downsizing
KLab currently has a total of 389 employees, meaning that it’s looking to let go of 1/4 of its workforce.
Guilty Gear Strive developer acknowledges data leak, says player information is unaffected
Arc System Works has addressed the massive data breach that resulted in Guilty Gear Strive's source code and unreleased content being leaked.
Tribe Nine to end services on November 27
Akatsuki Games has announced Tribe Nine's discontinuation less than three months after its initial launch.
Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii devs didn’t make an open-world sea to spare players from long and uneventful travel
Although development started out with the idea of one big open-world map, this was abandoned in favor of user experience.
The open-world survival game Omega Crafter turns programming into gameplay, but it lets you code as much or as little as you want to
Omega Crafter is leaving early access with a big update that expands on its programming-based gameplay. We ask the devs about it.
Japan’s Toei denies signing deal for samurai movie about Yasuke. Nothing decided yet
Toei executive vice president Koichi Wada has debunked reports about a Yasuke movie being production, calling it "one of several proposals."
Capcom expects next year’s profits to be carried by past releases, with sales of new games declining
Capcom's forecasts suggest that the company expects another year of record-high revenue and profits, but sales of new games to decline.