Upcoming Switch game is played by shaking a Joy-Con with your butt
Ketsu Battler is an upcoming Japanese fighting game that has the player grip a Joy-Con with their butt to control the character.
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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.
Metaphor: ReFantazio was initially supposed to be a conventional Tolkien-inspired high fantasy, but the team couldn’t “get into it”
Metaphor ReFantazio director Katsura Hashino talks about the game's early worldbuilding concepts and why they were scrapped.
Dynasty Warriors: Origins’ devs aimed to put “as many enemies as the PS5 could handle” on-screen
Dynasty Warriors: Origins' producer talks about the process of populating the game's screen with "as many enemies as the PS5 could handle."
The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy will add something Danganronpa fans have always asked for – control over who dies
Kazutaka Kodaka talks about an aspect of The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy that was inspired by player feedback about Danganronpa.
Japanese game industry hit by decline in hiring, according to HR company
Silicon Studio has reported a significant drop in their HR business, owed to a decline in job offerings from Japanese game developers.
With development costs rising, we need to make games based on user feedback, not numbers and data from the past, says NEXON Games executive
NEXON Games CEO Yong-hyun Park talks about the company's policy of prioritizing user feedback over data when greenlighting projects.
If you play the three Dragon Quest HD-2D remakes in chronological order, there will be a new “surprise” at the end, according to Yuji Horii
Yuji Horii hints at additional "surprise" elements at the end of the upcoming Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake.
The raging success of Fitness Boxing has pushed Imagineer to make a comeback in console games
Imagineer CEO Kazunori Sumioka talks about the positive impetus the company received from the success of the Fitness Boxing series.
Nintendo and other Japanese game company stocks on the rise after Saudi Arabia’s PIF considers increasing stakes
Recent comments by Saudi Arabian Prince Faisal bin Bandar bin Sultan Al-Saud have given a boost to Japanese video game companies’ stocks.
Sega avoided gacha and pay-to-win mechanics in Sonic Rumble because they know overseas players don’t like them
Sonic Rumble's developers Makoto Tase and Takashi Iizuka talk about the upcoming party game's monetization model.
Monolith Soft is working on an in-house game engine that builds upon the Xenoblade engine for use in other titles
Monolith Soft COO and lead engineer talk about the developer's efforts to introduce new technology, including an expanded Xenoblade engine.
(Update) Former Team Ninja leader Tomonobu Itagaki’s game studio Itagaki Games quietly shuts down
Tomonobu Itagaki's game studio Itagaki Games has shut down silently four years after its establishment, having made no game announcements.