PS5’s steep price a barrier for potential Monster Hunter Wilds players, Capcom president says
Capcom president Haruhiro Tsujimoto also commented on the potential of the Switch 2, the success of which reaffirmed how cost-conscious gamers are.
VERACITY IN GAMING
VERACITY IN GAMING
Carlos "Zoto" Zotomayor
Automaton West writer. Zoto has been playing video games for 30+ years now but has only recently come to grips with PC gaming. When he isn't playing video games, he watches romance anime and gets mad when his best girl never wins.
Danganronpa and The Hundred Line creator was almost arrested in China after police mistakenly thought he was “hosting an unauthorized event”
Kodaka's Chinese fans gathered spontaneously after an unassuming social media post on Weibo revealed his location.
Final Fantasy Tactics – The Ivalice Chronicles dev team had to hunt down original source code from fan sites to create the remaster, director says
Final Fantasy Tactics - The Ivalice Chronicles developers talk about how they ended up losing (and later recovering) the game's source code.
Resident Evil Requiem devs wanted to satisfy their own curiosity about the Racoon City outbreak’s aftermath
"It was like rice I'd left forgotten in the rice cooker for a week."
Namakorium is a Pikmin-like multiplayer game that has you cleaning up the ocean with the cutest sea cucumbers
Namakorium, the cute ocean-themed Pikmin-like multiplayer is set to release in January 2026 for PC (Steam).
Square Enix has 9 live-service mobile games still active after shutting down Dragon Quest of the Stars and Final Fantasy Brave Exvius
Only two are currently running in the West.
Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater updates the original game’s sexy posters with recent photos of the same gravure models
Enhanced versions of the original posters are available in the Legacy Style mode.
Resident Evil Requiem’s swappable perspectives were created to offer a less scary alternative and attract more players
Resident Evil Requiem's third-person perspective will offer players a less terrifying alternative to switch to.
Dave the Diver creator working on three new titles with 60-person studio; plans to expand Dave the Diver into a franchise
Mintrocket CEO Jaeho Hwang talks about his plans to expand the Dave the Diver IP while also developing brand-new titles.
Final Fantasy 14’s Yoshi-P says there’s no real need for new hardware among gamers – people are happy with what’s out there, and buying new tech is expensive
Yoshi-P is optimistic about bringing Final Fantasy 14 to any future consoles, but feels like gamers are content with the PS5, XboX Series X❘S and Switch 2.
Capcom replaces disqualified Street Fighter 6 art contest winning entry with its own art
The original winner was disqualified after Capcom determined they used generative AI.
Illegal Nintendo DS and pirated game bundle mistakenly put up for auction by Japanese prefectural government
The state auctions are a way for local governments to sell off seized goods.