Former Ubisoft Osaka employee dismisses claims about shares plummeting “because of DEI”
Kensuke Shimoda, a former Ubisoft Osaka game designer, has recently addressed rumors about the company's plummeting shares being a result of "devotion to DEI."
VERACITY IN GAMING
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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.
Chilla’s Art’s creepy fishing game UMIGARI coming to Steam on February 4
UMIGARI, a surreal first-person fishing game by horror indie game developer Chilla's Art, is coming to Steam on February 4.
From slipping into unhealthy relationships to playing as a self-debugging game: 5 Japanese psychological horror indie games
Introducing five upcoming or recent Japanese indie games in the psychological genre horror - including hidden gems and much-awaited releases.
Beast of Reincarnation director explains why Japan was the perfect setting for the game
Beast of Reincarnation game director Kota Furushima talks about how he came to choose post-apocalyptic Japan as the story's setting.
Welcome to the Outcast’s Restaurant! series gets restaurant management mobile game
Avex Pictures has released a casual restaurant management sim based on the Welcome to the Outcast's Restaurant! light novel series and anime.
Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii appointed Japanese city’s tourism ambassador after revitalizing its popularity with his 1984 murder mystery
Yuji Horii was appointed Abashiri City’s tourism ambassador, not for his work on Dragon Quest, but for his 1984 murder mystery title The Hokkaido Serial Murder Case.
The story of Yakuza Kiwami 3’s Dark Ties spin-off was based on the Yakuza Online mobile game, according to series producer
Dark Ties, Yakuza Kiwami 3's Mine-centric spin-off game, uses Yakuza Online's story as the basis of its narrative.
Bunny Garden studio’s bizarre soccer sim where uniforms are literally ripped to shreds when using special moves to release on February 12
Fantasista Asuka, Qureate's upcoming soccer sim, is set to release on February 12 for Nintendo Switch and PC (Steam).
“Nobody reads manga anymore.” Veteran manga editor says there are fewer aspiring editors who are truly passionate about the medium
Kazuaki Ishibashi, a manga editor best known for his editing work on Mob Psycho 100, recently spoke out about the state of his profession.
Netflix and MAPPA form strategic partnership to exclusively distribute anime worldwide
Netflix will exclusively and simultaneously stream MAPPA’s current and upcoming anime titles in over 190 countries worldwide.
These are the top 10 Reiwa-era anime you should watch before you die, according to Japanese people
A January 2026 survey ranks top Reiwa-era anime that any anime fan should watch before they die.
Granblue Fantasy Versus to scale down online features
From April 21, Granblue Fantasy Versus's online features will be scaled down, with Ranked Matches being replaced with a Casual Match mode.