VERACITY IN GAMING
VERACITY IN GAMING
With a playable demo released for TGS 2025, ANANTA has gained much hype in Japan, though some gamers are concerned about its future.
Chinese developer NetEase's upcoming urban open-world RPG ANANTA is not going to be a character gacha game, they confirm.
While some industry veterans may say that Japanese narrative adventure games (commonly known as visual novels in the West) have reached a bit of a slump, that doesn’t mean the genre doesn’t have its hits anymore. Recently, AUTOMATON brought together…
Automaton interviewed the director and producer of Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma about their user-friendly approach to development.
Creator of Dragon Quest debunks popular Japanese fan theory that states Orgodemir's true identity in DQ7 is actually Kiefer.
Real Focus Synergy is a software designed to make manual work less boring - and it was made using advice from Fortnite developers.
Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma director Shiro Maekawa and producer Hisashi Fujii tell us about the future they envision for the series.
PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch or mobile? We asked more than 10,000 Japanese gamers about their preferred gaming platform.
Final Fantasy composer talks about the current state of game music, commenting on how composers nowadays have less creative freedom.
In a recent online essay, Death Stranding and Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima shared an episode about a job offer that changed his life.
Gundam GQuuuuuuX director shares he didn't follow a strict plan during the anime's production, as he worked with a "go-with-a-flow" approach.
Final Fantasy Tactics - The Ivalice Chronicles devs share the story of how they implemented character color customization into the game.