Japanese roguelite Samurai Bringer is coming to Steam, PS4, and Switch in spring 2022. Kill Youkai monsters, horn your samurai skills, and take out Yamata no Orochi, the legendary eight-headed serpent.
Magical Girl vs. mech TPS MaguSphere - Magical Cannon Girls to release in 2022. MaguSphere is a third-person shooter where you play as a magical girl named Houka Hozumi, who can hold a tank gun with just one hand.
Gamebook-style RPG The Use of Life is coming to Steam this spring. The demo version is now available in English. The ending is determined by how you ultimately “use your life.”
The new Kaiji mobile game looks incredibly cheap, and fans are questioning how much of it is intentional. Kaiji Yami no Mokushiroku, a free-to-play mobile game based on the popular manga series Kaiji, has released in Japan on January 20.
Nintendo’s former headquarters is turning into a hotel named Marufukuro and is scheduled to open on April 1. Starting at 100,000 yen (approx. $900) per night.
Japanese indie game publisher PLAYISM has announced the schedule for their online event PLAYISM GAME SHOW 2022. It is scheduled to take place on January 22 at 23:00 PST (January 23 at 16:00 JST).
Monster Hunter Rise has shipped over 8 million units worldwide. The game initially came out for the Nintendo Switch in March of 2021 and shipped 4 million units in its first week.
#SaveApexASIA went trending on Twitter after BAN HAMMER JP Discord server temporarily shut down as an act of protest against EA. BAN HAMMER JP is a community server for Japanese Apex Legends players to report cheaters.
Japanese game developer Curiouspark has released Jack & Detective: Werewolf Game on iOS and Android as a free-to-play app. It’s a social deduction game based on a board game of the same name.
A firefighter in Japan punished after posting video game content on YouTube. The videos were about an online game where multiple players participated as crew members on a vehicle and engaged in a mind game.
Japan remains the country with the most gaming-related tweets 2 years in a row. Colon, a Japanese content creator, is at the top of the “Most Talked About Gaming Creators” list.
Sega has announced that they have opened a new studio in Sapporo, Japan. The new studio (Sega Sapporo Studio) was founded on December 1 to work on software development and debugging operations.
