The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild players use Bomb Arrows to reach outer space. The technique involves slowly climbing upward off the reactions of a bunch of immediately exploding Bomb Arrows.
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild players use Bomb Arrows to reach outer space. The technique involves slowly climbing upward off the reactions of a bunch of immediately exploding Bomb Arrows.
An odd glitch has been found in Pokémon Legends: Arceus that causes an NPC to swell to an absolutely massive size. As for why it occurs, one theory has to do with the level of detail used to display characters at varying distances.
Pokémon Legends: Arceus players are reporting issues catching Cherrim [update: the issue has been fixed with the latest update 1.0.2].
A Pokémon fan has recreated the classic boardgame Othello with the first generation games using Arbitrary Code Execution and a binary editor.
Pokémon Legends: Arceus players are showing off glitches allowing them to scale steep slopes and slide around at high speeds.
Pokémon Legends: Arceus players are posting “physics gone wild” moments. From Alpha Snorlax flying off to Alpha Stantler circling around the trunk of a tree like a propeller.
Pokémon Legends: Arceus has players talking about how scary Pokémon actually are. But seeing just how threatening Pokémon can really be is part of the appeal of the game.
CRI Middleware opens 3 high-end sound studios in Japan for AAA games and films. The studios are said to be capable of handling the entire sound production process from recording, mixing, mastering to authoring in a single location.
Pokémon Legends: Arceus brought back Pikachu’s original cry sound. Modern Pokémon games uses Ikue Ohtani’s anime voice for Pikachu, but Arceus went for the original digitized cry sound.
There’s now a Japanese version of Wordle called Kotonoha Tango, which is way harder than the original. Kotonoha Tango uses the Japanese Katakana syllabary instead of the English alphabet.
Final Fantasy VII’s Tifa and Italy have been combined into a meme after a pornographic incident at an Italian senate meeting.
COLOPL has announced that they are making a console version of their free-to-play mobile game Alice Gear Aegis. It is scheduled to come out in 2022.
Alice Gear Aegis TV anime adaptation announced. OVA director Hirokazu Hanai and animation studio Nomad team up again.
Japanese game developer PONOS has announced that charges were filed against 19 suspects who allegedly created or purchased tampered game data of The Battle Cats, a free-to-play tower defense game.
The House in Fata Morgana – Dreams of the Revenants Edition – became the Best Switch Game of 2021 on Metacritic. The House in Fata Morgana – Dreams of the Revenants Edition – is a Japanese horror visual novel developed by Novectacle.
Eat Sushi or Die! Absurd sushi eating action game is capturing the hearts of Japanese gamers. Sorosoro sushi o tabenaito shinuze! (I’m going to die if I don’t eat sushi soon!) is available on PC as a free download.
Uma Musume Pretty Derby’s theme song “Umapyoi Densetsu” praised by Sakanaction vocalist Ichiro Yamaguchi. Yamaguchi is the frontman of the Japanese band Sakanaction.
Genshin Impact sees 4 female characters get less revealing alternate outfits. These new outfits may become the default in China.
Pro gamer Justin Wong gets Daigo’d to start the new year. Recreating the legendary EVO 2004 moment.
Pokémon Sword and Shield Ranked Battle Series 12 allows for two restricted Legendary Pokémon. Series 12 will run from February 1 to September 1.
Japanese eSports event tracking website TAIYORO is now live. The site covers eSports and speedrunning events held in Japan.
Pokémon BDSP’s Menu Storage glitch fixed again with version 1.1.3 update. The glitch involving using NPCs in the Grand Underground to make money has been patched as well.
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