12 people arrested in Japan over fraudulent in-game currency purchases in Sega and Square Enix games
The 12 people arrested were online game users who hired “microtransaction brokers” through an RMT website to obtain in-game money for them.
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Taijiro Yamanaka
Senior writer for Automaton Japan. Loves gaming news from Japan and abroad. He buys more games than he can physically play, so he spends his days clearing his backlog.
Nintendo Switch’s infamous “Hentai Girls” series gets renamed due to possible shadowban by eshop
"Hentai Girls" for the Nintendo Switch gets renamed to "Kawaii Girls" as the games stopped appearing in Switch 2's new releases section.
Silent Hill f ban in Australia retracted, age rating up for review again
The Australian Classification Board has retracted its "Refused Classification” rating of Konami's Silent Hill f.
“It used to sell only 70 copies a month.” The House in Fata Morgana creator touched as the game sells 10,000 copies in a single week, years after launch
The House in Fata Morgana creator Keika Hanada shares an important milestone, thanking players for spreading word about the game.
Hit visual novel pulled from Japanese Nintendo Switch store only four days after launch as age rating is brought into question
The dark visual novel game The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty was suddenly suspended from the Japanese Switch store due to a revision of its age rating.
Nintendo eShop seemingly takes action against notorious “hentai” puzzle games
A bunch of suggestive puzzle games like Hentai Girls and Hentai Golf have had their alternative DLC editions delisted from the Nintendo eShop.
Keiji Inafune’s silent departure from Level-5 last year complicated the development of Fantasy Life, CEO reveals
Level-5's CEO has announced the departure of veteran developer Keiji Inafune. Inafune appears to be affiliated with Rocket Studios now.
Godot Engine is seeing “explosive growth” – the total number of Godot games published on Steam this year has already surpassed last year’s, with 5 months left to go
Godot Engine creator Juan Linietsky says the open-source engine is seeing explosive growth, especially in 2024.
Hashire Hebereke: Remake of classic Japanese SNES game featuring cute racing penguin to get first ever global release
Following on from the successful Ufouria; The Saga 2 remake, Hashire Hebereke Ex will bring another Sunsoft game featuring the cute penguin to global audiences
Death Game Hotel: Gamble life and limb in Swery’s ultra-gory VR game, coming this July
Death Game Hotel is a sit-down VR title that lets you pit your wits against opponents in deadly games of Poker and Goblet of the Grim Reaper
Marvel vs. Capcom fans mourn Japan-exclusive character’s likely absence from upcoming remaster
Who is Marvel vs. Street Fighter's Japan-only character Norimaro, and why is he likely absent from the upcoming Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics?
Visions of Mana’s changes to US and Europe box art draw attention
The box art for the Japanese and US/European versions of Square Enix's Visions of Mana have subtle differences.