VERACITY IN GAMING
VERACITY IN GAMING
Exit Veil is an occult-themed JRPG with 3D exploration, a healing-focused turn-based combat system, and tarot cards all brought together. The team behind Exit Veil is Cherrymochi, an indie studio known for their debut game Tokyo Dark.
Like Dreamer is a bullet hell shooter with a social media theme. In the game’s world there’s a popular bullet hell social media platform called Bulletolk, and by showing off impressive gameplay, users can receive “likes” from others. Like Dreamer is set to launch on July 21 for PC (Steam).
A new AI-powered shogi (Japanese chess) analysis service for professional players called Kishin Analytics was released in Japan. Kishin Analytics is a service that lets users have shogi games analyzed by the latest deep learning shogi AI dlshogi and by Yaneuraou’s Suishou shogi AI all from a web browser.
CEO of Grasshopper Manufacture Goichi Suda has revealed that he is not in any way involved with the Lollipop Chainsaw remake project. Film director James Gunn, who wrote the story for the original game, also confirmed that he is not involved.
Dragami Games has announced that they will develop Lollipop Chainsaw Remake (tentative title) to commemorate the ten-year anniversary of the game’s original release. The game is due out in 2023, but platforms have yet to be decided.
Composer Kohta Takahashi has released a new album called REIWA TYPE 4 on Bandcamp and BOOTH. Takahashi says they imagined what a new Ridge Racer might be like and composed the songs with that concept in mind.
Cosmic Fantasy Collection (tentative title) is in development for the Nintendo Switch. Cosmic Fantasy Collection will include ports of two RPGs from the Cosmic Fantasy series: the 1990 released Cosmic Fantasy: Bouken Shounen Yuu and the 1991 released Cosmic Fantasy 2.
Many gamers are knowledgeable about the released games they’ve played, but how much do they know about how they were made? PushDustIn, who runs PR at the Kyoto-based VR/AR game developer CharacterBank, took to Twitter to poll game developers about what they wished the public knew about making games.
Rōnin Trail is an open world adventure game where players take on the role of a samurai in Japan. The game takes place during Japan’s Edo-period where a masterless samurai, or rōnin, is left to wander the countryside searching for their purpose.
The official Twitter account for the soccer manga and anime Captain Tsubasa has notified fans that NFTs featuring art from the series are being illicitly sold. "All Captain Tsubasa related NFTs issued by FOOTBALL METAVERSE and MANGAVERSE are illegal. Rights regarding Captain Tsubasa are exclusively managed by TSUBASA Co., Ltd."
Japanese game development studio Treasure welcomed their 30th anniversary and revealed that they are developing "'that' highly requested title" with the aim of announcing it this year.
Head of Dragami Games Yoshimi Yasuda has revealed that Lollipop Chainsaw will be making a comeback. Lollipop Chainsaw is an action game that was released in 2012 for the PS3 and Xbox 360. It was directed by Goichi Suda, known for games such as the No More Heroes series.