Konami reports record-breaking profits, confirms upcoming releases for 2024 and beyond
Konami's global release pipeline is packed with games from popular IPs like Silent Hill, Metal Gear Solid, Yu-Gi-Oh! and Suikoden.
VERACITY IN GAMING
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Automaton West Editor and translator. She has a soft spot for old-school Sierra adventure games and Final Fantasy VIII (yes, 8!). Can often be found hunting down weird forgotten games and finding out everything about them. Frequently muses about characters and lines from Metal Gear Solid and Disco Elysium. Aims to keep Automaton fresh and interesting with a wide variety of articles.
Paris Olympics stars go viral in Japan for doing “no MTX” runs and giving off City Hunter vibes
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Shin Megami Tensei board game with 72 different demon figures gets Kickstarter campaign
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Undertale’s Toby Fox writes new song for Hololive Vtuber
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Dead or Alive Xtreme Venus Vacation’s new girl Reika was created entirely by the international dev team
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Like a Dragon’s switch to the Dragon Engine was a big part of the series graphical evolution, devs say
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Like a Dragon live-action series’ first episode made RGG Studio’s director tremble, scream and run for a cigarette break
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Earth Defense Force 6 doubles predecessor’s peak player count in just one day
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Veteran Capcom game music composer takes TikTok by storm, composing tracks in 5 minutes
TikToker revealed to be Mega Man music composer Harumi Fujita cooks up tunes in the style of well-known game franchises in just 5 minutes.
FromSoftware’s Armored Core 6 surpasses 3 million copies sold worldwide in under a year
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An impressive 16% of Rise of the Ronin players have collected all 100 cats
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