Nintendo’s surprise title The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club tops Japan’s preorder charts
The first new title in Nintendo’s Famicom Detective Club series in 35 years, Emio- The Smiling Man has you investigating a grisly murder
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Verity Townsend
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.
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Ubisoft agrees to remove flag from Assassin’s Creed Shadows artbook, issues overall message to Japanese community
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Visions of Mana: details on new characters, class switching and Elemental gameplay
New insights into Visions of Mana's elemental, class switching gameplay and the characters the party meets on their journey to the Mana Tree
Final Fantasy artist Yoshitaka Amano’s Kickstarter for first European exhibition reaches target in just 3 hours
A Kickstarter for a retrospective art exhibition in Italy celebrating Yoshitaka Amano has already surpassed its 50,000 euro goal.
Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess gets traditional Japanese puppet show prequel
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New Pokémon Sleep study shows that Germans get the most sleep, while Japanese get the least
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