VERACITY IN GAMING
VERACITY IN GAMING
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.
Paris Olympics stars go viral in Japan for doing “no MTX” runs and giving off City Hunter vibes
Air pistol medal winners Yusuf Dikec and Ye-ji Kim are trending on Japanese social media too, with manga character comparisons & fan tributes.
Shin Megami Tensei board game with 72 different demon figures gets Kickstarter campaign
Shin Megami Tensei The Board Game will have players strategically dabbling in some Demon Negotiation and Demon Fusion.
Undertale’s Toby Fox writes new song for Hololive Vtuber
Game creator Toby Fox, known for Undertale and Deltarune, has written a brand new song for Hololive VTuber Hokushou Marine.
Dead or Alive Xtreme Venus Vacation’s new girl Reika was created entirely by the international dev team
DOAXVV's producer gives behind the scenes insight into the game's newest girl, Reika, and how she was created.
Like a Dragon’s switch to the Dragon Engine was a big part of the series graphical evolution, devs say
The in-house Dragon Engine has been allowing RRG Studio developers to up the Like a Dragon series' graphics and realism from Yakuza 6 onwards
Koei Tecmo’s latest financial report suggests a rich game lineup, including an unannounced AAA title
Koei Tecmo series Dynasty Warriors, Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Fairy Tail will all get new games in 2024-2025, and there's also a new AAA title in the works
Like a Dragon live-action series’ first episode made RGG Studio’s director tremble, scream and run for a cigarette break
Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio Director Masayoshi Yokoyama reacts to Amazon Prime's upcoming Like a Dragon: Yakuza live-action adaptation.
Earth Defense Force 6 doubles predecessor’s peak player count in just one day
Releasing on July 25, Earth Defense Force 6 has surpassed over 17,000 concurrent players on Steam in just a day, more than double EDF5's peak
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
Since it's August 2023 release, Armored Core 6 has become the best selling entry in the mech action game series Armored Core by a long shot
An impressive 16% of Rise of the Ronin players have collected all 100 cats
Cuddling all the cute cats in Rise of the Ronin has become quite an attraction for players seeking a purrfect playthrough.
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
Is Silent Hill creator’s upcoming Slitterhead horror? Action? Developers discuss genre and what awaits players
We spoke to Slitterhead director Keiichiro Toyama, composer Akira Yamaoka and character designer Tatsuya Yoshikawa to find out more.
Koei Tecmo’s Representative Director sets up fund to support children from single mother households
Koei Tecmo's Keiko Erikawa sets up scholarship fund help children from low income households in Japan to pursue higher education.
Ubisoft agrees to remove flag from Assassin’s Creed Shadows artbook, issues overall message to Japanese community
Ubisoft will remove the Sekigahara Teppo-tai historical re-enactment group's flag from it's Assassin's Creed Shadows' artbook
Square’s Chrono Trigger almost had a fighting game, according to veteran dev Seiichi Ishii
A desire to work with Akira Toriyama’s character designs almost led the Tekken creator to make a Chrono Trigger 3D beat’em up...
Konami’s new Shohei Ohtani tie-in baseball game under fire for game-breaking bugs
Rampant bugs mean that Konami's Powerful Pro Baseball 2024-2025 isn't the big hitter Shohei Ohtani fans were hoping for right out of the box
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
Capcom collaborates with Japan's National Bunraku Theater to give its new game Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess a puppet play prequel.
Unreal Engine 5 has tremendous potential as an anime production tool, according to Japanese studio
Tsumugi Akita Anime Lab give insight into how they used Unreal Engine 5 in the production of their anime I Was Reincarnated as the 7th Prince
Protect a birthday cake from a crowded Japanese station in this hyperactive sidescroller
Coming to Early Access on July 19, The Cake is a quirky action game from Japanese developer Racjin, known for some of the Bomberman games.