Game DevelopmentNews2025-02-26 18:30Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii’s developers were still overhauling the game’s ocean maps as late as October last year Carlos "Zoto" ZotomayorNews (Japan-related)
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Game DevelopmentNews2025-02-25 18:05Like a Dragon’s RGG Studio speaks up about women in programming: “We have a lot of women on board, and we have female leaders,” says technical director Amber VNews (Japan-related)
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ColumnGame Development2025-02-18 13:12The Nintendo Switch kept us busy with its limited CPU and RAM, but it also made optimization a fun puzzle to figure out – Japanese engineers talk about difficulties they faced and their expectations for the Switch 2 Nobuaki ShibuyaNintendo
Game DevelopmentInterviews2025-02-13 09:29Interview: Koei Tecmo’s WARRIORS: Abyss is a major Japanese developer’s take on the roguelite genre, made by a hardcore roguelite lover AUTOMATON WEST
Game DevelopmentNews2025-02-04 17:13Kingdom Come Deliverance 2’s Japanese concept artist went above and beyond to make sure there was nothing foreign about their depiction of Medieval Europe Amber VNews (Global)
Game DevelopmentNews2025-02-04 16:39RPG Maker VX Ace is free on Steam as part of RPG Maker Festival 2025 Verity TownsendNews (Japan-related)
Game DevelopmentNews2025-01-31 15:38“If you’ve worked on a Chinese game, you’ll know production scale is on a whole other level” Japanese devs discuss growing quality of Chinese games Amber VNews (Japan-related)
Game DevelopmentNews2025-01-28 13:03Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O: Adding rollback netcode to 13-year-old source code seemed impossible at first, but we knew it was absolutely necessary, says dev Amber VNews (Japan-related)
Game DevelopmentNews2025-01-23 18:41Dynasty Warriors: Origins developers were instructed to “go kill the player” when designing enemies Amber VNews (Japan-related)
Game DevelopmentNews2025-01-23 16:18Capcom is experimenting with generative AI to help generate the “hundreds of thousands of ideas needed for game development” Amber VAI / News (Japan-related)
