Game DevelopmentInterviews2025-10-02 23:00Final Fantasy 7 Remake’s progression boosts and sped-up cutscenes can reduce playtime to under 10 hours. Director Hamaguchi tells us why he personally pushed for them Amber VNews (Japan-related)5
Game DevelopmentInterviewsPR2025-10-02 03:00Square Enix’s Emberstoria switched to elaborate lip-syncing technology only 6 months before launch, achieving a level of realism rarely seen in mobile games AUTOMATON WESTNews (Japan-related)
Game DevelopmentNews2025-09-30 03:00Resident Evil Requiem devs say optimizing for Switch 2 was a smooth ride. “We accounted for scalability from the start, it wasn’t a forceful downgrade” Amber VNews (Japan-related)
Game DevelopmentNews2025-09-25 22:00Nioh’s developers stick to the tradition of pre-launch demos because they believe player feedback helped shape the series into what it is todayAmber VNews (Japan-related)
Game DevelopmentInterviews2025-09-23 22:00Ghost of Yotei pushes the limits of draw distance far beyond its predecessor thanks to the PS5’s capabilities. We talk to the devs about what’s changed AUTOMATON WEST1
Game DevelopmentInterviewsNews2025-09-23 02:00How to make a hit visual novel? Getting intimate with your fans is the key, say Urban Myth Dissolution Center and Gnosia devs Đorđe PNews (Japan-related)
Game DevelopmentNews2025-09-22 22:00How does Ghost of Yotei feel so Japanese even to Japanese people? We talk to the devs about the responsibility that comes with making games outside your own culture AUTOMATON WEST
Game DevelopmentNews2025-09-19 02:00Early access periods should ideally be around six months, research suggests Hideaki FujiwaraNews (Global)
Game DevelopmentInterviews2025-09-18 22:00Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma’s devs set out to rectify the series’ buggy reputation with the mindset “we’re not releasing a day-one patch” Amber VNews (Japan-related)
Game DevelopmentIndie GamesInterviews2025-09-12 23:00Eight years in development and over 1 million units sold. Solo creator of hit survival life sim Dinkum talks development and upcoming Nintendo Switch edition AUTOMATON WEST
Game DevelopmentInterviews2025-09-09 02:00From Trials of Mana to Romancing SaGa 2, Japanese contract developer Xeen has silently become a powerhouse in remake development AUTOMATON WESTNews (Japan-related)2
Game DevelopmentNews2025-09-08 22:00At Nintendo, “every developer is a director.” If you make excuses, you get removed from the team, veteran saysAmber VNews (Japan-related) / Nintendo1
