Composer Ryo Nagamatsu (Splatoon’s Salmon Run, etc.) revealed that he is no longer working at Nintendo as of April 30.
Composer Ryo Nagamatsu (Splatoon’s Salmon Run, etc.) revealed that he is no longer working at Nintendo as of April 30.
Xenoblade Chronicles developer Monolith Soft has announced that it substantially increased the base pay of its employees beginning in April.
Bandai Namco Entertainment has announced The Idolmaster Shiny Colors: Song for Prism, an idol training simulation & rhythm game, and the latest title in The Idolmaster Shiny Colors series.
Classic visual novel ONE. will be released in Japan on December 22 for the Nintendo Switch and PC. The original ONE is known as the pioneer of the Nakige genre.
Game dev Hiromichi Takahashi voices his concerns about the fact that YouTube and Twitch don’t share revenue with game devs for let’s play videos and streaming.
Regista and Takahashi Meijin have announced that StarGagnant will be released on the Nintendo Switch in Japan on May 25. StarGagnant is a vertical scrolling shoot’em up supervised by Takahashi.
Veteran game developer Matt Hackett has created a “Steam Dev Cheat Sheet” that offers tips for releasing a game on Steam. The sheet has caught the attention of many fellow developers.
A player has attempted a speedrun of SQUARE ENIX AI Tech Preview: THE PORTOPIA SERIAL MURDER CASE and completed the game in under 5 minutes using Japanese input.
[Update] Gotcha Gotcha Games has launched RPG Maker Unite on May 8 after multiple delays. It’s currently available on Unity Asset Store for $99.99 USD (excl. taxes).
Nintendo recently released a commercial for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, and some eagle-eyed fans have found an indication that Koroks will be making their return.
Dragami Games has announced that it will release new DLC for LoveR and LoveR Kiss. The costumes in this DLC set are all quite raunchy—like the Succubus Rouge, which shows off a surprising amount of skin.
Square Enix released an NFT Million Arthur game, Shi-San-Sei Million Arthur, in which the player collects sushi and uses it to manufacture underpants.
Square Enix has released SQUARE ENIX AI Tech Preview: THE PORTOPIA SERIAL MURDER CASE on Steam. The tech preview serves as an educational demonstration of Natural Language Processing.
The Mega Man Battle Network Legacy Collection is performing well in Japan, with physical copies of the game being sold out in many locations. The collections are available on PC (Steam), PS4 and Nintendo Switch.
A PS4/PS5 demo for Street Fighter 6 is now available, and the game’s strongest Lv8 CPUs have been garnering attention for their human-like play that can serve to show players what high-level play looks like.
Sunsoft announced a remake of Ufouria: The Saga. The original Ufouria: The Saga is a NES game released in 1991. Sunsoft describes the game as “a Metroidvania that was ahead of its time.”
Freelance artist Yan Ru released a free demo for Anime Tokyo, which features an incredibly realistic recreation of Tokyo made using Unreal Engine 5.
The ChatGPT_APIMZ plugin for RPG Maker MZ lets users implement ChatGPT generated dialogue into their games.
Fahrenheit 213 and Aniplex have released a teaser visual for their upcoming “new indie game.” [Update: Murder Mystery Paradox: Fifteen Years of Summer officially announced]
Shinji Mikami has finished playing through the Resident Evil 4 remake. He completed the game in two weeks and showed his approval by posting a tweet that said, “I enjoyed it very much.”
FromSoftware has released update Version 1.09.1 for Elden Ring. In addition to a couple of bug fixes, the update also nerfs the Cursed-Blood Slice skill, which had only very recently been buffed in Version 1.09.
There are total of ten Event Quests that feature Rajang/Furious Rajang in Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak. The new Event Quest Food Fight also includes a Rajang as one of the targets.
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