A recent study shows that in 2022, Konami Group Corporation was the no. 1 company in Japan's game industry based on number of patents which blocked competitor companies' patent registration.
Dialogue from Street Fighter 6 has disproven the popular fan theory that Ryu is unemployed and penniless. A tweet that presents official proof of Ryu being loaded has gone viral. Fans are also expressing newly found appreciation for his friend…
Lasengle's Yoshinori Ono gave away copies of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom to the company's employees.
ePARA, a Japan-based barrier-free e-sport business collaborated with Capcom to make Street Fighter 6 accessible to players with visual impairment.
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.
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.”
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.
Resident Evil 4 remake launched just a few days ago, but someone has already created a mod that adds Thomas the Tank Engine to the game.
The dialogue of the villagers in the "Resident Evil 4 Anime PV Resident Evil Masterpiece Theater" are actually memes created based on the original game, and Japanese fans are overjoyed that these jokes are now “official.”
Square Enix is raising the base pay of permanent employees by an average of 10%. Since last year, a number of game companies in Japan, including Capcom, Bandai Namco, and Koei Tecmo, have announced their plans to increase the base pay of their employees.
Metroid Prime dev raises the issue of original staff not being credited in remasters. Let's take a look at how other remasters/remakes are treating the staff involved in the original work.
Nintendo has revealed that beginning in April, it will increase the base pay of all of its employees in Japan by 10%.
Why did Yoshinori Ono become the president of Lasengle, the developer of Fate/Grand Order (FGO)? What did he bring to the company, and what are his goals for the future [developer interview]?
Shinonome is a roguelike escape game based around the concept of a haunted house in the Edo period. The game was created by WODAN, a studio formed by Kenichi Iwao (FFXIV, Resident Evil) and Tatsuya Yoshikawa (Breath of Fire).
TiMi Studio Group and Capcom have announced that they are jointly developing a new mobile game in the Monster Hunter series. Like the majority of Monster Hunter games, it will be a hunting action game where you take on powerful monsters.
Capcom has released Ver.12.0.1 of Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak, an update that includes a change to gestures and pose sets. Despite recently being reduced to one gesture input per second a few days earlier, the game now accepts up to 4 inputs per second while maintaining the stability of its Lobbies.
Capcom recently held a closed beta test for their upcoming fighting game Street Fighter 6, and players were also able to try out the game’s accessibility options which have been gaining a lot of attention from parts of the fanbase. Street Fighter 6 is scheduled to launch in 2023.
Capcom has announced that the recently released free Title Update 2 for Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak has limited the ability to rapidly repeat gestures and pose sets. In order to reduce the load on the game’s Lobby, inputs have been limited to one per second.
Byking has released 5 free games to Steam from the company’s BykingRooKIES brand. Byking is a game developer in Japan known for their involvement with titles like My Hero One’s Justice. The 5 free games they recently released were developed by new employees at the company as a part of their introductory training.
Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak’s free Title Update 2 adds Goocoo Plush. Goocoo (Gu-Ku) is a duck character whose return was prayed for by one player who previously crafted and upgraded 1,000 Origami Axes in the hopes of being given a chance to meet Goocoo again.
Capcom has released the patch notes for Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak’s free Title Update 2. Among the additional content, bug fixes, and balance adjustments, players seem especially pleased about a line that says, “Fugen's endemic life traps will no longer hit the player.”
