One arcade’s alleged angry notice at Konami for ending online support for Sound Voltex cabinets from 2020 has gone viral in Japan.
One arcade’s alleged angry notice at Konami for ending online support for Sound Voltex cabinets from 2020 has gone viral in Japan.
In a very elaborate April Fools stunt, The Pokémon Company has announced a worldwide “Pokémon Sleep Champion Tournament,” planned for 2024.
Platform 8, the official sequel to Kotake Create’s 2023 smash hit The Exit 8, combines new gameplay with familiar elements from The Exit 8.
Tekken 8’s developers revealed that pluggers will preferentially be matched with each other following the on April 2.
Update 1.050 for Dragon’s Dogma 2 addresses criticisms, adding a New Game option, Art of Metamorphosis item increase, and graphical options.
A mysterious McDonald’s-exclusive Nintendo DSi and eCDP cartridge appeared and quickly vanished from a thrift-store’s listing.
In Rise of the Ronin, historical figures like Perry and Sakamoto Ryoma drop by your longhouse- the surrealism is amusing Japanese players.
Nintendo’s Princess Peach: Showtime! has outsold both Dragon’s Dogma 2 and Rise of the Ronin in its first week of sales in Japan.
Chinese games like Honkai Star Rail and Ark Knights contain hard-to-translate idioms, prompting discussion on how to localize them into Japanese.
Visions of Mana producer reveals how the upcoming RPG will let players explore the vibrant and unique world of Mana like never before.
Producer Masaru Oyamada explains how Square Enix’s upcoming Visions of Mana stays true to the beloved Japanese RPG series’ roots.
Esports player Shunya Hatakeyama has muscular dystrophy and is raising funds to achieve his dream of competing in EVO2024 in Las Vegas.
School Paranormal Laboratory gameplay screenshot
Debates about reselling games have broken out on social media in Japan, revealing generational differences in how people consume games.
Final Fantasy 14’s director Naoki Yoshida revealed that Titan boss fight’s difficulty caused at least 300k players to drop the game.
Inspired by The Exit 8, Track No. 9 is a Japanese pixel art adventure game where you must escape a train station by spotting anomalies.
Katamari Damacy sound director and main composer Yuu Miyake comments on the game’s iconic OST being available digitally for the first time.
Tencent Cloud, owned by Tencent Holdings, have become an official partner of PocketPair, assigned with dedicated server creation for Palworld.
The Japanese bunny girl dating simulator Bunny Garden has managed to generate a lot of pre-launch buzz with its panty-peeping “PTA system.”
DoDonPachi SaiDaiOuJou’s hidden boss Inbachi (Hina) has finally been defeated in a perfect run of Cave’s fiendish bullet hell shooter.
Dragon’s Dogma 2’s Dragonsplague infection has brought about its own conspiracy theories and anti-Briner crowd, who suggest cures such as ox laxatives.
CLAMP and Wit Animations’ new six episode anime anthology The Grimm Variations debuts on Netflix on April 17.
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