To finish up 2024, we decided to look back on some of the weirder news from this year. Here are five of the oddest incidents that we had the pleasure of reporting on in 2024. We would like to wish all ...

It was a big surprise when Astro Bot won the Game of The Year award at The Game Awards 2024 earlier this December. But just as Team Asobi was flabbergasted about their game winning, they were shocked ...

If you were asked to name the creator of the Famicom (NES), who would come to mind first? Was it Masayuki Uemura, who was in charge of development? Or perhaps the President of Nintendo Hiroshi ...

As 2024 comes to a close, here is an overview of how some of Japan’s major game companies have performed this year. Please note that these summaries are not comprehensive and mostly focus on each ...

During a December 26 broadcast on the official RGG Studio YouTube channel, studio director Masayoshi Yokoyama made new comments about the recently announced Project Century (as reported by GamesTalk).

Gift Ten Industry recently launched an official website for their upcoming puzzle-solving adventure game MR ELEVATOR. The website (in Japanese) gives insight into the development of this award-winning ...

Despite having Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii and Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O lined up for the beginning of 2025, Sega’s RGG Studio announced at TGS 2024 that it has two other big projects in the ...

This week, it was revealed that Pokémon took the top spot in a ranking of Japan’s most wide-reaching entertainment brands in the year 2024. The ranking is based on a comprehensive domestic study ...

Japanese indie developer LaFrontier has been consistently updating the Early Access version of sandbox RPG Elin (playable on Steam). The latest Elin update (EA23.67) adds various stability fixes and ...

At the CEDEC+KYUSHU 2024 developers’ conference held in Japan on November 23, 2024, Persona series creative producer Kazuhisa Wada held a presentation about various aspects of the franchise, including ...

A Japanese indie developer recently recounted the stressful experience of having their game repeatedly flagged as a virus, and gave some helpful information for others who might find themselves in ...

Fighting game fans waiting for Guilty Gear Strive ’s release on Nintendo Switch this coming January 23 will be happy to hear that Queen Dizzy will be available to all players for free just one month ...