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Game devs charged up to 50x more for fonts by Japanese typeface maker and yes, even this might be AI's fault

AI doesn't pay.

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Like a Dragon creators won't buckle to mainstream western tastes: 'people start making strange things when they misunderstand what their business is supposed to be'

Ryu Ga Gotoku won't create a foreign protagonist whose story is set overseas.

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Nintendo, cover your eyes: Kirby Air Riders players fight back as micro bikini vehicle gets removed from the Switch 2 racer, immediately replacing it with a newer, sexier version

The open flames aren't the hottest thing in Chef Kawasaki's kitchen

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One small indie developer has accidentally saddled itself with almost 65,000 extra people to thank after initially asking for 100 names to pad out its credits

That's a lot of special thanks.

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Approximately 2,555 days after a 'day one' giveaway, people are finally receiving copies of a game they won 7 years ago

Turns out "day one" was several years and eight delays away.

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Stellar Blade studio swears it wasn't doing anti-small-penis 'hate speech' in art that had men in a tizz, and promises it won't ever 'tolerate' it in future

Targeting potential "crab hand" gestures has caught out several companies in South Korea.

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Anime-based therapy is being trialed in Japan

Well, to be specific, visual novel-based therapy.

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Nobody told Octopath Traveler 0 devs they'd make an extreme town building system, so they guessed it was a mistake before the JRPG's producer said it "absolutely" wasn't: "I thought it would be only logical"

If you say so!

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Silent Hill f actor didn't just feel her "sanity slipping" while recording for the horror game, "there were times when I would burst into tears" during production: "I felt like I was going crazy"

"The more time I spent facing Hinako, the more my confusion grew"

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As games face censorship on Steam and beyond, Japanese site says fine, we'll make our own dang payment method, and actually pulls it off

DLsite finds an alternative amid Visa and Mastercard moral crackdown

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Ghost of Yotei only lets you pet the fox because of its "proper" research into Japanese history, says expert, but you might get a tapeworm if you tried it today

Don't pet the fox, OK?

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OpenAI hastily retreats from gung-ho copyright policy after embarrassing Sora video output like AI Sam Altman surrounded by Pokémon saying 'I hope Nintendo doesn't sue us'

OpenAI updates its policy for copyrighted content in Sora after a wave of viral videos containing Japanese IP.

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"We don't need a gacha system": Like a man boldly arguing fire burns, dev says gacha garbage is not fun and "getting rid of gacha" in their anime action RPG "is beneficial for developers too"

Duet Night Abyss ditching gacha mechanics does bring some "concerns," but devs say it's worth it

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Resident Evil: Requiem "conveys the romanticism of a delicate girl fighting with a rugged revolver," director says, but its RE2-style boss battles prioritize subtlety over "gun shooting action"

Keep your rugged revolver to yourself

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TGS players try Ananta, the game that looks like an anime GTA, Spider-Man, and Yakuza hybrid, and shockingly report that it feels like an anime GTA, Spider-Man, and Yakuza hybrid

While some worry the similarities may result in a Palworld situation

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Over half of Japanese game companies are using AI in development according to a new survey, including Level-5 and Capcom

A survey of Japanese game companies showed that AI use has reached a tipping point.

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Japan's space agency officially ends decade-plus mission that carried Hatsune Miku into space one year after losing probe somewhere above Venus

JAXA's Akatsuki Venus orbiter has officially been shut down well over a decade after launch.

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After 25 years, Dragon Quest creator debunks Dragon Quest 7 fan theory about the real identity of the classic JRPG's final boss: "That's completely wrong. I didn't consider that even slightly"

Apparently there was never a world where Orgodemir's true identity was Kiefer

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Final Fantasy composer shares concern about 'stagnation' in game music: 'Frankly speaking, there’s less weird things now'

"I believe directors and producers hold too much power in their hands even when it comes to the music."

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Pokemon fan finds holy grail that's been "sat in the closet for decades" – an immaculate, sealed copy of Pokemon Blue with a rare error that makes the RPG even more valuable

A collector's dream

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The Switch 2's controversial game-key cards prove to be a preservation nightmare as Japan's national library refuses to use them

It's almost as if they are bad alternative to physical games

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New report suggests that there are 3 million fewer PC gamers in Japan than 10 years ago, despite the market having at least tripled in size

Does that add up?

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Indie devs in shambles but "still laughing" after translation error turns their dungeon roguelite into "Crap Dungeon" on Steam: "Please give our game a try, I'm hoping it's not actually crap"

Well this stinks...

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A veteran Final Fantasy programmer hates how indie games deliberately recreate PS1 visual bugs he made 'many futile efforts' to fix: 'I just don’t get what’s so interesting about trying to replicate that'

The kiddies can't get enough affine texture warping these days.

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'I won't show those illustrations to anyone as long as I live': Nintendo of America suggested giving Pikachu 'huge breasts' when Pokémon first came to the US, and no, it wasn't a mistranslation

I have an idea to redesign Pikachu! Well, actually, two ideas. Big ones.

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