By leveraging Alconost’s services as a US-based localiser, the partnership will grant overseas developers a new means of entering the Japanese games market through AndApp - DeNA’s Japanese platform ...

Here’s how it works. Recently, former PlayStation boss Shuhei Yoshida named Nier: Automata the game that "revived" the Japanese games industry, citing that Nier director Yoko Taro "made it ...

Speaking to AV Watch, the ex-executive broke down his decades-long run at the publisher and dived into a time in the games industry where Japanese creators were chasing global trends to no avail.

Super Smash Bros. creator Masahiro Sakurai in an interview with Entax (and translated by Automaton) stated Japanese developers should focus on making games for the Japanese market. "It's not ...

A number of Japanese games companes including Nintendo, Sony, Capcom and DeNA have seen shares plummet since US president Donald Trump declared tariffs on imports from China to the US will be doubled.

(I played it over Christmas and concur.) Today, Japanese games have returned as a dominant force in the industry. Four of the five games nominated for the top prize at the Game Awards were from As ...

The Nintendo Switch may be a hybrid platform, but it still has plenty of scary games for players to check out in handheld or TV modes. When it comes to Japanese horror games, in particular ...

As you likely already know, Japanese games are the lifeblood of our site and there were quite a few of them released this year in 2024. As we wind down this year and prepare for the next ...

He co-hosts The Besties, is a board member of the Frida Cinema, and created NYU’s first games journalism course. Want to learn Japanese by playing video games and watching anime? A band of ...

From its humble beginnings on the NES to the latest 3D adventure, The Legend of Zelda games are undeniably some of the best games of all time. What began as a little adventure game about a boy in ...

Indie gaming in Japan is growing, while domestic investment in indie publishing and greater investment in independent and doujin creators is uprooting the Japanese games industry. According to the ...

At the start of January we predicted 2024 would be a strong year for Japanese games, but we weren't quite ready for the very first month of the year to knock our socks off. Metaphor: ReFantazio ...