An unofficial Nintendo-themed dating app called Smash Together apparently got a cease-and-desist letter from Nintendo, only one day before officially entering open beta. Smash Together was supposed to ...

Two British tourists in Japan, a 30-year-old man and 29-year-old woman, were rescued after attempting to climb Mount Yōtei, a 1,898-meter mountain in Hokkaido and the namesake of the upcoming ...

While Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 doesn’t have any playable card games (at least, not yet), the turn-based JRPGs that inspired it certainly do. Upon travelling to the Gestral Village, you may run into ...

Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii did a lot of things the Yakuza series has never done before – including maritime adventures and full-on naval ship battles. When designing the pirate spin-off’s ...

Leaving its early access period, Preferred Network’s Omega Crafter officially launches on May 15. Omega Crafter is an open-world base-building survival game in which you automate tasks needed for ...

Arc System Works has issued a statement addressing a rumored data breach that resulted in Guilty Gear Strive’s source code and compiled development builds being leaked. The company confirmed that a ...

Responding to fan requests for an anime adaptation on X, Kodaka says he would be more than happy to animate the series. Since The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy has so many narrative options, ...

Last month, Western media reported that Japanese film giant Toei signed a deal with South African company Pambili for the co-production of a historical epic feature film tentatively titled Yasuke – ...

The success of NieR: Automata and the NieR franchise makes it almost impossible to imagine a world without Yoko Taro’s Drakengard spin-off series, but before the ideas of the first NieR were even ...

SEGA released Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii on February 21 for the PC (Steam), PS4/PS5 and Xbox One/Xbox Series X|S. The outlandish Majima-centered spin-off has received particular attention ...

In its financial report for the fiscal year ended March 2025, Nintendo revealed that it expects the Switch 2 to ship 15 million units worldwide by the end of March 2026, with software sales for the ...

Automaton West writer. Zoto has been playing video games for 30+ years now but has only recently come to grips with PC gaming. When he isn't playing video games, he watches romance anime and gets mad ...