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GungHo Group Acquires Grasshopper Manufacture
Japanese publisher GungHo Group has acquired Lollipop Chainsaw developer Grasshopper Manufacture. The studio was founded by famed Japanese games developer Suda 51 (Goichi Suda), whose work includes No...
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Report: Mobile Game Puzzle & Dragons Earned $2 Million a Day in January
Free-to-play mobile game Puzzle & Dragons from Japanese developer and publisher GungHo Online Entertainment supposedly generated around $65 million during January - or about $2 million dollars a...
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Former Square Enix Exec Keiji Fujita Joins Adways Interactive
Former Square Enix and Taito executive Keiji Fujita has joined Japanese mobile ad network and game publisher Adways, the company announced today. Fujita will take the reins of the company's San...
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Sony Unloads Stake in DeNa for $438 Million
Sony has decided to unload its holdings in mobile game developer and publisher DeNa, according to this Reuters report. Sony has reportedly sold all of its shares in the company to Japanese-based...
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Aksys Games Hosting Donation Drive for Great Eastern Japan Earthquake and...
Aksys Games passed along word that it is currently hosting a donation drive in observance of the second Anniversary of the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Disaster. To help those still...
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Puzzle & Dragons GungHo Acquired by SoftBank
In late January we reported that GungHo Group had acquired Suda 51's studio Grasshopper Manufacture. In late February the Japanese mobile publisher revealed staggering sales figures: it reported it had...
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SCE Consolidates Operations in Asia
Sony Computer Entertainment Japan and Sony Computer Entertainment Asia have been consolidated into one business unit operating within Sony, according to this press release - as uncovered by Kotaku. The...
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Microsoft Offers Incentives for Japanese Xbox 360 Players to Play More
Microsoft has announced a new incentive for Japan that will kick into high gear on April 20th. Xbox 360 owners in the region will get free Microsoft Points based on the collective amount of time that...
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Fans Offer to Translate Mother 3 for Nintendo at No Charge
Fans want a new Earthbound game so badly in North America that some have even offered to translate Mother 3 into English for Nintendo for free. The team of fans, which includes a professional...
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Nintendo of Japan Patches Out Same-Sex Relationships in Tomodachi Collection:...
Kotaku reports that the same sex relationships enjoyed by male characters in the Japanese game Tomodachi Collection: New Life have been patched out. Last week it came to light that male characters in...
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Atlus Parent Company Index Under Investigation by Japanese Authorities
The parent company of Atlas is being investigated in Japan for "shady practices," according to this Kotaku report. In Japan "Atlus" is just a brand on paper and not a real company anymore because the...
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Atlus at Risk as Parent Company's Future is Uncertain
Publisher Atlus has an uncertain future today as its parent company in Japan, Index, wrestles with what seems like an insurmountable amount of debt. According to a CNet Japan report, Index has filed...
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Club Nintendo Security Breached in Japan
Nintendo announced that Club Nintendo, its member rewards site in Japan, has been hacked. The security breach was discovered when Nintendo noticed a large number of access errors on July 2. This...
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Nintendo Wins Major Victory Against R4 Resellers
Nintendo, Square Enix and a number of other Japanese game makers have won a major victory in a long-running battle against two distributors of R4 devices. The devices are used to store and play...
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Character Chowdown Adds Disgaea Favorites
NIS America has added some new characters to its educational iOS puzzle game, Character Chowdown. The in-game content, which will cost you roughly $0.99 a pop, includes characters from the popular...
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Bizarre Japanese Sex Game Gets Oculus Rift Support
An erotic Japanese game that utilizes a phallic-shaped controller device now has Oculus Rift support to boot. The game is called Custom Maid 3D and it lets players create a maid that you can then...
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Report: Twenty Companies Including Sega Interested in Buying Atlus
Sega is one of twenty companies interested in buying out Atlus from Japanese parent company Index Holdings, according to a Blomberg Japan report (by way of CVG). Index Holdings purchased Atlus in 2006,...
View ArticleProject Phoenix Doubles Crowd Funding Goal
The Kickstarter campaign for Project Phoenix, an indie Japanese role-playing game being developed by Creative Intelligence Arts for PC, is a smashing success. In less than 24 hours the project has been...
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MGS5 Female Sniper 'Quiet' Getting 'Erotic' Makeover for Cosplayers
Apparently a Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain character is getting redesigned to be more "erotic" according what game director Hideo Kojima wrote in a series of tweets today. This, he believes,...
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Halo Designer Calls Out Kojima's 'Sexy' Comments
Halo designer David Ellis thinks the Hideo Kojima-approved "sexy" design for the Metal Gear Sold 5 Quiet is "ridiculous," and says that the industry is full of what he calls "man babies." Earlier in...
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