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Final Fantasy Publisher Eats $140 Million In 'Extraordinary Losses' Ahead Of Big Strategy Pivot
30.4.2024
Square Enix’s games have been hit or miss for years, and now the publisher behind Final Fantasy VII Rebirth and other blockbuster RPGs says it plans to be more careful about which projects it invests in. The company expects to “recognize extraordinary losses pertaining to abandonment losses...
Two Decades Ago, The Most Underrated Sonic Game Changed The Series Forever
10.1.2024
Sonic the Hedgehog famously kicked off the video game mascot race of the ‘90sRead more
Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3 Will Kick Off A Bloody Tournament Arc
2.1.2024
Jujutsu Kaisen wrapped up earlier this week after a long and fairly grim season. You won’t be surprised to learn that it’s got another season in the works, once again courtesy of MAPPA.Read more
16 Games That Felt Ahead Of Their Time
31.10.2023
This story is part of our new Future of Gaming series, a three-site look at gaming’s most pioneering technologies, players, and makers.Read more
Chainsaw Man Creator Wants To Stop Drawing Manga, Just Write Its Story
28.7.2023
During a recent interview with Japanese publisher Shueisha, Chainsaw Man creator Tatsuki Fujimoto revealed that he wouldn’t mind it if he stopped drawing his mega-popular shonen series entirely, so he could focus solely on penning its off-the-rails story.Read more
Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty’s Most Frustrating Enemy Can Go To Hell
6.3.2023
After about 40 hours of hellish action and sitting around level 95, I’m stuck on Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty’s last boss. I guess that makes sense. This is the end of the game, after all, so of course the finale would be difficult. But reaching this point was perilous for one specific reason: Despite...
Sonic Origins Dev Goes Off On State Of The Game
24.6.2022
Software developer Simon “Stealth” Thomley of Headcannon—the studio behind Sonic Mania—popped off on the state of the remastered Sonic Origins bundle, on which the team also worked. In a series of tweets, he said Headcannon had to put in “major time crunch” and was barred from implementing “major...
Sonic Creator Confirms Michael Jackson Composed Music For Sonic 3
23.6.2022
What a way to break some news, huh? On Twitter, Sonic the Hedgehog creator Yuji Naka said the quiet part out loud: Michael Jackson definitely, totally composed some music for the 1994 Sega Genesis game, Sonic the Hedgehog 3. Unfortunately, Naka followed up the confirmation that this long-running...
PUBG Mobile’s Neon Genesis Evangelion Crossover Is Plain Weird
17.5.2022
The latest PUBG Mobile event melds the handheld battle royale with anime masterpiece Neon Genesis Evangelion. Among other things, this means we get to see series mascot Eva Unit-01 perform silly dances, which is both delightful in an irony-poisoned sort of way and a serious indictment of...
Ghostwire: Tokyo’s Captivating World Is Overshadowed By Weak Combat
31.3.2022
Ghostwire: Tokyo, Tango Gameworks’ new action-adventure game with immersive sim-like elements, is a frustrating juxtaposition of highs and lows. It’s at once a compelling narrative about loss and the lengths we go to recover that which is gone, and a plodding first-person shooter with seriously...
The Jujutsu Kaisen 0 Film Is A Fresh Take On The Manga
24.3.2022
I was originally on the fence about watching Jujutsu Kaisen 0, the new anime film based on the manga of the same name, a prequel to the wildly popular Jujutsu Kaisen manga series. I’ve read Jujutsu Kaisen 0 and am entirely caught up on Jujutsu Kaisen so I didn’t think the film would have much...
Hell's Paradise Is A Gripping Horror Manga I Binged In 3 Days
7.3.2022
While Hell’s Paradise: Jigokuraku is full of gorgeous scenes, this particularly gruesome one stuck out to me: A wooden boat floated serenely along a foggy river, filled with beautiful flowers. Government officials would find a smiling corpse that had flowers growing out of its dismembered parts....
Drink Up Because 'Gaming Sake' Is Coming To Japan
22.2.2022
I’m a big fan of sake—so big, I even wrote a book on it! And I sure like video games. But do we really need sake for gamers? Do we? Apparently, sake bottler Hitomaku thinks so. Read more
Ghostwire: Tokyo Looks Like Dishonored In Modern-Day Japan And I'm Here For It
4.2.2022
Last night, developer Tango Gameworks delivered an in-depth look at the gameplay and narrative of its upcoming supernatural action-adventure game Ghostwire: Tokyo. We saw some tight abilities, some cool exploration, and some adorable kitties. We also now know that the March 25 release date that’s...
The 11 Best Manga Of 2021
27.12.2021
This year didn’t only bless us with terrific anime, but also with wonderful manga. Thank goodness for that! Here is our list of the best manga of 2021.Read more
The Worst Games Of 2021 According To Metacritic
17.12.2021
It was the best of games, it was the worst of games. 2021 was another year where we flocked to our gaming consoles and computers for shelter from the virus-ridden world outside. While there were plenty of good games to play this year, there were also those so bad that they made everything more...
Even Sonic Dad Yuji Naka Is Shocked At Game’s $430,000 Auction Price
22.9.2021
The rivalry between Mario and Sonic goes back for decades, but even one of Sonic’s creators was stunned to see the blue hedgehog apparently giving chase to Mario in a whole new realm: that of outrageously priced video game auctions.Read more
Slime Isekai’s DBZ Homage Has Everyone Arguing About Kamehamehas
15.9.2021
They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and the newest episode of That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime flattered Dragon Ball Z in spades. In the second to last episode of the anime’s second season, the heroic Veldora started to let his otaku side show by using Goku’s signature...
Collectors Are Driving Up PSP And Nintendo DS Game Prices In Japan
11.8.2021
While the Nintendo DS and the PlayStation Portable’s 2004 release seems so recent, that was a skin-wrinkling seventeen years ago. At almost two decades old, soon both handhelds will be considered retro.Read more
Report: Balan Wonderworld Creator Yuji Naka Is No Longer With Square Enix
4.6.2021
Yuji Naka, former Sonic Team head and recent creator of the platformer Balan Wonderworld, is no longer with Square Enix, according to reports in Sonic Stadium and IGN. He apparently departed the company in the twilight of April.Read more