WODAN, a Japanese studio founded by veteran game designers Kenichi Iwao and Tatsuya Yoshikawa, has announced Shinonome, a roguelike game based around the concept of a haunted house from the Edo period ...

Travel to Japan for an inside look at Japan's game culture and industry. Visit Japanese gaming studios and meet professionals working in the field. Explore how the Japanese gaming industry has ...

Fix up an old house, make the yard nice, grow your own crops, and become self-sufficient. View the cherry blossoms in the spring; Attend the festival in the summer; Eat roasted sweet potatoes in the ...

Ghostwire: Tokyo is the new game from Tango Gameworks, the same team that worked on the classic Resident Evil franchise and the fantastic Evil Within series. Instead of a follow-up to their survival ...

Success as an indie developer is tough. For every game that finds critical and commercial acclaim another ten projects fail to make a profit for the creators who put years of their lives into their ...

Square, Enix, and Game Arts: 3 origin stories from Japan's PC boom, from inside the Game Preservation Society's archive. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

These days, game consoles are barely disguised computers that play mostly the same games you can get on your PC at home. Back in the 1990s, though, the game console was still a fresh and changing ...

On 14th June, Tango Gameworks employees had a pizza party. It was the studio's final day following the announcement of Microsoft's decision to close the studio behind games like Ghostwire Tokyo and ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Rhythm games are a unique product of the video game world that combines music with gameplay. If ...

As reported by Automaton, a survey conducted by the Computer Entertainment Supplier’s Association (CESA) during June and July found that 51% of Japanese game companies are using AI in some capacity.

When Xbox debuted in 2001, it was a newcomer to a scene dominated by Japanese-made games and consoles. At that time, Sega, Nintendo and Sony were household names to anyone who’d ever touched a ...

A recent call by New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn to ban a Japanese computer game in which players stalk and rape women on subways is drawing attention to cultural differences between the ...