Square Enix has announced that its recently released NieR Re[in]carnation has already been downloaded 10 million times. This already extraordinary figure made all the more incredible by the fact the mobile spin-off has been on the market fo...

Taito and Natsume announced this morning that the revitalized sequel to SNES classic KiKi KaiKai: Nazo no Kuro Mantle - known in the west as Pocky & Rocky - will launch on PS4 and Nintendo Switch this fall. The new adventure has been of...

Juro Watari, creator of the exhilarating mech-fighting series Cyber Troopers Virtual-On, has announced that he is leaving Sega after almost three decades of working alongside the studio. Watari announced his departure on Twitter, thanking S...

Following a glut of rumors and reports, Sony Japan has stated that it is currently in the process of "re-organizing" Japan Studio, Sony's oldest and longest-running in-house game developer. Word of the restructure first came via an in-depth...

[Update: As expected, The Caligula Effect 2 will release outside of Japan later this year. NIS America will be handling localization and publishing duties. It's also giving the game a pretty sick-looking special edition that includes a...

I don't need this kind of wholesome emotion this early in the morning. But regardless, Nippon Ichi Software has released the first trailer for Sayaka Oda's new adventure title The Wicked King and The Noble Hero, which launches in Japan this...

Masaaki Yamagiwa, who worked as producer on the critically acclaimed Bloodborne as well as VR title Deracine and apocalyptic survival game Tokyo Jungle, has announced that they will be leaving Sony Interactive Entertainment Japan at the end...

Only a few days after its initial launch, Square Enix's mobile title NieR Re[in]carnation is already a smash hit in Japan, having surpassed an incredible five million downloads since its February 18 release on iOS and Android. The haunting ...

[Update: As expected, NIS has indeed announced The Wicked King and The Noble Hero, a new RPG from Sayaka Oda, the brain behind 2019's The Liar Princess and The Blind Prince. The new game will launch on PS4 and Switch in Japan June 24.] Alwa...

[Update: The PC port of El Shaddai is coming to Steam "soon." Here are some early screenshots.] If you never got around to playing the hidden gem El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron on PS3 or Xbox 360, you might have better luck on PC. ...

Square Enix continues to keep the world updated as to the ongoing sales of its post-apocalyptic adventure NieR: Automata. As of February 2021, exactly four years since the title's initial launch, the tale of 2B and her android brethren has ...

Are you adequately prepared to rock? In something of a foregone conclusion, Arc System Works has revealed that GG veteran and hard rockin' babe I-No is the final character joining the release roster of incoming fighter Guilty Gear Strive. I...

One of the most low-key, yet most popular, reveals of Wednesday's Nintendo Direct presentation was the announcement that two '80s classics from the Famicom Detective Club would be making the leap westward, officially localized in the U.S. f...

Rumors are circulating that Konami is finally doing something significant again with Silent Hill. While the forsaken series has drawn will-they-won't-they speculation for years, it's hard not to daydream about what could and should be, no ...

A host of Japan's greatest and most influential fighting game developers will gather together once again this month to hold a second Japan Fighting Game Publisher Roundtable discussion, the first of which was held in July 2020 as part of en...

PlatinumGames' NieR: Automata continues on its relentless quest to become one of the most merchandised titles in gaming history. The latest addition to the dystopian sci-fi series premium range of toys, figures, and models is this sweet rep...

A Japanese man has been arrested by authorities for allegedly generating and selling hacked critters from Nintendo Switch release Pokémon Sword & Shield. The 23-year-old was apprehended in Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture after bein...

Nippon Ichi Software has released the opening movie to its upcoming murder mystery RPG Tantei Bokumetsu, (literally "Detective Eliminator"), which the publisher recently revealed following a series of strange and unsettling teasers. The hyp...

For anyone currently enjoying the anime adventure of the recent Nintendo Switch release Atelier Ryza 2: Lost Legends and the Secret Fairy, prick up your ears, as publisher Koei Tecmo has unveiled the Atelier Mysterious Trilogy Deluxe Pack, ...

Fashion and Cyberpunk have always gone hand-in-cybernetic hand. And while we aren't quite in a place where we can replace our faces with super-cool, x-ray laser beams, Cyberpunk 2077 fans can at least bag themselves several slick items of a...

Photo credit: @yamato_1234 It's been almost three months since the launch of Sony's brand new gaming platform, PlayStation 5, but as a hapless Japanese retailer found out this weekend, the customer drive to bag the next-gen hardware remains...

Fans of Nintendo's mythic series Mother, (or EarthBound for most of y'all), will be able to spend the coming weekend kicking back to some of the 1989 adventure's charming score, as the Mother Music Revisited album is now available to stream...

PlatinumGames has expanded a little on its teasing fifth reveal, which was added to the "Platinum4" website. The Bayonetta developer notes that the mystery announcement is definitely "smaller in scale" than the studio's previous reveals but...

Publisher City Connection continues on its quest to bring developer Psikyo string of shmup classics to the PC platform. Next on the agenda is colorful hybrid title Gunbarich, which first launched in Japanese arcades back in 2001. Combining ...

I love rubbernecking video game collector's edition sets that are as outlandish as they are expensive. Resident Evil Village's Japan-only Collector's Edition Version Z is one such extravagant example. This is the ultimate edition of Villag...