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Two more major video game shows — the Tokyo Game Show and Paris Games Week — have been canceled thanks to the pandemic, but the giant Shanghai expo ChinaJoy will take place as planned for July 31 to …
Nintendo is telling partner developers it’s not going to hold one of its Nintendo Direct video events in June. But complications brought about from Japan’s work-from-home order as part…
Jam City, the company behind Disney Frozen Adventures and Cookie Jam, has launched its popular match-3 game Disney Emoji Blitz in Japan, the second-largest mobile game market. Disney E…
Nintendo hasn’t announced a lot of first-party releases for 2020, but one game that we’ve known is coming for a while is Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition. Xenoblade Chronicles is a …
Sony announced today that Ghosts of Tsushima will come out for PlayStation 4 on June 26. Ghosts of Tsushima is a samurai action-adventure game from Sucker Punch Studios, the developer behin…
Sega announced today that Sonic the Hedgehog 2 and Puyo Puyo 2 are coming to the Nintendo Switch on February 20. These are coming as part of the Sega Ages program, Sega’s initiative to release c…
(Reuters) — Japan’s Nidec plans to more than triple its revenue over the next five years by focusing on electric vehicle powertrains and buying specialists in motor technologies, two people familiar …
Switch salesAs of December, the Nintendo Switch has sold 52.5 million to date, with software hitting 310.6 million copies sold as of December 31, 2019. The Nintendo 3DS has sold 75.7 million uni…
(Reuters) – SoftBank Chief Executive Masayoshi Son said on Tuesday Japan should make artificial intelligence (AI) a mandatory subject for college entrance exams, to counter the yawning gap with the U…
Sucker Punch’s Ghost of Tsushima will debut in the summer of 2020 on Sony’s PlayStation 4 console. The game for Sony’s PlayStation 4 got a lot of air time on Thursday night with the revelation o…
