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Sanrio, AVM, Lab and MomentSQ are teaming up to take Aggretsuko, based on the hit Aggretsuko Retsuko on Netflix, to mobile gaming. Aggretsuko the mobile game will be a player-driven narrati…
The government of Japan is selecting famed Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto as the country’s latest Person of Cultural Merit. “I’m thankful that light is being shined upon the medium of games.,” M…
Gaming auteur and famous-friend-haver Hideo Kojima is putting yet another one of his buddies into Death Stranding. On last night’s Conan, host Conan O’Brien revealed that he went to vi…
Anuman Interactive announced today that it is changing its name to Microids, a move signalling a big year for the French game publisher. Microids will also be opening an office in Japan, a count…
classic in-app purchases (IAPs) — quickly made its way into pretty much all mobile games in Japan. Growing stagnation in the performance of gacha games is indicative of Japanese gamers losi…
Dr. Kawashima’s Brain Training for Nintendo Switch is heading to Europe. Nintendo confirmed that the Brain Age followup is launching January 3 in that region. Nintendo previously announced …
Mobile measurement firm Adjust has acquired Force Operation X (F.O.X), an advertising effectiveness measurement tool for smartphone apps, from Japanese marketing agency CyberZ. The move is Adjus…
And it has created the $30 million Gumi Cryptos fund to invest in blockchain games. Kunimitsu: Right now a big problem for VR games is that the concurrent user numbers are too low. The big …
Dragalia Lost, Nintendo’s only mobile game that isn’t built on existing franchises like Mario or Fire Emblem, has made $106 million in its first year, according to market analyst Sensor Tower. D…
The answer is “yes,” suggests top Japanese carrier NTT Docomo, which today announced successful completion of an impressive stress test: a multi-base station handoff of 5G signals to a device on…
