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Award-winning Japanese adult game developer directly hit by credit card restrictions as VISA payment gets suspended on their web store
Payment processors have been one-sidedly suspending payment options (most often credit cards like Visa and MasterCard) on Japanese platforms hosting mature content at an increasing pace since last ...
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Street Fighter 6’s Mai update adds improvements to the World Tour Master system
In addition to Mai Shiranui coming to Street Fighter 6 in the game’s next big update, Capcom announced that it will be improving the World Tour mode; specifically the Masters section. After the update ...
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Individual charged 20 million yen in damages for illegally selling sexually explicit images of VTubers
Japanese VTuber agency Vspo! has revealed that it has reached a 20-million-yen settlement with an individual who is accused of selling sexually explicit images of VTubers affiliated with the agency ...
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Sega XD launches “brain rental” service, letting companies rent its game developers to brainstorm ideas and write up projects
Sega XD, Sega’s gamification subsidiary, has launched a peculiar new service that lets you “rent the brains” of professional game designers. Appropriately called Braintal, the platform and its concept ...
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PlatinumGames on Ninja Gaiden 4: We’re not making it for Team Ninja, we’re making it together with them
Last week, action game fans collectively fell out of their chairs when Team Ninja and PlatinumGames suddenly announced they’ve been working on Ninja Gaiden 4, a brand-new mainline entry set to release ...
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Manga Planet loses support from payment provider for providing mature content
On January 23, Manga Planet released a statement announcing that Irish-American payment provider Stripe cut ties with the online manga reading service due to its distribution of R18 content. Stripe ...
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Virtua Fighter doesn’t intend to compete with other popular fighting game franchises, but rather stand out as its own genre, according to dev
With the launch of Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. on Steam and the recent announcement of a brand-new mainline entry, Sega is gearing up for a much-needed reboot of its influential Virtua Fighter franchise ...
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Pokémon TCG Pocket issues warning against real money trades and data tampering
An official warning has been issued for Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket regarding measures that will be taken against inappropriate user behavior on the app. This proceeded the popular mobile game’s ...
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Why bring Virtua Fighter 5 to PC after all these years? Producer talks about Sega’s project to rekindle the franchise
Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. was released on PC (Steam) today. AUTOMATON spoke to Legacy Virtua Fighter Project producer Seiji Aoki to find out why the fighting game is coming to PC now, almost 19 years ...
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Toby Fox revealed as a composer for upcoming PC/Switch remaster of OFF
Publisher Fangamer and developer Mortis Ghost have revealed that some of the tracks in the upcoming OFF remaster will be composed by Deltarune and Undertale creator Toby Fox. The remaster of the ...
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Cloud and Aerith are not like brother and sister, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth’s director speaks out about misinterpretation of his statement
With Final Fantasy VII Rebirth making its PC debut today, AUTOMATON Japan recently sat down with the game’s director Naoki Hamaguchi. In this extended interview, Hamaguchi discussed recent ...
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Goro Majima isn’t actually that interesting on paper. It’s that voice and those moves that bring everything together, says RGG Studio’s head
There’s less than a month to go until the release of Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii, the Yakuza series’ latest spin-off title. The surprisingly big spin-off to Infinite Wealth sets a lot of ...