There's some positive but mainly negative news from
Japanese games giant GREE which is set to cut jobs in North America as it completes the removal of Openfeint from its business in the region.
The Japanese games giant announced that its highly - anticipated NX console will launch globally in March 2017, with the latest Legend of Zelda game slated to arrive for both the NX and Wii U.
Piracy is a major concern for Nintendo, and
the Japanese game giant has been fiercely protective of its characters, but this policy usually doesn't affect people who legally purchased its games.
At E3 2011 in June during Sony's press conference,
the Japanese game giant announced a 3D TV bundle that included a copy of Insomniac Games» Resistance 3.
But
the Japanese game giant still had a surprise for us, revealing a brand - new RPG title for the Nintendo 3DS.
Not exact matches
Last year, the Chinese Internet
giant Tencent bought Supercell, the Finnish maker of the popular mobile
game «Clash of Clans» for $ 10.2 billion from the
Japanese group SoftBank.
Attendance and television audiences for
Japanese games have plummeted — TV ratings for the
Giants, the most popular team, are the lowest in 36 years — and there's a growing worry that the
Japanese leagues will be drained of talent as top players flock to the States.
The
game brings together characters from the rosters of three
Japanese gaming
giants: Bandai Namco, Capcom, and Sega.
Instead of a typical flashy presentation at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, the
Japanese gaming
giant opted to showcase several
games for its Wii U system during a brief Tuesday presentation at its booth on the show floor of the gaming industry's annual trade show.
Sugoi (which means «cool» in
Japanese) Crates usually contain
giant Japanese candies, Tokyo - exclusive toys, just - released gadgets, and brand new
game consoles and
games.
Mech Gladiator — 80msp An old style
Japanese robot fighting
game, play as the
giant robot and you fight even bigger robots and monsters, with plenty of power ups to help, this is a bit of old school fun and a truly beautiful indie
game
The massive stock surge video
game giant Nintendo saw after announcing two major initiatives with Apple this week didn't last very long, but the
Japanese company's shares were still strong Thursday compared to its 52 - week low.
It's a perfect B - movie of a
game: you grab two of your favorite guns, lock and load, and dive into
Japanese suburbia, where the
game's creators then throw at you about 5000 identical, bargain - basement stock - 3D - model spiders, or ants, or
giant robots, or UFOs.
Since the series kicked off on the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in 1985, Mario
games has been among the
Japanese tech
giant's most important titles.
- the team has been adding weapons one by one because they want the same amount of attention for each weapon - the team learned that when they added two new weapons at once, one would end up getting overshadowed by the other - there were more new stages than returning stages because bringing back old stages would have little surprise - since they want to satisfy both new and returning players, they changed the order of stage additions - there weren't any major direction changes in balancing from Splatoon 1 - there have been more pattern combinations between weapons and stages, so there was more involved to balance them all - matchmaking is handled by getting 8 players with similar rank points, and then they're split by weapons - the rank point gap between S + players is bigger than ordinary players - only about one in 1,000 active players are in the S +40 to S +50 region in Ranked Battles - there's even less than one in 10 players that reach S +, while 80 % of the overall player base are in A or less - about 90 % of S + ranked players are within a + / -150 hidden ranked power range - rock was the popular genre in Splatoon, so they tried changing it for the sequel - they prioritized making good background music first before forming the band to play that music - the design team would make the CD jacket - like artwork afterwards - due to this, the band members would often change; some getting added while some others removed - Off the Hook is an exception, as they first decided they would be a DJ and rapper along with their visuals first - Off the Hook's song came afterwards - In Splatoon street fashion was the trend, but in Splatoon 2 they tried adding more uniqueness - the aim was to add Flow with ethnic clothing and Jelfonzo with high fashion - all Jellyfish in this world are born by splitting, which means Jelfonzo was born by splitting from Jelonzo - Jellyfish are like a hive mind - when they hold a wedding ceremony, they're just simply holding the ceremony - Jelonzo and Jelfonzo start gaining their own consciences so they can speak - Flow used her working holiday to go on a trip before reaching Inkopolis Square - during the trip, she met the owner of Headspace - the owner liked her, so she got hired to work there - Bisk has a unique way of speaking: anastrophe - the team tried to express him as an adult man - they made him into a
giant spider crab because they wanted someone with high posture - he came from a cold country and broke up with his girlfriend to join a band - just like Flow, he became attracted to squids - Crusty Sean finally has his own shop, but he opened it because he's someone who follows the current trends - one of the trends happens to be people opening their own shops - drink tickets aren't stacked, but the probability is higher than a single brand - the music in Inkopolis Square changes depending on the player's location - sounds contribute to creating atmosphere in the location - the song at front of Grizzco Industries had an atmosphere that feels like some smell can radiate from the
game screen - as for Salmon Run, they imagined it as a
Japanese restaurant outside Japan that is not run by a
Japanese person - each time the player moves between the shops, the
game uses an arrange shift that shows the personality of each inhabitant - the arrangement in Shella Fresh is related to Bisk's guitar and mystery files that describe his past - with the Squid Sisters moved to Hero Mode, Off the Hook was put in charge in guiding battles and festivals - Bomb Rush Blush has an orchestra «because it would sound like the final boss» - the team wanted to express the feel of the story's real culprit with this music - the probability of each event occurring in Salmon Run is different - there are no specific requirements, meaning they're picked randomly - this means it's possible for fog to appear three times in a row - the Salmon have different appearances based on the environment they're raised in - if the environment is harsher, they would become large salmon - Steelheads and Maws have big bodies, while Scrappers and Steel Eels have high intelligence - Salmons basically wield kitchenware, but everybody else has a virtue in fighting to actually cook the Salmons - Grill is the ultimate form of this - when Salmons are fighting to the death, they can feel the same sense of unity - they would be one with the world if they were eaten by other creatures, and they also fight for the pride of their race - MakoMart is based on a large supermarket in America - the update also took place on Black Friday in America, which was why Squids are buying a lot of things in the trailer - Arowana Mall looks like it has more passages because there are changes in tenants and also renovation work - Walleye Warehouse has no changes at all, because the team wanted to have at least one map that stayed intact - the only thing different in this map is the graffiti, which is based on the winner of Famitsu's Squid Fashion Contest - all members in the band Ink Theory graduated from music university - they are well - educated girls who also do aggressive things - the band members wearing neckties are respecting the Hightide Era from the prequel - the team will continue adding weapons and stages for a year, and Splatfests for two years - the team will also continue to make more updates including balancing
Earlier this month the
Japanese giant rolled out a series of NFC - enabled cards for its newest Animal Crossing
game.
Even Andrew House, global chief executive of Sony Interactive Entertainment, the video
game division of the
Japanese electronics
giant, had doubts about how quickly virtual reality would be embraced by the mass market.
We all know and love Nintendo, the creator of various beloved franchises like Super Mario, Metroid and Legend of Zelda, and 2017 was a
game changing year for the
Japanese gaming
giant.
Nintendo doesn't launch original properties lightly, so any
game based on entirely new characters and play concepts coming straight from the heart of the
Japanese giant's internal development program is worth some attention.
Here are all of the
games from the
Japanese giant that made the cut:...
Credit: Tom's Guide The
Japanese giant has decided to push back the launch of 64 GB
game cartridges for the Nintendo Switch to 2019, The Wall Street Journal is reporting, citing people who claim to have knowledge of its plans.
With the Nintendo Switch, the
Japanese gaming
giants are once again releasing a device they hope will come everywhere with use just like our
Game Boys once did.
A late port of the
Japanese game released in 2008, White Knight Chronicles garnered a few votes from those of us enchanted with the idea of a little guy transforming into a
giant knight and laying waste to everything he sees.
Long before Housemarque had taken over the voxelized twin - stick shooter space, a small
Japanese outfit called Aicom developed Viewpoint, a
game where you collect power - ups and fight
giant enemy crabs while a wall of fire chases you from behind.
Nintendo has announced an official partnership with
Japanese mobile and online specialists DeNA, a tech
giant that rose to its prominence on the strength of its smartphone
games.
Undead Darlings also boasts a bit of an impressive staff behinds its undead facade, as both of the Mr Tired
Games» founders have worked at gaming
giant Nippon Ichi Software America and thus have more than their fair share of knowledge of cutesy
Japanese - styled
games.
Harkening back to original manga series» such as Berserk and Claymore, the emergence of
giant weapons was something of a small yet growing troupe within the
Japanese manga / anime / video
game scene.
Not only did these
Japanese games introduce new gameplay concepts, they also reflected the culture surrounding their creation, introducing players from all over the world to new ideas like mecha, aka, and
giant robots.
games ™ discovers how the Stamper brothers unlocked the door to the
Japanese gaming
giant, and talks to the man who provided the key.
Analysts and
gamers alike are already speculating on when the
Japanese giant will elect to launch the inevitable successor — the PlayStation 5.
As we found out before, the creators of the
game at
Giant Sparrow have been inspired by
Japanese ghost stories and aim for the
game to be «mysterious, unsettling and strange.»
Miitomo is one of five smartphone
games that Nintendo is developing in partnership with DeNA, a
giant in the
Japanese mobile
game market.
Nintendo has announced massive price - cuts for its 3DS - a console not selling as well as the
Japanese gaming
giant might have liked - but also casually dropped in that virtual NES and virtual
Game Boy Advance console titles will become available in the... Read more
Lost Sphear — Review PS4, PC, Switch PG Despite their occasionally questionable naming sense (and in the case of Lost Sphear, their spelling), Square Enix has been a
giant of the
Japanese Role Playing
Game (JRPG) genre since the early days of gaming.
Ever since it first debuted on the original Gameboy in the late 1990s, Pokemon has been one of the most prominent franchises in the Nintendo universe — no easy feat, considering that the
Japanese gaming
giant was already home to Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda, Kirby, Metroid and many more of the most popular classic
games and characters the medium has ever produced.
«One thing that we cared the most about for «Summer Lesson» was to create a sense that a character is truly there,» said Jun Tamaoki, a developer behind the software by
Japanese toy and
game giant Bandai Namco, told AFP.
Nintendo skyrocketed Thursday after the
Japanese gaming
giant and Apple announced that an exclusive Super Mario
game will be available on iPhones later this year.
There's rarely a
game that highlights how a company can bizarrely be so ahead yet at the same time behind its competitors, but in 2015 this is precisely where the
Japanese giants stand.
TOKYO, April 1 (Reuters)-
Japanese online
game maker DeNA Co Ltd on Wednesday said it wants its new partnership with gaming
giant Nintendo Co Ltd to yield titles that bring in over 3 billion yen ($ 25.02 million) a month.
Continuing Nintendo's ongoing mobile endeavors, the company has teamed up with
Japanese mobile gaming
giant Cygames to produce a new action role - playing
game called Dragalia Lost.
It has often been described as the
Japanese gaming
giant's take on The Sims, that enormously popular Electronic Arts
game that lets players indulge in seemingly mundane activities — picking out outfits, going to work, coming home, going on dates, getting married.
Giant Sparrow also shared a message on the
game's
Japanese site, which you can read in English on their blog.
When it comes to the console's success, this
Japanese gaming
giant is playing the long
game.
They won't get a different version of the
game, but anytime a developer makes a
game for a Nintendo console it's noteworthy, since the
Japanese video
game giant has struggled to get quality third - party titles on its platforms.
«Our
game is a collection of tales that are meant to feel mysterious, unsettling and strange, which is a feeling
Japanese artists seem to capture really well,» writes
Giant Sparrow.
Welcoming current - gen console and PC players into 2017 is Capcom's highly anticipated triple A survival horror video
game Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, which, the
Japanese video
game giant has now revealed, will allow players to once again experience a scaling difficulty level that dynamically adjusts to match players» in -
game performance.
Whether or not the
game will prove to be a financial success for the
Japanese gaming
giant via in - app purchases remains to be seen.
We had Genji, a video
game based around «
Japanese history,» that pitted
gamers against
giant mutant crabs.
Japanese gaming
giant Nintendo on Tuesday announced an all - new «Animal Crossing»
game is slated to release on iOS and Android in late November, bringing with it a condensed version of the franchise's popular elements.
Nintendo of America's official twitter account has revealed that the
Japanese gaming
giant plans to release the SNES Classic, a tiny version of the Super Nintendo that includes pre-installed
games, on September 29th, 2017.