Co-developed by heavyweights of
the Japanese gaming industry — Namco Bandai, Sega, Capcom and Monolithsoft — Project X Zone 2 is a fan service filled Strategy RPG romp that provides more laughs than it does challenge, largely in part to a liberal localisation and self - aware sense of humour.
Among the increasingly struggling
Japanese gaming industry, a beacon of hope has been shining brightly for a few years now.
Tomonobu Itagaki, the unfailingly modest creator of the Dead or Alive series and the upcoming Devil's Third, is currently despairing about the state of
the Japanese gaming industry.
In an interview with EDGE magazine, Itagaki was asked if
the Japanese gaming industry was dying... and he couldn't agree more.
We are making a rich, immersive game that will set a new standard of excellence for
the Japanese gaming industry, all without major studio backing!
Metal Gear Solid luminary Kideo Kojima has spoken out about the current state of
the Japanese gaming industry while revealing he is currently actively working on four games; one that will attempt to utilise the Western approach to «rule-less» gaming in order to crack the lucrative English - speaking market.
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The book itself is not only a must - have for everybody interested in gaming culture, game design or
the Japanese gaming industry, but also a great way to remember when you wasted your free time (and your coins) by playing Super Mario Bros. or Donkey Kong.»
[Author's Note: Two years ago I meticulously picked apart two of the biggest franchises in
the Japanese gaming industry, Final Fantasy and the Legend of Zelda.
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For this game, artists from many other parts of
the Japanese gaming industry were commissioned to contribute their own creative work.
Xbox has been a non-factor for
the Japanese gaming industry for a long time.
Not exact matches
Now, the
Japanese online
gaming industry is getting ready to fully embrace bitcoin.
Japanese game development has taken a back seat to more popular western developers in recent years, but if this year's TGS is any indication of where Japan's videogames
industry is headed, we're looking at a long and exciting next - generation in
gaming.
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.
Originally dubbed the «Mega Drive»» on the
Japanese market, the 16 - bit
gaming console after receiving a new moniker stateside, triumphed above other systems with sharper graphics, higher resolution,
industry - best animation and a slew of unparalleled
gaming titles.
Hyperdimension Neptunia is a rather new
Japanese roleplaying series that takes a play on the console wars that plague the real life game
industry, Many of the game's characters are named after — in one way or another — the various consoles released throughout the history of
gaming.
Visual novel games have a mixed reputation in the
gaming industry, as they're mostly considered
Japanese games for
Japanese gamers, although quite a few have managed to find success in Western markets, depending on their themes or content.
A giant in the
Japanese video
gaming industry, the company started restructuring itself and has been slowly changing the Konami we know and love.
Not just SEGA, but most
Japanese gaming companies have a hard time finding their foothold in the
industry due to the rise in mobile
gaming in Japan and the lack of console sales in that region.
The iconic
Japanese game company will host a three - day event at this year's E3, one of the
gaming industry's biggest confabs, starting on June 13.
He's a major talent in the
industry, although perhaps his stature is less than it was since he made some rather inflammatory comments regarding how he believes that the
Japanese gaming development
industry is finished and that he hates his job.
Eiji Aonuma, a famous
Japanese video game designer for Nintendo, also received the Lifetime Achievement award for his contribution to the
gaming industry, «Legend of Zelda».
Nintendo, the
Japanese gaming giant behind the Mario franchise, is a stoic, slow - moving video game developer and hardware manufacturer that rarely moves its business practices in line with the broader, faster - moving video game
industry.