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Square Enix to relocate to Shibuya News Mar 7th, 2023

Square Enix to relocate to Shibuya

Move won't be taking place until at least November 2024

Report: Japan's PC games market sees huge growth News Nov 7th, 2022

Report: Japan's PC games market sees huge growth

Between 2018 and 2021, the sector "roughly doubled"

NetEase Games establishes new Japanese studio GPTRACK50 News Nov 1st, 2022

NetEase Games establishes new Japanese studio GPTRACK50

Developer focused on original IP

Tokyo Game Show 2022 will be a physical event News Mar 1st, 2022

Tokyo Game Show 2022 will be a physical event

First time it has taken place since 2019

Sega sets up shop in Sapporo Job News Jan 11th, 2022

Sega sets up shop in Sapporo

Japanese firm establishes development hub outside of Tokyo

Capcom wants to make PC its main games platform News Oct 4th, 2021

Capcom wants to make PC its main games platform

Firm wants the hardware to make up half of its total sales by the end of 2022

SNK appoints Sega vet Matsubara as CEO Job News Jul 30th, 2021

SNK appoints Sega vet Matsubara as CEO

The new exec left the Sonic firm 12 months ago

Yazuka spin-off Judgment series might end over talent dispute News Jul 13th, 2021

Yazuka spin-off Judgment series might end over talent dispute

And it sure looks like it's never coming to PC

Square Enix shoots down acquisition rumours News Apr 19th, 2021

Square Enix shoots down acquisition rumours

Follows report from Bloomberg saying it was

Ghostwire Tokyo creative director Nakamura is opening new studio Job News Mar 24th, 2021

Ghostwire Tokyo creative director Nakamura is opening new studio

The Tango vet wants to create a "game full of dark jokes"

Konami restructures its development teams, isn't dropping out of video games News Jan 26th, 2021

Konami restructures its development teams, isn't dropping out of video games

Japanese giant dissolves its three production divisions

Phil Spencer doesn't think Xbox is buying a Japanese studio News Nov 12th, 2020

Phil Spencer doesn't think Xbox is buying a Japanese studio

Microsoft's games boss says reports that firm is on the hunt for a developer in the region are "not accurate"

Microsoft apparently eying Japanese studio acquisitions News Nov 9th, 2020

Microsoft apparently eying Japanese studio acquisitions

Xbox firm has reportedly approached developers big and small about a deal

Cyberpunk 2077 to be censored in Japan News Jul 1st, 2020

Cyberpunk 2077 to be censored in Japan

Sexual and violent content has been removed or tweaked for the region

Tencent snaps up 20% stake in Japanese games firm Marvelous News May 26th, 2020

Tencent snaps up 20% stake in Japanese games firm Marvelous

“In comparison to Western companies, there is a widening abyss in terms of development capability and financial clout"

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