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Japanese developers on Steam can’t receive revenue from adult games due to Japanese banks blocking transfers
Japanese developers of adult-oriented games on Steam are having their money transfers blocked by Japanese banks- but why is ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii is going to be “our best game yet” with a completely different playstyle, reveal devs
During the Majima Maji Festival fan meeting held in Tokyo on January 25, Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio representative and Like a Dragon series executive producer Yokoyama Masayoshi, game producer Ryosuke Horii ...
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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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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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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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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 ...