At CEDEC 2026, Nintendo explained how Donkey Kong Bananza's QA team kept fun exploits as features, planned for sequence breaks, and embedded testers in the dev team.
Famitsu's 40th-anniversary Miyamoto interview, read whole: Nintendo has been feeling like a preservation society, and film scripts now drive the release calendar.
Japan's Patent Office has issued a final rejection of Nintendo and The Pokemon Company's application for a touchscreen creature-capture patent. The decisive prior art was a 2013 fan-made 3D Pokemon video, and the examiner dismissed Nintendo's argument that a copyright-infringing video cannot count. Here is what it means for the Palworld lawsuit, fact separated from speculation.
Loss-making mobile-game studio KLab has signed an MOU to bring an undisclosed partner's counter-drone system to the UAE. Inside a game company's pivot, UAE royal money, and Japan's neutral-broker play.
Japan's METI selected 27 anime and game projects under its IP360 content subsidy, covering half of production costs up to ¥1.5 billion each. We break down how the program works, the backlash over funding companies like DeNA, and how Japan stacks up against South Korea and the US.
Nintendo published its 86th shareholder meeting Q&A. Beyond the stock-price headlines: Miyamoto says IP runs at nearly 100% profit versus 30% console margins, the DS/3DS backward-compatibility dodge, game-preservation friction, My Number ID checks for Pokemon cards, and the India and China playbooks.
Sony will stop producing discs for new PlayStation games from January 2028, going download-only. Here's what it means for physical culture, the used-game market, ownership, and how it compares to Xbox, PC and Nintendo.
Shueisha, the publisher behind ONE PIECE, revealed Wild Wild Eden, an original game that uses none of its manga IP. Co-developed with a Malaysian studio, this open-world survival RPG treats monsters as family, not tools. Steam Early Access is planned for spring 2027. Here's what sets it apart in the crowded post-Palworld field.
The first theatrical trailer for Sekiro: No Defeat is here. We break down the hand-drawn 2D look, the story of Wolf and Kuro, the no-AI pledge, Ryuichi Sakamoto's theme song, and how (and where) the rest of the world can watch it on Crunchyroll.
Nintendo's stock has fallen more than 50% since its August 2025 peak, even after a record fiscal year. We unpack why, for an overseas investor audience: the Switch 2 price hike, a softer FY27 outlook, and how Nintendo stacks up against US gaming names like Roblox, Take-Two, and EA.
Sony Pictures is investing $100M in Cosm, the Sphere-like immersive dome where Dodgers fans watched the World Series as if standing on the field. Here's the deal, the tech, and why Japanese baseball fans already know the place.