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Official AUTOMATON English account. Bringing video game and internet culture-related news from Japan!

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Kirby Air Riders appears to use Bandai Namco Studio’s new in-house engine, SOL-AVES

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November 10, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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Bakery management dungeon crawler RPG Aeruta fully launches on Steam, with new pet farming update

Aeruta will be 20% off until November 12
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November 7, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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Capcom publishes fan content guidelines, including rules against offensive fanart and commercial use (explained using Mega Man illustrations)
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November 5, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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Atelier Lulua: The Scion of Arland box art got heavily cropped because of “overly distracting horse”
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November 5, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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Undertale boss theme was heavily inspired by Persona 4, Toby Fox reveals

The project file was even named “persona4.flp"
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September 22, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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PS3 owner accidentally melts console trying to revive it with a lifehack, then finds out it actually works again
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September 11, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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Capcom replaces disqualified Street Fighter 6 art contest winning entry with its own art 
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August 26, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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Castlevania stage play draws unprecedented crowds of male visitors to Japan’s all-female Takarazuka theater
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August 19, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Epic Games launches trademark dispute against small Korean studio over the name “EPIDGames”

EPIDGames is anxious about legal proceedings potentially dragging on and placing a burden on the company
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August 7, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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ToHeart developer Aquaplus to be acquired by WWF Smack Down and EDF developer Yuke’s

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August 4, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Atelier Yumia’s Tekken 8 collaboration delivers with new quests, cosmetics, and Mana Surges (and delightful Heihachi wig)
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July 24, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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Interview: Meet the creepiest publisher in indie games. Critical Reflex are “midwives bringing monsters into the world,” by backing the projects no one else dares to touch
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June 24, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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Deltarune’s Tenna was created all the way back in 2016, but Toby Fox abandoned his “tremendously bad” 3D prototype
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June 23, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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Square Enix has hit its highest share price since the beginning of the year. This comes in response to activist investor 3D Investment Partners raising its stake to 10.01%

Full Story:
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June 17, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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Joint interview: Kinky horror game Saeko: Giantess Dating Sim was deeply inspired by Va-11 Hall-A, and Va-11 Hall's creator loves its "punk spirit"
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June 17, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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Brainwashing society into embracing furries. We ask Fuga: Melodies of Steel’s developers about their long history of furry-themed passion projects
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Everyone keeps quiet about it at first, but once they find out we’re working on furry games, they come and ask me “How can I get on that team?” Whether it’s within CyberConnect2 or on a global level, there’s this awareness that liking furries is very “out there.” However, that’s exactly what makes it worth pursuing for me. I really believe we can push it further into the mainstream.
May 29, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Japan’s government just dropped a huge free Minecraft map, and it’s cooler than you think
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May 23, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Neptunia developers thoroughly studied Returnal for their new hardcore TPS Scar-Lead Salvation

Game producer Hiroshi Aoki talked to us about how Returnal inspired and influenced the game design of Scar-Lead Salvation.

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May 22, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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Interview: Like a Dragon’s devs invest not only in debugging, but in developing “tools to prevent bugs,” like heat maps for VRAM consumption
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May 19, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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This TPS is brutally difficult because its sexy clothes damage system can’t work if players don’t get hit

We asked Scar-Lead Salvation producer Hiroshi Aoki about the game's wild origin story
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May 16, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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The open-world survival game Omega Crafter turns programming into gameplay, but it lets you code as much or as little as you want to
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May 15, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii director intentionally blocked out influence of games like Sea of Thieves, Assassin's Creed and Skull and Bones
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“I think it’s fine for other members of the team to play [other games with similar themes] and use them as inspiration, but as the person making the final decisions, if I were to get used to how naval combat works in other games, my sense of what feels right for Yakuza players – who might have never played those types of games before – could get distorted.”
May 14, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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Death Stranding 2: On the Beach emphasizes combat and player choice with a game system shaped by feedback from the first game
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May 9, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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How do Like a Dragon games come out so fast? One of RGG Studio’s secrets is a highly efficient testing and debugging cycle that starts as soon as development does
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April 29, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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Interview: The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy’s devs needed players to think they were “completely out of their minds” to compete in the game market
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April 23, 2025 at 9:07 AM