...especially the one that YOU like so much you decide to break your gacha game abstinence. Yes, I'm still annoyed over Valkyrie Anatomia, and that technically lasted five years.
More than 70% of gacha and live-service games in Japan get discontinued before their third year, gacha game researcher finds
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More than 70% of gacha and live-service games in Japan get discontinued before their third year, gacha game researcher finds - AUTOMATON WEST
According a database recording almost 2,200 different live-service games, more than 70% of titles ended services before their third year.
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November 18, 2025 at 2:35 AM
...especially the one that YOU like so much you decide to break your gacha game abstinence. Yes, I'm still annoyed over Valkyrie Anatomia, and that technically lasted five years.
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It's honestly a miracle when a game even gets out of preproduction. When the creator of one of the last decade's biggest hits is having stuff get canned before announcement, just imagine what it's like for everyone else
NieR: Automata creator Yoko Taro says he’s actually been working on a lot of projects recently, it’s just that they got cancelled midway
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NieR: Automata creator Yoko Taro says he’s actually been working on a lot of projects recently, it’s just that they got cancelled midway - AUTOMATON WEST
NieR series creator Yoko Taro reveals that he's hasn't been able to announce any projects due to them getting cancelled midway.
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November 18, 2025 at 2:22 AM
It's honestly a miracle when a game even gets out of preproduction. When the creator of one of the last decade's biggest hits is having stuff get canned before announcement, just imagine what it's like for everyone else
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In hearing of the passing of Rebecca Heineman, I thought it would be worth sharing this wonderful interview she did on @retronauts.bsky.social:
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retronauts.com/article/1167...
Episode 211 explores the career of Rebecca Heineman
A whirlwind overview of a legendary programmer's work.
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November 17, 2025 at 11:20 PM
In hearing of the passing of Rebecca Heineman, I thought it would be worth sharing this wonderful interview she did on @retronauts.bsky.social:
retronauts.com/article/1167...
retronauts.com/article/1167...
I wish Lenore Zann was still in the Canadian Parliament so she could make this noise when voting.
November 17, 2025 at 12:14 AM
I wish Lenore Zann was still in the Canadian Parliament so she could make this noise when voting.
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Rebecca Heineman @burgerbecky.bsky.social needs to be transfered by helicopter to a medical center where they can better treat her cancer, which means her gofundme needs $20k more. please give to support this trans game dev elder if you can!
Donate to Help Rebecca Ann Heineman Fight Aggressive Cancer, organized by Rebecca Heineman
I’m Rebecca Ann Heineman. The very first video game champion, creat… Rebecca Heineman needs your support for Help Rebecca Ann Heineman Fight Aggressive Cancer
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November 15, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Rebecca Heineman @burgerbecky.bsky.social needs to be transfered by helicopter to a medical center where they can better treat her cancer, which means her gofundme needs $20k more. please give to support this trans game dev elder if you can!
I like a lot of things about Vice: Project Doom, including its laser whip! For a bonus, here's what might be the most unintentionally filthy line in an NES game.
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November 15, 2025 at 3:45 AM
I like a lot of things about Vice: Project Doom, including its laser whip! For a bonus, here's what might be the most unintentionally filthy line in an NES game.
www.kidfenris.com/2025/10/vice...
www.kidfenris.com/2025/10/vice...
Flag on the play. How did it get there?
November 14, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Flag on the play. How did it get there?
Stuff like this is why PlayStation-era Squaresoft might be my favorite game company. That's one hell of a lineup, covering all sorts of genres. I think the only game there that didn't draw me in was SaGa Frontier, and even that was interesting enough for me to play through Emelia's arc.
YOU BETTER WATCH OUT
YOU BETTER WATCH OUT
YOU BETTER WATCH OUT
YOU BETTER WATCH OUT
YOU BETTER WATCH OUT
November 13, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Stuff like this is why PlayStation-era Squaresoft might be my favorite game company. That's one hell of a lineup, covering all sorts of genres. I think the only game there that didn't draw me in was SaGa Frontier, and even that was interesting enough for me to play through Emelia's arc.
I really like how the Galactic Warriors promotional art gives off the same vibe as a mid-1980s robot toy you got cheap at the drugstore and didn't recognize as an anime mecha until you found it mixed in with your old Transformers twenty years later.
This week's Arcade Archives release is Konami's 1985 robot fighting game Galactic Warriors🤖
#ギャラクティックウォーリアーズ
#アーケードアーカイブス
#アケアカ
#ギャラクティックウォーリアーズ
#アーケードアーカイブス
#アケアカ
November 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I really like how the Galactic Warriors promotional art gives off the same vibe as a mid-1980s robot toy you got cheap at the drugstore and didn't recognize as an anime mecha until you found it mixed in with your old Transformers twenty years later.
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worth noting disc 130 actually has MORE & much earlier concept art for Mega Man Legends, including multiple pieces with untranslated artist comments.
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November 11, 2025 at 6:54 AM
worth noting disc 130 actually has MORE & much earlier concept art for Mega Man Legends, including multiple pieces with untranslated artist comments.
archive.gamehistory.org/folder/117ac...
archive.gamehistory.org/folder/117ac...
"Get OUTFOXIES or get OUT," I say to an arcade that's actually just a storage closet at a hotel which hasn't had a game room since 2006 and never updated their Yahoo entry's list of amenities.
If it does not happen at some time I will buy a hat & then eat it
Dweeb will appear on our screens in the future. I am sure of it🙏
Dweeb will appear on our screens in the future. I am sure of it🙏
November 10, 2025 at 6:50 PM
"Get OUTFOXIES or get OUT," I say to an arcade that's actually just a storage closet at a hotel which hasn't had a game room since 2006 and never updated their Yahoo entry's list of amenities.
Mole Mania is a game that speaks more and more to me the older I get.
November 9, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Mole Mania is a game that speaks more and more to me the older I get.
Technically Nintendo has Tetris Attack's original version on their online service (as Panel de Pon) but it doesn’t have the various Yoshi's Island characters, and that means it doesn't have this adorably disinterested yellow Yoshi.
November 9, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Technically Nintendo has Tetris Attack's original version on their online service (as Panel de Pon) but it doesn’t have the various Yoshi's Island characters, and that means it doesn't have this adorably disinterested yellow Yoshi.
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Can everyone please wish a happy 35th birthday to our definitely not insain but slightly evilly reprogrammed toothy overlord Cyber-Lip, who 1st appeared on the Neo Geo MVS back on November 7th 1990🎂
November 7, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Can everyone please wish a happy 35th birthday to our definitely not insain but slightly evilly reprogrammed toothy overlord Cyber-Lip, who 1st appeared on the Neo Geo MVS back on November 7th 1990🎂
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New blog post time!
This week's game is Strahl (aka Triad Stone), an interactive movie about a guy's journey to become king and change the world. This one's far more forgiving than other games like it and you get a lot of chances to change the story (48 endings!), so it's quite a pleasant ride:
This week's game is Strahl (aka Triad Stone), an interactive movie about a guy's journey to become king and change the world. This one's far more forgiving than other games like it and you get a lot of chances to change the story (48 endings!), so it's quite a pleasant ride:
Strahl
With the way it is now, Strahl is an incredibly chill time. It reminds me of the days where anime was a new novelty and my friends and I would scrounge up whatever VHSes and DVDs we could find of s…
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November 4, 2025 at 5:23 PM
New blog post time!
This week's game is Strahl (aka Triad Stone), an interactive movie about a guy's journey to become king and change the world. This one's far more forgiving than other games like it and you get a lot of chances to change the story (48 endings!), so it's quite a pleasant ride:
This week's game is Strahl (aka Triad Stone), an interactive movie about a guy's journey to become king and change the world. This one's far more forgiving than other games like it and you get a lot of chances to change the story (48 endings!), so it's quite a pleasant ride:
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BATTLE MANIA DAIGINJŌ
VIC TOKAI 1993
MEGA DRIVE
VIC TOKAI 1993
MEGA DRIVE
November 5, 2025 at 12:06 AM
BATTLE MANIA DAIGINJŌ
VIC TOKAI 1993
MEGA DRIVE
VIC TOKAI 1993
MEGA DRIVE
Damn, these unreleased games just keep coming. Dark Empires looks pretty cool, too!
Maybe this is all some secret competition to share previously canceled games. Anyone have Mariner's Run/Sea Dog or Shogun Maeda/Kabuto?
Maybe this is all some secret competition to share previously canceled games. Anyone have Mariner's Run/Sea Dog or Shogun Maeda/Kabuto?
Unreleased Sega Technical Institute RTS ‘Dark Empires’ Dumped and Preserved www.segadriven.com/2025/11/unre... #SegaTechicalInstitute #MegaDrive #DarkEmpires #SegaGenesis #Sega #SegaDriven #Gaming #RTS
November 3, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Damn, these unreleased games just keep coming. Dark Empires looks pretty cool, too!
Maybe this is all some secret competition to share previously canceled games. Anyone have Mariner's Run/Sea Dog or Shogun Maeda/Kabuto?
Maybe this is all some secret competition to share previously canceled games. Anyone have Mariner's Run/Sea Dog or Shogun Maeda/Kabuto?
First the Splatterhouse RPG and now a Mega Drive port of Virtual Lab? What's next? Distopia? Ultimate Journey? Super Dog Booby?
November 3, 2025 at 4:01 PM
First the Splatterhouse RPG and now a Mega Drive port of Virtual Lab? What's next? Distopia? Ultimate Journey? Super Dog Booby?
How Do You Talk To An Angel Cop
November 3, 2025 at 3:00 AM
How Do You Talk To An Angel Cop
Such was Woundwort's monument.
Last night I went to the Puca Festival in Trim, Ireland.
It's all fun and games until someone unleashes a giant demonic hare.
It's all fun and games until someone unleashes a giant demonic hare.
November 2, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Such was Woundwort's monument.
Wow, what a game that was.
November 2, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Wow, what a game that was.
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can't even remember the last FC dump as monumental as this one... the ROM's backed up here, btw splatterhouse.kontek.net/new.html
November 1, 2025 at 11:52 AM
can't even remember the last FC dump as monumental as this one... the ROM's backed up here, btw splatterhouse.kontek.net/new.html
This rules. I tried it out just a little and I love how even the townspeople look a bit deranged.
November 1, 2025 at 1:09 PM
This rules. I tried it out just a little and I love how even the townspeople look a bit deranged.
This is full of great stuff, from the Blade Runner reference to the president's ideas ("Americans love kanji!") to the origins of the "Gaiden" thing.
Holy shit. @shmuplations.bsky.social translated a massive thread of old tweets from Hideo Yoshizawa that goes deep into the NES Ninja Gaiden's development, including finally confirming the Castlevania influence shmuplations.com/ninjagaiden/
Ninja Gaiden – Developer Commentary (2023) - shmuplations.com
Taken from a string of social media posts shared in 2023, these comments from director Hideo Yoshizawa recount the making of Tecmo's classic side-scrolling action game, Ninja Gaiden.
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October 31, 2025 at 2:54 PM
This is full of great stuff, from the Blade Runner reference to the president's ideas ("Americans love kanji!") to the origins of the "Gaiden" thing.
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note the legals: LRG's using Japan's arbitration system for orphaned games to reissue Little Samson—if you can demonstrate that you've made a genuine effort to contact/identify a potential rights owner to no avail, you can legally commercialise an old game by paying royalties to the JP govt, which…
October 30, 2025 at 2:30 AM
note the legals: LRG's using Japan's arbitration system for orphaned games to reissue Little Samson—if you can demonstrate that you've made a genuine effort to contact/identify a potential rights owner to no avail, you can legally commercialise an old game by paying royalties to the JP govt, which…