One-shot wonder social gaming publisher GungHo Online’s days of outstripping Nintendo in market cap look to be well and truly over – the company’s value has plunged by over a third in mere days, leaving nobody in any doubt as to the permanence of social gaming’s ascendancy.
Japanese gamers have been stunned to learn that the market cap of Puzzle & Dragons maker GungHo now exceeds that of Nintendo, prompting both despair and incredulity and perhaps explaining about the Japanese gaming industry’s rapid decline into idolising card and puzzle games for phones.
Well, I think the thing about PD is that it's a combination of popular and addictive systems. It's Pokemon + Bejeweled (both popular and addictive to some), with the insidious "stamina" feature that limits your... More
Guess that's it. Japanese gaming is dead. It had a good run.... More
After having posted the worst losses in its history and sacking its CEO, Square Enix has announced its new focus will be social games.
The FF-fans want a FF game. And every single game in FF have 4 things in common. 1) Open World. 2) Several Towns with NPC and stores. 3) Random Encounters. 4) Gripping Story. FFXIII didn't have 3 out of 4... More
That's like, your opinion, man.... More
The maid cafe industry is apparently having a tough time of it, with Akiba cafe numbers halving in recent years, and some fearing the maid cafe bubble may have actually burst for good.
And let me guess. Host clubs are still booming full of lonely housewives?... More
Nope. Girlfriends have nothing to do with it. Married men will come out and look at other females if they are desperate enough or don't care for their relationship. The maids are there generally for the... More
Index Corporation – the social gaming company which owns Atlus – has just posted its worse losses ever and is now both insolvent and in danger of being delisted from JASDAQ, throwing the future of the Megami Tensei and Persona franchises into grave doubt.
I know this only for japanese sales but I can't help but get the feeling that squeenix and atlus' insistence on catering to fans of american style games is a factor. rather than sticking to... More
I wish it was Blizzard, Bethesda, or one of the crappier companies that was in trouble.... More
After finally sacking its CEO for all the vast losses he caused, Square Enix’s new boss is promising “radical” change – starting by scrapping a lot of as yet unspecified projects and concentrating the company’s resources on what may very possibly turn out to be making social games for the Chinese and Koreans.
Was there ever a good Secret of Mana game? Seiken Densetsu (Game Boy): dark,tragic and epic! Seiken Densetsu 2 or the first SECRET OF MANA (SNES): Kids in the jungle...and colors that will make your... More
actually, some of the Dragon Quest games are connected. The first three games all take place in the same world and revolve around the legendary hero Loto (a role which the player themselves take on... More
Square Enix CEO Youichi Wada has announced he is finally taking responsibility for the company’s disastrous financial performance by resigning, after the firm posted a 13 billion yen loss in its most recent fiscal quarter.
Most of the team that designed their early SFC games is still with the company, believe it or not.... More
For Tomb Raider I don#t know the reason since it's pretty good actually..but Dragon Quest X shows why not every fawking RPG series should be made into an MMO. Srsly I hate this Online Shit... More
Japan’s recent success in extracting methane hydrate is now expected to make Japan a gas export powerhouse, as there is estimated to be enough of the stuff around Japan to last a century or more.
You obviously do not know anything about science. Energy cannot be created out of thin air, and perpetual motion is impossible.... More
Instead of burning everything that can be burned just to power few households, how about making a machine, that is capable of generating energy from "nothing" (motion perhaps)? In theory it is absolutely possible and... More
The creator of the manga adapted into blockbuster bathing movie Thermae Romae has spoken of her outrage at learning that of the movie’s 6 billion yen gross she would only be receiving a paltry 1 million yen.
Square Enix has been making news again – this time for posting a loss of 5.7 billion yen in its most recent financial statement, having posted a profit of 5 billion yen for the same period last year – the loss now being blamed on intense competition in the Japanese video game market and the fact that for some inexplicable reason foreigners refuse to buy its fine titles.
This must be a part of their ingenious plan to loose so much money that the fabric of space time is warped and they become rich.... More
since 2000? kingdom hearts 1&2 dragon quest 8 crisis core did good and was popular and somehow FF 12 and 13 are both in their top 5 all time sales games... More
Founder and former CEO of Square Hisashi Suzuki has damned the company’s merger with Enix as a “total failure,” declaring Square Enix has “no vision for the future” and pointing to its huge losses and a market cap which is now well below the company’s pre-merger valuation as evidence of the disaster.
Disney has bought Lucasfilm and pledged to release a new Star Wars trilogy and then “release a new Star Wars feature film every two to three years” forever after.
“We’ll Make Star Wars Films Forever” No, That's not true, That's impossible! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!11!!!!!1!... More
A TV series would work, after all that old fuck did plan to make a live action TV series based around SW.... More
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