Toshihiro Nagoshi, creator of both Super Monkey Ball and Yakuza, has founded a new studio at Sega with a design focus on the latter franchise. According to a report from Famitsu (as translated by Andriasang) the first project out of the new studio – known as ‘Ryu ga Gotoku’ or Yakuza Studio – will be […]
The mind behind Fatal Frame is bringing a new AR-enhanced horror experience to the Nintendo 3DS. Keisuke Kikuchi has teamed his studio at Tecmo up with Nintendo to create Shinrei Camera, a game which will come packed with an “AR Notebook” that reveals in-game details through the 3DS camera. Camera will have three modes: a […]
The PSP Engine, soon to be responsible for the remastered versions of PSP games optimized for the PS3, was unveiled at Tokyo’s Game Tools & Middleware Forum 2011. Kentaro Suzuki first introduced the engine, detailing many of its finer features, including the memory expansion tool set that will be used to render higher definition textures. […]
Level-5, of Professor Layton franchise fame, has hired Yasumi Matsuno (Tactics Ogre, Vagrant Story) in an unknown role. Speaking with Famitsu (translated by Andriasang) Matsuno stated that he wished to work on more “compact games” with shorter development cycles, something geared more towards children. Level-5 CEO Akihiro Hino told the magazine that he and the […]