Partly thanks to the crash of the North American video game industry in 1983, Japan ruled for years with franchises like Resident Evil and Final Fantasy. These franchises are alive and kicking ...

LOS ANGELES - As the video game market has expanded, Japanese game developers have been under increasing pressure to reach Western audiences with their titles. It’s exactly that which has led to ...

Keiji Inafune believes Japanese publishers don't give developers the opportunity to show their own strengths, and the industry is suffering for it. The. Skip to main content.

Japanese developers, previously trapped into targeting galakei, in turn have a chance for a piece of the global iPhone pie, which topped 3 billion application downloads globally in less than 18 ...

Speaking with Gamasutra, Comcept and Intercept founder, Keiji Inafune of ex-Capcom fame, has much to say about the issues he feels are holding Japanese game developers back. Above all, Inafune ...

TOKYO -- More Japanese game developers are riding the esports wave that has transformed the business models of many American and Chinese companies, le ...

LOS ANGELES - As the video game market has expanded, Japanese game developers have been under increasing pressure to reach Western audiences with their titles. It’s exactly that which has led to ...