The director is known around indie game horror circles. Before he had only directed slow horror games.

But yeah game can be really creepy. Once you go inside that weird meat grinder machine, shit starts getting really weird.

It’s a really good game and an amazing achievement since it’s made by one dude (except music which is by the great Andrew Hulshult).

It's growing. I just got back from Tokyo, and it was surprising to see there are now eSports cafes and dedicated PC gaming shops littered around. Saw one huge PUBG stand in Akihabara. There didn't seem to be much of anything like that back when I was there in 2015, so it seems things are changing.

Japan's league of legends league is the first major region to become a franchised league and often has viewership equal to the English broadcast of the Korean league on twitch. The playerbase may not be huge but they do seem dedicated. The Maru Cup for Dota2 is another example. Games like path of exile and dota 2 have dedicated Japan servers/gateways.

In fact, throughout most of the 1980s computer games were the larger and more popular market in Japan. Only at the tail end of the 1980s did console gaming overtake gaming on home computers. The NEC PC-9801, Sharp X68000, MSX and MSX2 were some of the more popular computers in Japan with a strong focus on gaming performance.

As a matter of fact, even console gaming is no longer the dominant way of gaming in Japan, handheld and mobile gaming is.

Sony is currently censoring AA games might lead to more PC ports of regular JRPGs.

Sometimes they release PC port because of CERO(game rating). Game must be rated by CERO in order to release game for console but CERO has really bullshit strict rules that they refuse to rate pretty much every M rated games. So they censor those games for console and since game on PC doesn't need this, they release uncensored version for PC.

This should be Project Indiana. I assume "The Outer Worlds" trademark Obsidian filed to secure the title for them.

Maybe this even includes some of the concept of that unrealized sci-fi project they had a few years ago.

Its rumored to be a third or first person action RPG set in a sci-fi world.

They've said previously this is an action-oriented RPG with AAA graphics using the Unreal Engine 4. It is a new IP. When people have asked Cain and Boyarsky about Fallout and Arcanum, they've said this isn't either of those but should appeal to fans of both. It's going to be first or third person (I'm not sure which), not isometric.

Alpha Protocol IP is owned by Sega, so definitely not.

Yep, looks sick! JX3 has many fans of its Dōjin culture. Hopefully Wang Xing doesn't disappoint with the script.

It's made at the expense of Huyao Xiao Hongniang and The Outcast. It better be something worthwhile.

@NoodleFighter: Dragonball is loosely based off of Journey to the West. The name Son Goku is just the Japanese pronunciation of 孙悟空 or Sun Wukong. There have been a lot of adaptations of the folklore from the anime Saiyuki to the PS1 tactics RPG game Journey to the West.

Many things in Japan have Chinese roots. The list includes the written language, tea, paper, koi fish, tofu, the movable-type printing press, calligraphy, architecture, Confucian philosophy, Buddhism, martial arts, and even the pronunciation of some Japanese words is loosely based on the original Chinese.

China has have an anime industry since 20s. Back in 50s to early 80s, there used to be the golden time for the anime industry of China.

Chinese and Korean manhua/manhwa are popular, just not in America. And probably not as widely so as the Japanese variant. This is mostly because these things aren't being marketed in the West. There is a perception that they are simply copy cats of Japanese manga. Japan leads the anime and manga front because it's a pillar industry in Japan. In China and Korea, it's a niche hobby at best.

Because of this, they simply weren't prominent enough during the anime and manga boom of the 80's and again the 90's which is what resulted in several American companies rushing to import and market Japanese manga to Western audiences. Mainly Chinese manhua artists were discouraged due to copyright issues. Chinese cartoonist tried to make their painting style more Japanese, so that made Chinese manhuas didn’t have their specialties, lost their competitiveness.

China may have a huge domestic market, but some people still view anime as kids-related. And on an international level…haha. Some people may not be willing to try Donghua because “only Japanese animation and Disney is good” and “ Their voice is so weird. Can I have Japanese dub please.” I call it close-minded and the rejection stage. The modernization of Japan came earlier than the rest of Asia which allowed them to enjoy advantages of modernity. China has bad press. Japan had good relations with US. This could have led many cultural things being spread. But I have to say, anime in China is developing in an astonishing speed.

Taipei-set anime style action game. Weeabos might like this, all the anime game hallmarks are there.

It is primarily a VR game as far as I know but they also are making a flat screen copy so they still are able to make a profit while doing such an expensive production funded by a big Chinese company. I mean even a composer is a person that composed for Made in Abyss (Kevin Penkin) an Anime that was super well received with incredibly good music.

This Chinese third-person singleplayer ARPG seem to been having some marketing/pr problems. It was shown at E3 2018.

If we can get this type of talent from Hong Kong and funding to make singleplayer games that would be great.

This is how arcade beat'm ups should have evolved! For some reason the 3-man Korean team didn't really do advertising for this. Had a failed Kickstarter sadly. Hope a publisher picks them up and this gets release in the future.

That gives off a way different feel compared to the teaser revealed 2 years ago. But it has been a while.

They hired the lead developer of Fox Engine to helm their new inhouse engine.

Visually this game reminds me of this.

They were talking about playing Project Re:Link on PC when they first announced it as well.

I love the art style. Good to see real development efforts coming from Russia. The partisan side of WW2 has always been an interesting story to me. I was introduced to it through the film Come & See.

@NoodleFighter It will have English subs. It's really amazing how the combat system progresses in the last few months.

@Gamerno6666Shaolin vs Wutang, martial arts fighting game left early access a couple of weeks ago that's pretty good.

There's a martial arts crpg Fate Seeker recently released on Steam. It has not English support yet. Reviews on Steam so far have been very positive.

The App Store picked Nishan Shaman as its favorite game in July! For some reason Japanese culture has penetrated mass market acceptance, but Chinese culture themed media remains so niche.