The newest entry in the beloved Avatar series, Avatar: Seven Havens, has somehow turned out to be even more despised and criticized than Legend of Korra, with the show having a surplus of dark-skinned characters, homosexuals, and an avatar who doesn’t seem to need any training.
Dead by Daylight developer Behaviour Interactive has confirmed plans to modify its controversial 2B outfit following complaints from players that the character looks noticeably different from her original appearance in NieR.
An Ohio political blogger has been found guilty of harassment after sending a sexually explicit meme featuring Shrek to a state senator, despite arguing that the image was protected political speech under the First Amendment.
Xbox may have rejected certain anime-style games because a single person within Microsoft’s gaming division personally disliked them, according to an unverified industry rumor shared by Windows Central journalist Jez Corden.
Harry Potter’s Malfoid meme has yet to disappear and fade into obscurity as most memes eventually do, as yet more creators are making use of AI to create anime-style parodies of Harry Potter where Draco Malfoy (and other characters) is instead a tsundere woman.
D3 Publisher has announced Girls und Panzer: All-Star Tank Carnival, a new action game based on the popular anime series, scheduled for release exclusively on Nintendo Switch 2 in 2027.
A Japanese court has ruled that Sanrio was not the original creator of Kuromi, officially recognizing animation studio Studio Comet as the character’s creator. However, despite this acknowledgment, the court dismissed the studio’s copyright infringement lawsuit against Sanrio.
Danganronpa creator and The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy director Kazutaka Kodaka has explained why he intends to keep his development studio small, arguing that expanding would force his team to accept projects they have no interest in making simply to stay financially afloat.
Tokyo’s Shibuya district is preparing for a major Halloween crackdown, announcing 74 million yen (approximately $468,000) in security and crowd-control measures to prevent the chaotic street celebrations that have plagued the area in previous years.
Japan is facing a wave of major cyberattacks that have disrupted businesses, government websites and food distribution networks, while exposing or potentially compromising more than 10 million personal information records.
Another adorable anime girl is becoming an item that will ensure that creators a fortune as this figurine of Blue Archive’s Satsuki is quite the piece of work, the woman’s significant cleavage bound to keep males distracted from whatever it is she is meant to be doing.
A 29-year-old Fortnite player from Alabama was arrested by the FBI after allegedly threatening to shoot federal agents during an in-game voice chat, only for those same agents to show up at his home days later.
Honey Parade Games has released a new trailer for Shinobi Nexus: Senran Kagura, introducing the franchise’s cast of ninja girls and giving hardcore fans their first look at the newest Senran Kagura in quite some time.
NieR fans are criticizing 2B’s appearance in Dead by Daylight after images showing the character without her iconic blindfold circulated online, with some arguing that her face looks nothing like the original character, while the model in general looks way too masculine.
The developers of Skullgirls are facing criticism after two artists accused them of quietly removing their submissions from the game’s 2026 Halloween fan art contest, despite their artwork initially being selected.
The Harry Potter “Malfoid” meme character has continued to accrue renown on social media as she has now not only inspired artists to produce art of the tsundere genderswap, but now there are anime-styled AI animations.
Japanese publishers are expressing outrage after one of the country’s largest book distributors acknowledged selling large quantities of Japanese books to Anthropic, the American AI company behind Claude, raising concerns that the publications may have been destroyed and digitized for AI training without publishers’…
The English Netflix subtitles for Yani Neko have come under scrutiny over a translation that removes a specific reference to Japanese Christian history, replacing it with a more general statement about religious persecution.
Former Capcom developer Masakazu Sugimori believes Japan’s historically extreme crunch culture may help explain why relatively few women rose to become prominent game directors (save for the more obvious reason), arguing that the industry’s old working conditions disproportionately favored people willing and able to…
The Japanese government is asking people and businesses working with AI to tell it which of the country’s existing laws and regulations are preventing them from actually using the technology.
A Japanese game developer says nearly ¥200 million ($1.26 million) in unpaid development fees pushed the company into financial ruin, ultimately forcing it to lay off 70 full-time employees.
AION 2 has finally launched as a free-to-play MMORPG, and while its massive open world and combat are getting plenty of attention, players in Japan and overseas have quickly become fascinated by something else: its remarkably detailed breast customization options.
CyberConnect2 CEO Hiroshi Matsuyama has come down firmly on the side of an all-digital future for video games, arguing that the disappearance of physical games would have “nothing but positive effects” for developers.
Regular PlayStation 5 owners can now get a taste of one of the PS5 Pro’s biggest graphical features, as Sony has introduced a new AI-powered upscaling technology designed specifically for the standard PS5.