Interview by Matt S. Yamanaka Takuya is the perfect example of the benefit of having the director of a video game come from outside of game development. Young for a game director, and appearing more like an indie rock musician than game developer (which is amusing, because he shares a…
Read MoreInterview by Matt S. It has been a while since the last RPG Maker appeared on a home console. While there’s been a few on handheld (and RPG Maker FES on the Nintendo 3DS even got a English localisation), the last time RPG Maker has been on a TV console…
Read MoreInterview by Matt S. Atelier is special to me. I discovered it relatively late – Atelier Rorona on the Sony PlayStation 3 was my first (and I am ever so happy that I’ll have that particular title on my Nintendo Switch soon enough), but I fell in love with the…
Read MoreInterview by Matt S. Dead or Alive is changing. At the same time, it’s remaining distinctly Dead or Alive. It might sound like a difficult thing to balance, but that’s clearly what the game’s producer, Shimbori Yohei, is aiming to achieve with what will be the biggest game in the…
Read MoreInterview by Matt S. As a major entity, creating or publishing games in Japan and then exporting them to the west, Kadokawa Games is relatively new. Kadokawa itself has been around forever as one of the biggest Japanese media brands in history, and brands that fall within its group, such…
Read MoreInterview by Matt S. It’s been a while since the last Warriors Orochi. If you ignore the remakes and HD remasters of Warriors Orochi 3, the last time we had a truly new game in that series was back on the PlayStation 3, which was the initial launch of Warriors…
Read MoreInterview by Matt S. Following on from the healthy success that the Yakuza series has enjoyed in the western markets of late, the development team behind the series is on a high. And that’s why the upcoming Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise title by SEGA is so exciting;…
Read MoreInterview by Matt S. Super Neptunia RPG is a big deal for the ever-expanding Hyperdimension Neptunia series. For the first time, ever, it’s a game that is being developed outside of Japan. That developer is Artisan Studios, a Canadian-based outfit that, in addition to being the first non-Japanese studio to…
Read MoreInterview by Matt S. We’re big fans of the Yakuza series here at DDNet. Between the urban playgrounds that they provide us to mess around with, to the oddball and often hilarious storylines, right through to the violence yakuza fantasies, each Yakuza title is an mesh of so much stuff…
Read MoreInterview by Matt S. Yoko Taro is a challenging person to interview. He’s the pre-eminent video game auteur going around; a creative that approaches his work with a healthy dose of reflection and transgression, and with an equally healthy taste for the surreal and sublime. His approach to game design…
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