Our first podcast of 2026 is under 24 hours away. We'll be joined by @genkigamer.bsky.social to talk about lots of fun stuff - Nintendo Museum, Watch Dogs: Legion, Lumines Arise, Street Fighter 6 on Switch 2 and more! youtube.com/live/hIvZqec...

Silent Hill f pop up in Shibuya!

Final Fantasy Composer Nobuo Uemastu says he is not sure why people love “Battle at the Big Bridge” from FF5! He says the reason he doesn't want people to talk about it as much as they do is because he says there was no big inspiration or idea behind it...

Final Fantasy Composer Nobuo Uemastu says the music for FF4, 5 and 6 followed the same pattern as FF1, 2 and 3! - FF1 was trying to figure things - FF2 was experimenting - FF3 was the completion stage He says FF4 was also figuring things out, FF5 was experimenting and FF6 being the completed form

Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade display in Akihabara!

Resident Evil Requiem display in Akihabara!

Mario Composer Koji Kondo performed the Super Mario Bros. theme song on Japanese TV as part of the NHK New Years celebrations!

Leon at the Capcom Exhibition!

Dante at the Capcom Exhibition! #DMC

Mega Man design artwork at the Capcom Exhibition!

Breath of Fire sketches at the Capcom Exhibition!

Street Fighter artwork at the Capcom Exhibition! 🔥

Hello everyone! Just want to remind you that the deadline for BitSummit submissions is December 31st (submission fee: ¥2750). Late entries are open until January 16, 2026 (¥5500). Looking forward to seeing your games! For more information visit bitsummit.org.

Death Stranding 2 Pop Up Tour! Kojima Productions held a special Death Stranding 2 pop up store and various launch events in Tokyo! I made a video of it here. A small taste of Japan. WATCH: youtu.be/kqFTmifBDAA

Final Fantasy IX 25th Anniversary Exhibition in Tokyo! #FF9

Shigeru Miyamoto announced Maaya Sakamoto, the voice of Aerith in FF7 Remake, will play Rosalina in the Japanese version of The Super Mario Galaxy Movie!

Japanese version of The Super Mario Galaxy Movie Trailer!

Nintendo is the #4 most popular company that Japanese college students want to work for! #4 - Nintendo (#1 for men, #21 for women) #21 - Bandai Namco (#10 men) #24 - Konami (#6 men) #30 - Sega (#15 men) #39 - Capcom (#11 men) #110 - Sony Interactive Entertainment #125 - Square Enix

Metal Gear Solid producer Okamura says it would be tough to bring over MGS4 “The hardware at the time required a very particular design to produce 3D performance with the technology available at the time. MGS4 also has quite a unique code... It seems it would be tough to bring it over now (laughs)”

Final Fantasy IX 25th Anniversary Exhibition in Tokyo! #FF9

Octopath Traveler 0 is on the cover of this week's Famitsu magazine!

Square Enix posted the snowboarding mini-game tease from FF7 Rebirth as the December calendar wallpaper! #FF7R I can't wait to play it in FF7 Remake part 3!

Hideo Kojima listed 10 essential items he can’t live without! 1. Camera (Sony a660) 2. Sony Digital Walkman & wired earphones 3. Vinyls & CDs 4. Watch 5. Coffee (drinks 7 cups a day) 6. Extra thin cotton swabs 7. Atomizer 8. Art catalogs & Movie pamphlets 9. Glasses & Sunglasses 10. Neck Gaiter

Hideo Kojima will join the voice cast for the Japanese dub of Zootopia 2! He has a cameo appearance as Paul Moldebrandt It is his first animated voice acting role. He was offered the role from Director Jared Bush. Kojima said he "gladly accepted without hesitation" www.famitsu.com/article/2025...

Play In Ginza special event at Ginza Sony Park to celebrate the 5th anniversary of PlayStation 5! #PS5

Exhibition of all the Limited Edition PlayStation 30th anniversary special posters! #PS5

They have all the PlayStation home consoles from PS1 to PS5 set up with matching TVs from each era at the Play In Ginza PS5 event!

PlayStation logo original concept designs and the final design! #PlayStation

Silent Hill f actress Konatsu Kato was nominated for Best Performance at The Game Awards!

And the Wii... well its a GameCube.

Nintendo prototypes its next console using the current one. For example at the Nintendo Museum the prototype for the DS was 2 GBA screens put on top of each other. While the Wii U prototype was 2 Wii Remotes glued to the sides of a monitor lol

Square Enix announced Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Dear Destiny novel, a sequel to Traces of Two Pasts by Kazushige Nojima! #FF7 It will tell the story of Aerith and Tifa before they join the main plot and also include the story of Cloud as a Shinra soldier! Releases on January 30, 2026 in Japan

Pikachu and Gameboy manhole cover inside the Nintendo Museum!

Shigeru Miyamoto’s signature is on the wall of the Nintendo Museum!

IRL Kirby Vending machine!

Nintendo character art wall at the Nintendo Museum!

I got the Miyamoto street pass at the Nintendo Museum! ✨

Super Mario Galaxy Rosalina standee has started to appear in Japanese game stores!

Nintendo Museum was amazing and I would recommend it as a must go location for Nintendo fans visiting Japan!

Pikmin are hidden throughout the Nintendo Museum! One of the fun things you can do there is try to spot them. Shigeru Miyamoto really loves those Pikmin!

Wind Waker real stained glass art at the Nintendo Museum! 🔥

Clair Obscur Expedition 33 special art work by Legendary Final Fantasy Artist Yoshitaka Amano! 😱 via @lostincult.co.uk

Sad to hear about the Square Enix layoffs. I hope those affected can find new work soon.

Get ready for BitSummit PUNCH! 📍 Miyako Messe, Kyoto 📅 22 - 24 May 2026 Our theme this year is "High Impact" 💥 🎮 Exhibitor registration now open: bs-entry-system.com #BitSummit #BitSummitPUNCH #パンチ

Here's a big old chat I had with Hamaguchi-san, which in many ways was a bit of a casual hangout before we did the MCM panel. We talk about all sorts - part 3, dataminers finding non-final versions of Rebirth's pivotal scenes, and how Square lost all of the design data for the original FF7.

Metal Gear series has sold 65.1 million copies worldwide!

Silent Hill series has sold 13 million copies worldwide!

This is one of the toughest things I've ever had to write. Hope you can make time for it. #Itagaki

September 2025 U.S. Video Game Market Highlights Thread from Circana - Borderlands 4 Led Several Hit New Releases Helping Deliver 10% Growth in September US Video Game Spending

This week I sit down and chat with @genkigamer.bsky.social once again for our yearly Tokyo Game Show recap. We also talk about how we are feeling about the Switch 2 after four months on the market. Check it out below ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Watch: youtu.be/MY4vbQHBnDc MP3: dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3...