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      Keiji Inafune left LEVEL-5 in mid-2024; LEVEL-5 Osaka Office established to take over LEVEL5 comcept operations

# Keiji Inafune left LEVEL-5 in mid-2024; LEVEL-5 Osaka Office established to take over LEVEL5 comcept operations

Keiji Inafune left LEVEL-5 in mid-2024, the company announced in a post on its newly launched “Five-Star Workshop Devlog” development blog. LEVEL-5 also announced the establishment of LEVEL-5 Osaka Office, which will take over all operations from LEVEL5 comcept, the previously studio led by Inafune under LEVEL-5 after it acquired Inafune’s Comcept in July 2017….

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      Monster Hunter Wilds sales top eight million in three days

# Monster Hunter Wilds sales top eight million in three days

Total sales for Monster Hunter Wilds surpassed eight million units in just three days, Capcom announced. It is the fastest a title has reached this milestone in Capcom company history. The Steam version of Monster Hunter Wilds also reached an all-time peak of 1,384,608 players, according to SteamDB. Monster Hunter Wilds launched for PlayStation 5,…

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      Bleach: Rebirth of Souls character trailer – Kaien Shiba

# Bleach: Rebirth of Souls character trailer – Kaien Shiba

Publisher Bandai Namco and developer Tamsoft have released a new character trailer for fighting action game Bleach: Rebirth of Souls highlighting playable fighter Kaien Shiba. According to his description, Shiba’s superior set of skills makes him a well-rounded warrior capable of taking over the battlefield. Bleach: Rebirth of Souls is due out for PlayStation 5,…

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      ‘Existential platformer’ PEPPERED for PC launches April 7

# ‘Existential platformer’ PEPPERED for PC launches April 7

“Existential platformer” PEPPERED will launch for PC via Steam on April 7, developer Mostly Games announced. Here is an overview of the game, via its Steam page: About PEPPERED is a heavily narrative-driven 2D platforming game. It aims at subverting well-known gaming tropes to tell a story about the existential struggles of everyday life. Responsibility,…

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      This Week’s Japanese Game Releases: Split Fiction, Suikoden I & II HD Remaster: Gate Rune and Dunan Unification Wars, more

# This Week’s Japanese Game Releases: Split Fiction, Suikoden I & II HD Remaster: Gate Rune and Dunan Unification Wars, more

Split Fiction for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC, and Suikoden I & II HD Remaster: Gate Rune and Dunan Unification Wars for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC are the highlights of this week’s Japanese game releases. Also due out this week are remastered versions of Kotaro Uchikoshi-written visual…

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