Japanese Gaming
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Masahiro Sakurai has confirmed that the Game Designers Award will no longer be part of the Japan Game Awards, bringing a 16-year run to a close. The long-running honor was created to spotlight creativity, originality, and bold design ideas in video games, but Sakurai said the award cannot continue because he has been unable to…
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D4 Enterprise, a company notable for its work porting a plethora of Japanese retro PC games through their Project EGG series, is now on a new venture. To date, the majority of such releases have been hosted on D4’s own Project EGG site which primarily caters to PC gamers in Japan through a subscription system.…
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The creator of the legendary game Dragon Quest, Yuji Horii, has recently been granted the Order of the Rising Sun by the Japanese government, according to their autumn honors list. This award, one of Japan’s most prestigious recognitions, is conferred to citizens who have made extraordinary contributions within their professional domain. Horii, notably, is the…