Jan 7
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Koei Tecmo announced it’s filing charges with Kanagawa police against a suspect for allegedly selling an unlicensed…
Dec 29
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Lin Qi, the billionaire founder of China-based League of Angels developer Yoozoo Games, died on Christmas, several…
Dec 1
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21-year-old Ryan Hernandez, who had been arrested in relation to the theft of “stolen information, including…
Nov 26
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Alex Walker
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Nov 16
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As Kotaku previously reported, Capcom was hit by a cyberattack, with a group claiming to have stolen 1TB of employee…
Nov 5
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On November 2, Capcom’s servers were brought down by “unauthorized access carried out by a third party”.
Sep 27
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Leah Williams
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1000 Games for Windows is a shareware compilation disc once found in the bargain bins of the early 2000s. On the…
Aug 12
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Tatsuya Matsuki, the scribe behind manga Act-Age, has been arrested for alleged sexual assault against a…
Jul 1
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In Tokyo, police have arrested a second-year high school student for allegedly threatening to bomb Konami…
May 27
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Today in Kyoto, police arrested 42-year-old Shinji Aoba for allegedly carrying out last year’s Kyoto Animation arson…
May 26
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On the morning of May 25, there was an attempted robbery at a 24-hour game cafe in Naha, Okinawa. The suspect stabbed…
May 20
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US Customs has seized 86,000 bootleg Pokémon figures, worth an estimated $600,000, hidden inside a shipment arriving…
May 12
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In Yokohama, a 25-year-old man was late on his rent to the tune of 160,000 yen ($1,490). The apartment’s management…
May 3
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Alex Walker
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Victoria Police has charged five Australians over deliberately losing and simultaneously betting in Counter-Strike:…
Feb 2
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21 year-old Ryan Hernandez pleaded guilty last week to charges related to the 2016 theft of “confidential Nintendo…
Jan 28
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Last August, the former manager of an Akihabara maid cafe was kidnapped and tortured after he had quit his job at…
Jan 27
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Frederick Lopez Jr., 28, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after being found guilty of robbing four GameStop…
Jan 15 2020
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Last week the FBI arrested 19-year-old John William Kirby Kelley, who it’s alleged was part of a group responsible…
Dec 5 2019
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The president of Gainax, best known for the Evangelion series, has been arrested. Tomohiro Maki, age 50, was taken…
Dec 4 2019
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In June 2012, a random stabbing rampage in Osaka left two dead, including game music producer Shingo Minamino. Kyozo Isohi was sentenced to death for the killings, but the Japanese Supreme Court has overturned that ruling, giving him life in prison on the grounds he was suffering from hallucinations.
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