We’re not even a year on from Tesla founder Elon Musk’s settlement in a case over using an aritst’s work without…
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Toco Toco TV, a series of intimate interviews with Japanese creators that we’ve been following for ages, has just released its final episode, about composer Keiichi Okabe (NieR, Drakengard 3).
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Yoko Taro wants folks to knock it off with the fan art and cosplay complaints, saying one of the reasons he doesn’t…
Nier: Automata’s existential story about an endless war between androids and machines has a ton of great moments. My…
SAN FRANCISCO—Without his mask, Yoko Taro looks like anyone else at the Game Developers Conference. He has a thin…
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Yoko Taro gets finally gets his overdue D.I.C.E. award for Role-Playing Game of the Year, as well as an apology from Square Enix. Hooray!
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The end of the world is here, and I never thought it’d sound so beautiful.
Nier Automata is cruel to its characters.
It’s taken a little longer than I was expecting, but Nier: Automata’s first proper action figures are finally on the…
Taro Yoko’s producer at Square Enix says he wants the Nier director to make a Final Fantasy. He let this brilliant idea fly during a recent interview with Wow Japan, saying he would want the game to feature a “similar strangeness” to Yoko’s other games. “I’m hoping for a big budget if I do work on it,” Yoko replied.
When giving a panel at SEA Summit in Singapore, Yoko Taro talked about his hopes and dreams, including the…
There’s a limited-edition Nier Blu-ray disc for sale here only at Tokyo Game Show, and it’s selling out in minutes…
While Nier Automata’s 2B has been the undisputed cosplay star of 2017, she’s not the only character being featured…
In the wake of Scalebound’s cancellation, Platinum Games released its hit Nier: Automata in Japan. Hideki Kamiya tweeted,“It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that Platinum was rescued by Yoko [Taro].” The studio has new fans as well as an increase in top flight job applicants.
Nier: Automata audio engineer Masami Ueda has written a cool blog post detailing how he implemented composer Keiichi Okabe’s secondary hacking soundtrack. It’s easy to overlook how much work something like that takes, and fun to get a look at Ueda’s process.
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If this fan-made sequence is anything to go on, then a Nier: Automata anime could be a very good idea.
Nier: Automata is both a wild action game and an introspective look at the things that make us human. We…