Virtuos opens Tokyo studio to strengthen relationship with Japanese developers

A year after unveiling the co-development studio Calypte, Virtuos Studios has shut it down.

Co-development giant Virtuos has shut the doors at Bay Area studio Calypte.

Ghostwire: Tokyo, the most underrated open-world FPS from last year, is free for a limited time via Amazon Prime.

CD Projekt has seemingly hinted at plans to further collaborate with animation company Studio Trigger.

With the WGA strike officially over, Marvel Studios is beginning to meet with writers to take pitches for an .

Tokyo Game Show is happening right now, and in case you missed it, Sony is celebrating with a new sale on the PS Store. As you'd expect, the offer comprises almost exclusively games made in Japan, though there are one or two outliers. Anyway, there are a lot of fantastic titles included here for both PS5 and PS4.

Square Enix hosted a Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth stage presentation at Tokyo Game Show overnight, providing over 30 whole minutes of raw gameplay footage from the upcoming sequel. Most of said gameplay gives us a good look at a very open area called the Grasslands — the countryside beyond Midgar's borders.

After Project Mugen's announcement trailer hit last month at Gamescom, many were quick to draw parallels between the high-flying movements of its main characters and that of Marvel's Spider-Man. However, when I made the comparison to Project Mugen lead producer Ash Qi at Tokyo Game Show last week, he revealed that the inspiration actually came from another source.

Phil Spencer has stated that Xbox players can see more AAA releases by Japanese studios come to the platform in the future. Speaking to Game Watch, Spencer said that Xbox will get more games described by the interviewer as “uniquely Japanese AAA titles” down the line.

There’s been a lot of talk about Phil Spencer and Xbox lately due to the leaked email issue that flooded the news channels last week. The brand and Microsoft were put under the spotlight in the worst way because of past statements that were made public by accident because of the FTC court battle they won. But even with those issues, Spencer is still taking time to build up the Xbox brand and assure gamers that big things are coming. For example, you might know that the Xbox line has never done well in Japan sales-wise.

Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer attended Tokyo Game Show 2023 in person to meet with fans and press alike. Japanese website Game Watch published a new interview with the executive just a few hours ago, and the conversation provides several tidbits worth reporting.

Airship Syndicate teased Wayfinder’s appearance at the Tokyo Game Show, and the team has a new teaser for the next hero on the way, Grendel. His announcement comes alongside some new details, and some more on seasons 1 and 2.