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Former Dragon Quest producer’s studio PinCool was hit by NetEase Games funding withdrawal before securing a new partner  - AUTOMATON WEST

… At the time, his studio had been working on three unannounced projects, one of which survived because it was smaller in scale and nearly complete. The rest were long-term projects and thus had to be scrapped. …

Jun 1, 2026 · Amber V

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“The sharp player decline we expected never came.” Final Fantasy 11 director talks about recent surge in players and challenges the MMORPG faces due to server limitations and lack of manpower  - AUTOMATON WEST

… Still, there are plans to potentially bring former FFXI team members back onto the project in the future, while engineers are also working on middleware improvements related to graphical resource management. …

May 19, 2026 · Amber V

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Capcom and Vanillaware veteran spent 6 years in a remote mountain village developing Veritas Tales: Witch of the Dark Castle, a gamebook-inspired RPG with over 300 hand drawn illustrations  - AUTOMATON WEST

… Becoming independent, the developer fully devoted himself to the passion project that would become Veritas Tales: Witch of the Dark Castle. …

May 27, 2026 · Amber V