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3D酔いガチ勢　主にPCでゲームをのんびり遊ぶ人
スマホゲーはFGO
コロナ禍以降模型も

[「魔法使いの夜」（Nintendo Switch/PlayStation4/Steam）【公式】 @mahoyo_game]

【セール開催中】
劇場アニメーション公開日が発表した
「#魔法使いの夜」。

原作ゲームの移植版となる
Nintendo Switch版・Steam版
初の50%OFFセール開催中！

・Steam https://t.co/1XNYmBQUtS
・Nintendo Switch
https://t.co/e7I0Hlfh2T

#TYPEMOON

[星海社最前線 @sai_zen_sen]

【特報】
奈須きのこ
Illustration／こやまひろかず

小説『魔法使いの夜』
星海社FICTIONSから全3巻で、8・9・10月連続刊行決定！

TYPE-MOONのノベルゲーム『#魔法使いの夜』が、奈須きのこ自身の手によって小説としてここに新生！
#蒼崎青子生誕祭

[Katsuhiro Harada @Harada_TEKKEN]

I think it was around the third or fourth year after the show that used to be called CES became known as E3.

Back then, someone from the event staff asked me something like, “Some American celebrities are here ! do you want to meet them?” But I was just a hardcore game developer and self-built PC nerd who had absolutely no understanding of the value of meeting celebrities. So instead of paying attention to famous people visiting our booth, I only remember running straight to the Half-Life booth and the pre-release Baldur’s Gate booth.
(Actually… I still wonder what celebrities were even there.)

At that E3, NVIDIA’s RIVA TNT graphics card was an absolutely massive topic of discussion ..at least among people like me ,,and I remember standing there staring at the demo endlessly.
I think my body temperature was probably three degrees higher than normal at the time.

And younger people today may not know this, but back then there was a video card called the Voodoo2 that every PC gamer in the world knew about. I was completely obsessed with the idea of buying a second Voodoo2 card at a Fry’s Electronics store in the US.
I needed that second card. The meaning was a bit different from what people today think of as SLI, though.
but at the time almost every PC gamer belonged to the “Church of Voodoo.”
Eventually I converted to NVIDIA later on, though.

Honestly, my head was so full of “I need to get to Fry’s” that I barely even remember the reaction to our own game titles. In those days, unlike now, our schedules weren’t packed from morning to night with interviews.

Every year back then, I’d run around to other companies’ booths, play demos, stare closely at the technology, and then head to Fry’s the next day. I remember once going there to buy a Santa Cruz sound card, and seeing an employee casually put what appeared to be a returned product right back onto the shelf. I was genuinely shocked by how different that was from Japanese retail culture.

Also, in the 1990s, arcades still barely survived in the United States, and there was still a real arcade versus culture there, so I used to go watch it. This was something I did from the very beginning. What always surprised me was that, unlike Japan, players in American arcades often played sitting directly side-by-side on linked cabinets. I would always think, “These guys are sitting this close to each other… how are they not constantly getting into fights?”

In Japan, the players usually sit facing each other with two arcade cabinets physically separating them, so if someone gets angry, the most they can really do is throw an ashtray or kick the cabinet to indirectly express their frustration.

I also used to visit stores and tournament organizers who were running major events, bringing posters, small printed character CG posters, and Japanese prize goods, telling them, “Please use these as tournament prizes.” It was a very grassroots kind of support activity.

And speaking of memories from those days …I remember seeing Masaya Nakamura, the founder of Namco and the company president at the time, bringing Japanese instant udon with him on business trips to Los Angeles. After seeing that, I started copying him and did the same thing for years.

I guess those are the kinds of memories I have from that era.
AH!! I just realized something ….apparently even at this age, I’m still the same hopeless game nerd at heart.
The moment someone asks me even a small question, I immediately start rambling on forever about tiny details nobody even asked for.

[nagizzi @nagizzi]

Diablo4ウォーロックのハードスタートだったんだけど45までサクッと上がったので非常にテンポがよい。
一晩中遊びたいが今週木金は休み取らない選択をしたので若干後悔。DLCわかってたら休んでた気がする…
ブランクあってもあっただけ別ゲーぽく感じて楽しいし時間溶けるのだ

[nagizzi @nagizzi]

Diablo拡張でるやん

[AOYAMA Koji @ロジック推し @kojibm]

新シリーズ『マンガで感じる！本当の基礎から学ぶゲームプログラミング』ついに始動‼️

40年以上の自分のゲームプログラミング経験をすべて出し切り、できるだけ広く深く網羅的に、体系化してわかりやすく共有します
毎週月曜日にエピソードを更新して完走まで1年半かかる想定です※ただし次回は2週間後予定

実はこれが独立・起業して実現したかったことです
まずは記事でその「想い」を語りました

「マンガ」はできるだけ多くの方にご覧いただきたいので、興味のある方にも紹介していただけると嬉しいです
プロ志向の方には「職人の視点」セクションも用意しているので是非ご参照ください
https://t.co/5LbTiXe0J7
#マンガ #プログラミング学習

[電ファミニコゲーマー @denfaminicogame]

映画『魔法使いの夜』が2026年に公開決定！！今春に続報公開
https://t.co/CPwIJmJ4Yq

TYPE-MOONが2012年に発売した伝奇ビジュアルノベル作品の劇場アニメがついに今年公開へ。80年代後半を舞台にしており『月姫』に登場した「蒼崎青子」の若き日を描く

[nagizzi @nagizzi]

ワイルズ復帰して早々にオメガ戦でeScape流れてテンション爆上がり

[nagizzi @nagizzi]

@Takch4n まあせっかくなので遊んでないコンテンツ楽しんでみることにする
いろいろイベント復刻されてる？ようだしね

[nagizzi @nagizzi]

ワイルズ1周年らしいのでタイトルアップデート1くらいから遊んでなかったけど久しぶりに復帰しよ。
こんだけ寝かしたのでさすがにコンテンツ不足感はないだろ

[Katsuhiro Harada @Harada_TEKKEN]

LOL hahaha. Of course.

Here’s the reality: video game nerds like us spent our weekend nights inside games.
When we were young, after school or work, we weren’t just “playing” ..we were living in arcades, battling for high scores, dissecting strategies. Every year brought new massive cabinets and motion-based machines, and that raw excitement was irreplaceable.

Unlike the normies, gamers like us were grinding gold and coins long before crypto and digital wallets became trendy buzzwords.

Back in the early internet days of the 1990s, farming items, gold, and platinum in Diablo, Ultima Online, and EverQuest was busier than our actual day jobs.

And the first moment the world truly connected through online games? That was unreal.
On Ultima Online’s official launch day, players were introducing themselves by country, saying things like:
“My grandfather and yours fought in WWII — and now we’re playing together. How insane is that?”

That was the first time the world genuinely felt connected. The virtual world outshined real nightlife districts by a mile.

This was the narrowband era. Servers were fragile, and just putting an image on your homepage could get you treated like a criminal. Early Ultima Online? One step could take minutes. No exaggeration.

We weren’t using undersea fiber from Japan to North America. Japanese players literally signed contracts with American AT&T providers and dialed by phone line all the way to Lake Superior servers. The lag was borderline unbelievable but no problem at all because fun.

Going out to real-world parties? Not even remotely an option.

When EverQuest hit its peak, anyone who invited you out on a Friday or Saturday night was friendship-ending. If you had time for nightlife, you clearly weren’t camping rare named spawns.

Why go drinking when you could go dragon hunting?
And yes.... the excitement was bladder-bursting level. We literally couldn’t leave to use the bathroom.

Then PC performance went insane. Overclocking, benchmarking, higher resolutions.. nonstop.
Then came story-driven shooter campaigns like Medal of Honor and Call of Duty, plus multiplayer games that simply never ended once you started.

At some point, our lives even turned into nightly virtual bank robberies.

Gamers were absurdly busy. There was zero time for old men’s social gatherings, elite banquets, or brain-dead club parties.
The truth? Video games completely surpassed real-world entertainment.

When my wife first came to my place, she was horrified and asked:
“Why is there an arcade table cabinet in your living room? Does it cost 100 yen per play?”
“Why is the next room filled with towers of empty boxes, CDs, and DVDs?”
“Why are there so many screens and PCs ,,,, are you trading stocks?”
“Why are hoses filled with green liquid running from all these PCs to giant metal towers on the balcony?”
“Why are arcade controllers everywhere?”
“Why are PC parts literally covering the walls?”

Because at night I was being a blacksmith, a cute elf, a soldier, a bank robber, and a world saver —
then going to work to make games, talking games, “researching” games by playing them, rushing home, and staying busy landing headshots.

How long do you think it took before that finally made sense to her?

I’ve lived a life that was insanely busy! and incredibly fulfilling.

I’m proud. I’ve experienced every kind of place, moment, and community in the game world... and traveled the real world too, talking about games with people everywhere.
It’s been an overwhelmingly fun life.

There was no time wasted in decay. Every second was converted into XP, coins, or skills.

And yes,,, even within the same game industry, there are plenty of people who have never written a line of code, drawn a single pixel, composed a bar of music, or written a line of specs.... yet somehow stay busy burning entertainment budgets with outsourcing vendors and license holders.

They still love saying “when we made this game,” dropping the word "made", while bragging about nightlife war stories like that’s an achievement.

For the record, those fake “industry guys or producers” (and there are a lot of them) live in a completely different world from us.

[電ファミニコゲーマー @denfaminicogame]

『FGO』沼に初心者を引きずり込んだ結果
→約10年分の物語を数カ月で読破し心身共にズタボロに
https://t.co/7xdBCvkfEu

「お前のせいで…！」と叫ぶその腕は痺れ、目は霞み、推しオベロンに出会えた喜びから満面の笑みを見せる。歓喜と絶望を肴に、愉悦の美酒を嗜む

──喜べ友よ、君は完成したのだ

[電ファミニコゲーマー @denfaminicogame]

『FGO』を10年続けてきて、良かった。ここまでやって味わえる唯一無二の体験があったから
https://t.co/7xdBCvkfEu

第2部終章の決戦にみんなで挑むレイドバトルは、まるで"歴史的瞬間"に立ち会えたかのよう。愛憎あるけど、これまでの旅を続けられたことに、ありがとう

[羽海野チカ @CHICAUMINO]

胸が詰まって言葉になりません
物語の果てに辿り着きました
巨大な星が落ちてきて
胸にでっかい穴があいたようです

本当に
本当に
素晴らしい世界を
ありがとうございました
#FGO

[三田誠＠Makoto Sanda @makoto_sanda]

十年の想いのこもった竹箒日記更新だ……

https://t.co/AzCPRL7Lug

[Katsuhiro Harada @Harada_TEKKEN]

I’d like to share that I’ll be leaving Bandai Namco at the end of 2025.
With the TEKKEN series reaching its 30th anniversary—an important milestone for a project I’ve devoted much of my life to—I felt this was the most fitting moment to bring one chapter to a close.

My roots lie in the days when I supported small local tournaments in Japanese arcades and in small halls and community centers overseas.
I still remember carrying arcade cabinets by myself, encouraging people to “Please try TEKKEN,” and directly facing the players right in front of me.
The conversations and atmosphere we shared in those places became the core of who I am as a developer and game creator.

Even as the times changed, those experiences have remained at the center of my identity.
And even after the tournament scene grew much larger, many of you continued to treat me like an old friend—challenging me at venues, inviting me out for drinks at bars.
Those memories are also deeply precious to me.
In recent years, I experienced the loss of several close friends in my personal life, and in my professional life I witnessed the retirement or passing of many senior colleagues whom I deeply respect.
Those accumulated events made me reflect on the “time I have left as a creator.”
During that period, I sought advice from Ken Kutaragi—whom I respect as though he were another father—and received invaluable encouragement and guidance.
His words quietly supported me in making this decision.

Over the past four to five years, I’ve gradually handed over all of my responsibilities, as well as the stories and worldbuilding I oversaw, to the team, bringing me to the present day.
Looking back, I was fortunate to work on an extraordinary variety of projects—VR titles (such as Summer Lesson), Pokkén Tournament, the SoulCalibur series, and many others, both inside and outside the company.
Each project was full of new discoveries and learning, and every one of them became an irreplaceable experience for me.
To everyone who has supported me, to communities around the world, and to all the colleagues who have walked alongside me for so many years, I offer my deepest gratitude.
I’ll share more about my next steps at a later date.
Thank you very much for everything.

【Postscript】
Although I will be leaving the company at the end of 2025, Bandai Namco has asked me to appear at the TWT Finals at the end of January 2026, so I expect to attend as a guest.

For 30 years I kept saying, “I’ll do it someday,” and never once performed as a DJ at a tournament event.
So instead, I will be releasing—for the first and last time—a 60-minute TEKKEN DJ-style nonstop mix (DJ mix), personally edited by myself, together with this announcement.
Listening to it brings back many memories.
Thank you again, sincerely, for all these years.

‘TEKKEN: A 30-Year Journey – Harada’s Final Mix’ by Katsuhiro Harada 1 is on #SoundCloud https://t.co/PUFOWt3R6M

December 8, 2025 - The Final Day of TEKKEN’s 30th Anniversary -
Katsuhiro Harada

[日本語版 (Japanese version)]
このたび、2025年末をもちまして、私はバンダイナムコを退職することにいたしました。
長く携わってきた『鉄拳』シリーズが30周年という大きな節目を迎え、ひとつの区切りとして最もふさわしい時期であると考えたためです。

私の原点は、日本のゲームセンターや、海外コミュニティの小さな講堂やコミュニティセンターで、まだ小規模なトーナメントをサポートしていた時代にあります。
アーケード筐体を自ら運び込み、「鉄拳もぜひ遊んでみてほしい」と声をかけながら、目の前の参加者と向き合った日々。
あの場で交わした言葉や空気が、私という開発者の核を形作りました。
時代が変化しても、あの経験が自分の中心にあります。
そしてトーナメントシーンが大きく成長した後も、皆さんは旧知の友人のように私に声をかけ、会場で対戦したり、バーで『一緒に飲もう』と誘ってくれました。
それらもまた、大切な思い出です。

ここ数年間、私生活においては友人達との死別があり、仕事においては、私が尊敬する多くの先輩方の引退や逝去に触れてきました。
そうした出来事の積み重ねが、私に『開発者として残された時間』について考える契機を与えました。
その過程で、私がもう一人の父親のように敬愛する久夛良木健さんにも相談し、貴重な助言と励ましのお言葉をいただきました。
この言葉もまた、今回の決断を静かに後押しするものとなりました。

そして、この4〜5年をかけて私の担ってきたすべての業務やストーリーや世界観、そして責務をチームに段階的に引き継ぎ、今日に至ります。
振り返れば、VR作品（サマーレッスンなど）や『ポッ拳』、ソウルキャリバーシリーズをはじめ、自社他社問わず数多くのプロジェクトに携わる機会に恵まれました。
いずれのプロジェクトも新しい発見と学びに満ち、かけがえのない経験となりました。

これまで支えてくださった皆様、世界中のコミュニティの皆様、そして長年ともに歩んできた仲間たちに深く感謝申し上げます。
次の歩みについては、改めて皆様にお伝えいたします。
これからも、どうぞよろしくお願いいたします。

+あとがき
2025年末をもって退職致しますが、2026年1月末のTWT FINALには顔を出してほしいと会社からお願いされていることもあり、FINALにはゲストとして顔を出すと思います。
これまで30年間『いつかやるよ』と言い続けてやってこなかったトーナメントイベントでのDJですが、その代わりとして“最初で最後のDJ風60分ノンストップ鉄拳ミックス（私による初編集DJ mix）”も、今回のポストに合わせて公開します。

‘TEKKEN: A 30-Year Journey – Harada’s Final Mix’ by Katsuhiro Harada 1 is on #SoundCloud https://t.co/PUFOWt3R6M

様々な思い出が蘇ります。改めて皆さんありがとうございました。

2025年12月8日 - 鉄拳30周年最終日 -
Katsuhiro Harada

[4Gamer @4GamerNews]

冒険は終わらない。26年目のMMORPG「EverQuest」で拡張パック第32弾「Shattering of Ro」が登場

https://t.co/l45qlWXrz2

かつて毎夜毎夜Norrathを旅していたゲーマーは，思わず「まだやっとったんかい！」と叫んでしまいそうなニュースだ

[nagizzi @nagizzi]

@hal44541213hal ジョブチェンジ感よ
順調そうでなによりです！

[藤澤 仁 / storynote @JIn_Fujisawa]

こちら寄稿させていただきました。

生涯胸の内にしまっておこうと思っていたエピソードなのですが、こういうかたちでお話しする機会を得られ、大変光栄でした。

お時間ある方は、是非ご一読ください。

[nagizzi @nagizzi]

気になってはいたけど原作読んだ事なかったどろろ(2019)をネトフリで1話観たら良すぎて3日で24話完走。
感想とか読み漁りたいw

原作も買ったので読みます。
やっぱ手塚先生すごいわと再認識。