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Q&A: Taito's Fujita On Mobile Consolidation, iPod Hopes

Following up on a recent interview, Gamasutra catches up with Taito U.S. rep Keiji Fujita, who is senior producer for mobile products for the legendary Space Invaders creators in the territory.

Taito, which is currently owned by Final Fantasy creator Square Enix, still exists in its own right and created Exit for Xbox Live Arcade, as well as publishing the Cooking Mama series in Japan - though that series is published by Majesco in North America.

In this follow-up interview, Fujita discusses the consolidating cellphone game market and possibilities for Taito games on Apple's iPod hardware, as well as Square Enix and Taito's evolving relationship, including Square Enix publishing Taito DS games in the West.

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Cooking Mama: Cookstar Review: Millennial Mama

Cooking Mama: Cookstar is a charming passion project from a dev team that clearly cares about the franchise.

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The Cooking Mama Game for Switch That Came Out, and Then Disappeared

Last week, a new Cooking Mama game was released for Nintendo Switch. The only problem is that it got un-released shortly afterwards.

execution171474d ago

I wonder if this is the game that uses your switch to mine cryptocurrency

Rachel_Alucard1474d ago

Yeah some big name in the homebrew scene looked at it and it was having high resource usage and some network traffic indicating it most likely does have a miner in it.

Double_O_Revan1474d ago

As sh***y as that is, I also find that amazing.

"so guys, we're gonna port Cooking Mama to the Switch, but at the same time, we're gonna build in a crypto miner for 'reasons'.

Some dude in the back" uh, what?"

" your services are no longer required. you're excused "

Chaos_Order1474d ago

I saw something about that and assumed it was an April Fool's joke, but... no.

From what I've read we don't yet have absolute proof this is what's happened, but the accusations are there and we're yet to see what the investigation will bring up. What a weird world we live in if it turns out to be true.

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Cooking Mama's dash of blockchain seasoning - what does it actually mean?

"There's a new Cooking Mama game coming and as well as a vegetarian mode, it's also bringing with it... blockchain technology?

We've tried to break down what that actually means and whether it's just meaningless jargon"

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