While Sony is gearing up for PSP to Android ports, HyperDevbox already made two of them, Generation of Chaos and Spectral Souls. Carlo Perconti explains the processes and is interested in bringing PS3 and Xbox 360 games to Android devices.

JAST USA’s Peter Payne discusses piracy, the perception of moe in the West, and dealing with Japanese companies to license their games.

“The voices of fans who played the first Hyperdimension Neptunia were certainly important factors for the overhaul. Idea Factory’s Business Development Manager, Damien Urvois, also had passionate requests about the game.”

“There are lots of fish in the action game world. However, I would like gamers to have fun with the UNIQUE feeling this title has. We are hoping to release the title in western world!”

“If I had the budget, I’d like to make a game with really muscular characters who tear each other’s clothes off.”

“It’s hard to say that there is something from America that is moe, but the closest thing, and I don’t think anyone is going to understand is Mortal Kombat.”

Folklore writer and Child-Dream founder, Hidehisa Miyashita, is an independent developer in Japan who works on visual novels and RPGs for the iPhone and PC.

“A lot of the jokes in Neptunia were references via the text. In Neptunia mk2 a lot of the little references are tossed directly into the game or enemy design. For example, one enemy is called the ‘Horsebird’ and looks like a horse with two legs and wings.”

The original Metroid first came into being as our desire to create a game that took place in a gloopy, alien-like world. In early development, there were only rows of blocks, and the backgrounds didn’t give you the sense that they were alive.

ELEMENTS, a small Japanese developer based in Fukuoka, have put their skills to use in an entirely different realm of game creation: ARGs, or “alternate reality games”.

“We had one goal when we decided to make the PS3 version [of Tales of Graces f]. We wanted to add something extra for our fans to enjoy, and give a deeper look into the story and gameplay.”

“Wizardry was another one of those surprisingly good sales games when we released it on PSN. People really enjoyed playing it,” producer Luke Rideout said to Siliconera.

“What’s the story behind the Konami Code, anyway,” Shigeharu Umezaki asks. “There isn’t one, really,” Kazuhisa Hashimoto answered. “Because I was the one who was going to be using it, I made sure it was easy to remember. “

In this interview, director Keiichiro Toyama talks about designing stages with a changing ground plane, why he wanted a cute protagonist, and his inspiration for Gravity Rush.