AFK Journey is getting an update.
AFK Journey is getting an update.
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How AFK Journey aims to make anime into a global art style

I haven’t interviewed learned anything about Chinese game developers in a while and so I took some time for a discussion with Xiaodong Tian, chief product officer of Lilith Games and Farlight Games. I wanted to see how the team approached making a global game.

He joined Lilith Games in 2013 as the 66th employee of the company. He’s been the producer of AFK Journey, AFK Arena, and Soul Hunter. And his company just unveiled the Song of Strife update for the game,

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Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.