Paws of Fury

Level-5 began its life as a studio on June 24, 2025: it’s their 20th anniversary this week!

While sharing a vague promise of providing a “variety of entertainment for the future,” the company also gave us a killer new piece of art, showcasing their many different original and collaborative projects. Amazingly, despite their storied two-decade history, the main setpiece is arguably theYo-Kai Watch Busterscar and the new face of the company: Jibanyan.

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Although it formed in 1998, the company was hard at work with their first critical and commercial hitDark Cloud, which would drop in 2000. From there the rest was history. If you can name every single character in the below piece of art without help, you deserve a salute.

Emio’s cover

The Unova Starters in Pokemon Go.

Sam Bridges wearing purple Ludens sunglasses in Death Stranding.

Like a Dragon: The Man Who Erased His Name

silent hill transmission

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Famicom Wars Famicom Friday

Naoe, Sorin, and Jinchiro looking serious