Pragmata

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Pragmata Fully Leans into Mega Man Conspiracy with a Ridiculous In-Game Outfit

Coming soon. If you recall, prior to the release of Pragmata, some fans convinced themselves that the new Capcom action was secretly a Mega Man game. That didn't turn out to be true, but the theory did spread surprisingly far — enough that the publisher purposefully poked fun at it in an April Fools joke. Read the full article on pushsquare.com

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No Joke, Capcom Is Adding A Mega Man Skin To Pragmata

"Inspired by Mega Man: Dual Override". Remember the "joke" Capcom teased, showing a Mega Man outfit in its new space game Pragmata? Well, it's now official!

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Pragmata is getting Mega Man skins

“Pragmata is not a Mega Man game,” Capcom told VGC last year

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Capcom Says The Likelihood Of A Pragmata Sequel Is High

The title has sold over 2.5 million copies worldwide. It's still early days for Capcom's new IP Pragmata, but it seems the future is bright after the title sold over 2.5 million units since launching in April. The team has already touched on the idea of a sequel, and now an update has been shared alongside the company's latest financial results.

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Pragmata developers considered giving Diana a bob cut to reduce rendering costs, but scrapped the idea in favor of a more “character-appropriate” hairstyle

At CEDEC 2026, Capcom's Pragmata developers talked about the challenges behind creating Diana's iconic long hairstyle.

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Capcom says likelihood of a Pragmata sequel is high, citing strong sales and 'appeal' of its main character, Diana

Yesterday, we saw Capcom release sales figures for two of its latest releases, Pragmata and Resident Evil Requiem, via the company's Q1 2026 financial report. It mentioned Pragmata's impressive figures (racking up 2.5m sales since its release earlier this year), and the equally impressive performance of Resident Evil Requiem, already at 8m.

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Pragmata defies my expectations by selling 2.5 million copies in just 3 months as Capcom celebrates a very successful start to 2026

It's good to see that at least someone's doing well.

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Pragmata developers share devastating internal criticism from the game’s early development, earning sympathy from industry peers and fans

A recent documentary on Pragmata's development reveals details about the prolonged, troubled development of the project.

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To make Pragmata's Diana feel naturally childlike, a small group of women dubbed the "Diana Police" was set up to keep things in check

Despite being a dad game, a pseudo-genre that has its fair share of problems in the way it depicts father-child relationships, Pragmata generally seemed to approach all of this fairly well. The consensus seems to be that space man Hugh was genuinely kind of a nice guy, and that his relationship with Diana was actually quite sweet. But as it turns out, the game's lead devs had to get a bit of a helping hand in writing Diana specifically, resulting in a group of women coming in to help as part of

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Pragmata's Latest PS5 Update Adds Hugh's Best Outfit and Nerfs One of the Hardest Challenges

Here are the patch notes. Capcom has released a new patch for its brilliant sci-fi shooter, Pragmata. Available to download now, the update makes only a few changes, but they're some pretty good ones. Read the full article on pushsquare.com

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Pragmata's development team included a group of women known as the "Diana Police" to convincingly capture her child-like innocence

Capcom's long-in-the-works space game Pragmata finally released in April, garnering plenty of praise for its gameplay and more. But, one thing that really captured players' hearts was the friendship between astronaut Hugh and his android companion Diana.

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Capcom had a women-led “Diana Police” on the Pragmata team to make sure Diana was cute in an “uncontrived and childlike” way

In a recent livestream, Pragmata developers revealed they had a "Diana Police" who made sure to keep her natural cuteness "balanced."

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Capcom to celebrate Father’s Day in Japan with special Pragmata stream starring Hugh and Diana’s voice actors

Capcom has decided to celebrate Father's Day Pragmata-style, with a special event scheduled for June 18.

Automaton West / Carlos "Zoto" Zotomayor

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Pragmata director Yonghee Cho says it's not a sad dad game for a very simple reason: 'I'm not a sad dad, I'm a very happy dad'

That settles that.

PC Gamer / Wes Fenlon

Interview

Pragmata's developers take all your comparisons to Xbox 360 shooters as a 'huge compliment', though I'm not convinced by their theory for why players are making the connection

"That's basically an honour."

PC Gamer / Rick Lane

Interview

'Of Course': Pragmata Director Wants a Sequel to Happen Just as Much as You Do

But it's not his decision. Capcom's Pragmata made a fairly big splash when it arrived earlier this year. The new IP from the Japanese publisher has proven to be a success, and its director is keen to see more. In an interview with GamesRadar, director Yonghee Cho is asked about the potential for Pragmata to become another big series for Capcom going forward. Read the full article on pushsquare.com

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Pragmata Director Would "Love To See A Sequel", But The Decision Isn't His Alone

Join the club. It's fair to say that Pragmata has been quite the success for Capcom since it launched earlier this year. It sped past 2 million copies sold in its first 16 days, and it sounds like the studio might be willing to return to the IP down the line. It's far too early to say what's next for the series, of course, but that doesn't stop us from wondering what the future might hold, so it was only a matter of time before the big sequel discussion would pop up. This is the topic that was p

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A Pragmata sequel? Well, "of course" Capcom's game director would love one, but alas, he is "not the only one who decides"

Pragmata's director would "of course" love to make a sequel to Capcom's space-based small girl and astronaut starring game, but he isn't the only person who needs to give it the green light.

Eurogamer / Victoria Phillips Kennedy

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Pragmata director says ‘of course’ he’d like to make a sequel, ‘but I’m not the one who decides’

Director expresses willingness to work on Pragmata 2, following 2 million sales

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Using GameChat Will Actually Boost Pragmata's Performance On Switch 2

But why? If you've played Pragmata on the Switch 2, then you'll know by now that it's a pretty solid port from Capcom. Visuals look nice, it performs well, and it's just a damn good game through and through. But what if you could push the performance even further? Well, as demonstrated by the chaps over at Digital Foundry, you can, and it's all tied to GameChat. So essentially, playing the game normally will yield a frame rate of around 47-53fps depending on the situation, but if you shrink the

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Japanese voice actress behind Pragmata’s Diana to stream herself playing the game

Nao Toyama, the voice of Diana, will be playing Pragmata for her first ever gaming livestream.

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Culture

Growing Young With Pragmata

The synaptic shooter sub-genre is born

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Preview

It's not just Resident Evil Requiem pulling in the numbers for Capcom, Pragmata also just crossed another impressive sales milestone less than one month after its acclaimed release

Pragmata has sold another 1m copies, bringing its total sales figure up to an impressive 2m since its release last month.

Eurogamer / Victoria Phillips Kennedy

Business

Pragmata Sales Reach 2m in Under a Month

Capcom's latest robo-adventure Pragmata has sold two million copies, the company has announced, and it's done so in under a month.

TechRaptor / Joseph Allen

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Pragmata Success Continues, Now at Two Million Copies Sold

Newest milestone achieved in 16 days. Capcom's latest new IP Pragmata continues to go from strength to strength, as the publisher has confirmed the game's sales now sit at over two million units. It managed to hit the new sales milestone in the 16 days following its 17th April 2026 launch. The long-in-development game already appears to be considered a success within Capcom, as executives have recently highlighted it as an IP to explore in the future, suggesting a sequel could be on the cards. E

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GOTY Candidate Pragmata Gets Even Better Visuals on PS5 Pro with New Patch

You did good, Diana. Pragmata already looked and played best on Sony’s gussied-up PS5 Pro hardware, but now it’s been given an extra little bump. You may recall from original reporting, via Digital Foundry, that the supercharged system was using PSSR2 to upscale from an 864p internal resolution up to 4K. Read the full article on pushsquare.com

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Feature: Pragmata Gets PS5 Pro Resolution Bump: Version 1.21 Comes With an Undocumented Upgrade

PS5 Increasingly Professional. Pragmata's PS5 Pro release was something of a strange one, as it offered the best way to play the game on console, yet it actually used a lower internal resolution than the base PS5 code in its 60fps mode. With patch 1.21, that's now been rectified, with the game moving from an 864p internal resolution to 1080p, the same as the vanilla PS5. Read the full article on digitalfoundry.net

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Review: Pragmata PC Review: Path Tracing Is A Game Changer - And Surprisingly Scalable

Plus: those all-important optimised settings. It's been a few weeks now since we first looked at the PC version of Pragmata on DF Direct, viewed through the lens of a high-power RTX 5090-powered path tracing monster, alongside a more mainstream-orientated RTX 4060 machine. We still love the game and Capcom's expert use of the RE Engine, and the PC version is robust, with little in the way of stuttering issues. It's just the problem of the limiting 8GB framebuffer on lower-end GPUs that remains

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Players’ Choice – Pragmata voted April 2026’s top new game

Your votes have spoken: A new dynamic duo emerges as Pragmata wins Players’ Choice for April. Congrats to Capcom! What games have you been playing this month so far? Share predictions on May’s winner in the comments below. Last month was filled with adventures across moons, mindscapes, and the cartoon world! Some big new releases […]

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It Sounds Like Capcom Has Another Huge IP On Its Hands With Pragmata

The future's bright. Pragmata, Capcom's latest flagship game, has already proven to be a pretty huge success. In an age where publishers are becoming more and more risk-averse, the brand-new IP managed to sell over 1 million copies in its first two days on sale – and that's before the Switch 2 version launched in Japan. So with that in mind, it sounds like Capcom might be keen to make more Pragmata games in the future. As covered by Game File (thanks, VGC), Capcom USA's COO Rob Dyer made an enco

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‘We’ve got another IP’: Capcom hints Pragmata could see more games

Capcom shares encouraging words on the future of the sci-fi shooter

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Pragmata Community Comforts a Dad Who Shared That Diana Reminds Him of His Late Daughter

The Capcom community is fighting back tears after one fan shared how Pragmata reminded him of his late daughter.

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Culture

After a successful debut, it sounds like Capcom believes its brand-new IP Pragmata has a bright future ahead

It seems Capcom could have another franchise on its hands. After selling 1m copies in just two days (two days!), the studio's astronaut and small girl-starring game Pragmata could be just the beginning for its brand-new IP.

Eurogamer / Victoria Phillips Kennedy

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Random: Gamer Buys Dodgy Copy Of Pragmata And Breaks Their Switch 2

Be careful, folks. If you're in the market for a new game – specifically a brand-new release, mind you – and fancy bagging yourself a cheeky discount, just be careful. A gamer over on ResetEra by the username 'jokkir' unfortunately found out the hard way by purchasing Pragmata via a Warehouse Deal on Amazon. After inserting the cartridge into the Switch 2 and having no joy, they found that they were unable to eject it in the usual manner.

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Pragmata's Diana Hacks Resident Evil Social Pages, and It's Just Adorable

She's discovered what Umbrella actually makes. Diana from Pragmata is quite quickly becoming one of the video game faces of 2026, and Capcom is really leaning into it by letting the android hack into the social media channels of its other franchises. Today, she's taken over the Resident Evil social pages. Her self-portrait is the profile picture, she is now supposedly in Raccoon City itself, and the profile banner is Diana hacking the Raccoon City sign while wearing the goggles of Victor Gideon

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Pragmata: How to get the secret ending

Pragmata has an extra scene you can unlock by completing a few extra steps after finishing the game. Here's how to go about it.

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Capcom fan snatches up Pragmata website domain and fills it with Resident Evil memes

One Pragmata player with a keen eye for website domains has taken a fake, unclaimed website from inside the game and made it their own with humorous references to Resident Evil's naughty Albert Wesker.

Eurogamer / Connor Makar

Culture

Pragmata Now Links to Albert Wesker Memes, After Fan Snaps Up In-Game Website

Pragmata publisher Capcom has left another vacant URL in one of its video games — so, of course, a fan has snapped it up.

IGN / Tom Phillips

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Feature: How To Run Pragmata At 1440p on PlayStation 5 - But Should You?

A big improvement over stock 1080p - but frame-rates are impacted. Capcom's brilliant Pragmata ships on the standard PlayStation 5 in both "resolution" and "frame-rate" modes using a native 1080p pixel count, using FSR 1 spatial upscaling for a 4K output. However, if you play the game first on PS5 Pro and use system-level cloud saves to bring your data over to the base console, you get a curious new feature: that base full HD resolution is now QHD - 1440p. It works on both modes and while there

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Pragmata Japan Comedy Reference

There are all sorts of hidden cute moments with Diana and Hugh in Capcom’s Pragmata. But some players have recently spotted a Japanese comedy reference that Diana makes when handling the Globe REM collectable.

IGN / Wesley Yin-Poole

Culture

Pragmata: How to get the Courage in Desperation achievement

AUTOMATON West's guide on how to get the Courage in Desperation achievement in Capcom's Pragmata.

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Pragmata: How to get the Who Needs Guns!? achievement

The Who Needs Guns!? achievement in Pragmata can be acquired in different areas and ways, but here is one of the best spots to do so.

Automaton West / Carlos "Zoto" Zotomayor

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Random: Pragmata Has a Fun Surprise for Patient PS5 Players

Main men-Hugh. Capcom's new game Pragmata is winning hearts now that it's out on PS5, and players are stumbling into a bunch of Easter eggs and fun details. If you'd like to discover these for yourself, be warned, as we'll be posting some below. Read the full article on pushsquare.com

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Pragmata scene where Diana spins a globe is actually a reference to bizarre Japanese comedy act that “definitely doesn’t make sense to Western players”

In a recent viral post, Japanese players pointed out that a visual gag in Pragmata where Diana spins a globe is actually a nod to comedian Gorgeous.

Automaton West / Carlos "Zoto" Zotomayor

Culture

Are Pragmata’s hack-filled shootouts thrilling, or fatiguing? How Capcom’s shooter tackles the age-old challenge of blending action with puzzles

Pragmata is the new third-person moonbase shooter from Capcom in which you play Hugh, a gruff spacedad, with a small girl android named Diana riding around on your back. The game's core gimmick is that Diana can (and, indeed, must) hack the robots you're battling to nix their shields and so forth, using a real-time holographic minigame in which you move around a grid to reach a green square. There are also simpler varieties of hack for opening doors and springing traps.

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PS5 Pro Just Made Pragmata Even Better in New Patch

Update with native PSSR2 support now live. Capcom has pushed a new Pragmata update live today that adds official support for PSSR2 on PS5 Pro. There's some confusion here, as following a technical analysis from Digital Foundry, it was assumed the game already was utilising the newly enhanced feature. However, the Japanese publisher said this fresh patch "adds official support for the upgraded PSSR" and shows an example of it in action on social media. Read the full article on pushsquare.com

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Capcom has thanked Macross and Transformers legend Shoji Kawamori for helping with Pragmata development

Kawamori says he helped with world-building and giving the game an anime-style sci-fi feel

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Pragmata: How to look for Holo-Walls and Mini Cabins

Pointers on how to locate Holo-Walls and Mini Cabins in Pragmata's to unlock achievements and benefits for Hugh and Diana.

Automaton West / Carlos "Zoto" Zotomayor

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Pragmata Looks Best on PS5 Pro, Says Tech Experts

"Another winning case". The tech analysis from experts Digital Foundry is in, and Pragmata delivers another excellent experience on the PS5 Pro. Ever since Sony introduced its upgraded PSSR2 upscaler earlier this year, the supercharged console has been clearing the competition. And much like with Resident Evil Requiem, that remains the case with Hugh and Diana’s brilliant debut. Read the full article on pushsquare.com

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Pragmata Looks Best on PS5 Pro, Say Tech Experts

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Pragmata Sales Have Already Topped 1m, Capcom Announces

Capcom's latest game Pragmata is already cleaning up in sales terms, the publisher announced earlier today.

TechRaptor / Joseph Allen

Business

Pragmata has sold over 1 million copies in just 2 days, after 3 delays dragged out development by 4 years

It's finally here, and it's actually good.

PC Gamer / Rory Norris

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Pragmata surpasses 1m copies sold in just two days

In just two days after release, Capcom's latest game - Pragmata - has surpassed 1m units sold.

Eurogamer / Victoria Phillips Kennedy

Business

New Capcom IP Pragmata an Instant Success, Sells 1 Million Copies

Manages it inside two days. Capcom has confirmed that Pragmata, having released only three days ago, has surpassed one million sales worldwide. The official statement from the publisher announced the fresh PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch 2, and PC release managed to reach the milestone in just two days. It said the title's "highly innovative and original gameplay" has resulted in a "strong reception from players around the globe". With a Metacritic rating of 86 for the PS5 version, critics

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Capcom says Pragmata is off to ‘a strong start’ with 1 million sold in its first two days

The critically acclaimed new IP has already hit the million milestone

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Review: Pragmata On Consoles: Fine on PS5/Series X - But PS5 Pro Is The Best Way To Play

Series S runs well, but image quality and features take a big hit. Capcom's delivery of quality games built on its bespoke RE Engine technology continues with the arrival of Pragmata, delivering a refreshing sci-fi concept based on an AI-gone-rogue on an abandoned space station - eerily reminiscent in some respects of 2008's Dead Space. Heavy on ray tracing and a refined version of Capcom's strand-based hair system, it's a graphically accomplished title - so how does it work out on PlayStation

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Feature: Pragmata On Consoles: Fine on PS5/Series X - But PS5 Pro Is The Best Way To Play

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Space-obsessed Pragmata actor was so wary of breaking embargo that he refused to post about Artemis 2: 'I know so much about the f**king moon'

“My entire career has been around the moon."

PC Gamer / Justin Wagner

Interview

I've already raced through Pragmata 3 times, and it's cemented Capcom's mastery of the modern action game speedrun

A boost-powered sprint through Pragmata demonstrates Capcom’s mastery of melding modern and classic "one more run" arcade design.

PC Gamer / Kerry Brunskill

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13 exquisitely-paced hours with Pragmata

Review: Capcom's fantastic new sci-fi action game keeps building on its own great ideas, and bears the quirks of a development budget well spent

Game File / Stephen Totilo

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