User blog comment:Goregutz619/future activities and mystery unvieled/@comment-4932025-20140415113025

Togashi playing DQ is not a rumor, you can see him on that photo playing DQ1.

and he also wrote some words about DQ9 it in the "authors" section of WSJ.

http://hunterxhunter.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:MrGenial11/Yoshihiro_Togashi%27s_addiction_to_Dragon_Quest_and_Final_Fantasy