Japan
Nintendo Announces Super Nintendo World Focused Nintendo Direct for 12/18
Back in 2011, Nintendo launched their first Nintendo Direct. This marked a new beginning for Nintendo, and how they would showcase upcoming releases. Nintendo Direct’s have gone through many iterations in the past 9 years. Some examples include the Indie World Showcase, and Nintendo Direct Mini. Each iteration has had a common theme; a major focus on video games. Today Nintendo officially br...[Read More]
Home Is Where You Can Play D&D
I just came back from a year of working in Tokyo. While that might sound like a great, interesting experience, it was also an isolating one. See, my Japanese is mediocre at best and Tokyo is much like New York City; busy, impersonal, unfriendly, and sometimes hostile, though in a more passive-aggressive way than NYC. Between the language barrier, Japanese shyness, and a fairly prevalent distrust o...[Read More]
Weathering With You (Film) Review
Heartfelt stories seem to fit into the anime film medium really well and that trend continues with the anime feature film Weathering With You.
Jail Time and Fines for Japanese Modders
Ever since the creation of video games, gamers around the world have looked for ways to gain advantages in varying video games. Over time, the advantage types have changed to suit the player’s needs. Advantages or cheating, as other players call it, have been around since the invention of video games. With old arcade games, players could play long times by using the old quarter string exploi...[Read More]
Pokémon GO Fest to Return to Chicago This July
While the first Pokémon GO Fest in Chicago of last year was a disaster that ended in a $1,575,000 lawsuit after trainers ran into connectivity issue after connectivity issue that made it quite difficult or impossible to catch any Pokémon at the event, Niantic is ready to try again with Pokémon GO Fest 2018: A Walk in the Park. On July 14th and 15th of 2018, Pokemon Trainers from around the world w...[Read More]
Hyakki Castle Reveals 2-Party Split Combat, Monsters of Japanese Myt
“Never split the party.” It’s wisdom handed down from generations of RPG experience, and reinforced in almost every horror movie, and every episode of Scooby Doo. Now upcoming 3D real-time dungeon runner RPG Hyakki Castle has decided to flip that bit of time honored advice on its head, with an entire combat system built around splitting the party. Madness!
Aksys Games Brings Drive Girls to North American PS Vita
As a racing game fan, I’m always on the lookout for fresh takes on the standard driving formula. Aksys Games is definitely bringing something different to North America with a localized version of Japanese PS Vita title Drive Girls, scheduled to release on September 8th.
Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun Headed to Consoles
Kalypso Media has announced that they will be publishing Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun, a real-time tactics game from Daedalic Entertainment and Mimimi Productions, on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Originally released on Steam in 2016 to very positive reception, Shadow Tactics allows you to simultaneously control up to five characters in ancient Japan. Each of the five characters brings with ...[Read More]
Takenoko Review
I love board games probably as much as I love video games. There is something magical about sitting at a table with all of your friends, rolling dice, playing cards, and laughing as a rascally panda eats the bamboo you’ve been trying so hard to grow. Well, that got pretty specific pretty fast. Let me tell you about Takenoko.
Review: Rugby World Cup 2011 (360)
Rugby World Cup 2011 is a game that is unsure of its identity. I mean, can you really call a game Rugby World Cup 2011 if it only has 10 of the 20 teams licensed to appear in the game? Is it really Rugby World Cup 2011 with only half of the participants of the actual Rugby World Cup 2011?
Buy Cool Stuff, Help Japan!
SEGA of America and the American Red Cross are teaming up to aid efforts to help the people in Japan affected by the recent tsunami. SEGA is auctioning off collectors items through ebay, and 100% of the proceeds of the auction will be donated to the American Red Cross.
Darren Aronofsky Bids Farewell To The Wolverine
I’m a fan of Darren Aronofsky. He knows what he’s doing, and he tends to surround himself with people who, in turn, know what they’re doing. This combination produces the results we’ve seen from Aronofsky. That being said, I had no idea how he would tackle a movie like Wolverine. As time passed, and more was revealed about the plot, I started hoping that Aronofsky’s T...[Read More]
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