About 2:45 p.m. Japan time today, an 8.8 magnitude earthquake rocked the island nation. A devastating tsunami followed, rolling over cities, enveloping towns. Reports now put the death toll at 300 to 400, with at least another 350 missing.

Reports from Japan are coming in from those who were in the middle of the tumult and those in Tokyo, where Xevious game designer Masanobu Endo tweeted how he thought a Roppongi Hills skyrise was going to topple over.

CyberConnect's Hiroshi Matsuyama is going as far as opening his studio to complete strangers via Twitter, saying there is a television, beverages and some food. Matsuyama provides the studio's address, saying there is enough space for about thirty people and asking for replies via Twitter. With the phone lines affected by the quake, Facebook and Twitter became the go-to for many to get in touch.

The image above shows deserted Tokyo streets, but was not taken by a professional photographer. It was taken by a video game designer, Masahiro Sakurai — the man responsible for Super Smash Bros.

Sakurai noted the lack of cars as he posted the image on Twitter. He wasn't the only Japanese game developer to do so. The entire Japanese game industry seemed to take to Twitter, like Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima, who let others know he was okay, like No More Heroes designer Goichi Suda, who warned others, or even like Last Guardian designer Fumito Ueda, who checked if others were okay. One Japanese game exec even apparently rescued a "helpless" junior high schoolgirl.