The past few years produced a huge amount of great games and a surprisingly decent amount of them have well-developed characters that are hard to forget. And, of course, some of them look really attractive.

There's a fundamental difference between Japanese and Western gaming that starts at the very beginning of the creative process.

Earlier this month we visited taverns and bars that are noisy and dangerous.

With Valentine's Day putting us all in a romantic mood it was our duty to gather some of the defining aaaawww moments video games offer.

Sex sells. Except when it doesn't.

Back in summer 2011, Japanese figure maker Max Factory showed off one sexy Catherine statue. This summer, it's Art Spirits' turn with a sexy figure of its own.

This week, there's a good amount of solid stuff new at the PlayStation store; it ain't the horn of plenty that we've seen in the past, but it's certainly better than the cursed wasteland that was last week's PlayStation Store update.

The Catherine box art featuring the game's titular character gets a Mass Effect send-up. Artist Nobunaga-chan reinvented it with Commander Shephard and Garrus for this "Catherine Shephard".