Are you a working dude? A popular working dude? If not, you might be giving off telltale signs to your female colleagues that you are not popular. Japanese research website Otome Sugoren » 11/23/12 7:00am 11/23/12 7:00am (via ) regularly polls its women readers and has come up with the seven most popular ways women (in Japan, at least) know that a…

Do you like pachinko? Do you have a 3DS? Well I've got some good news for you. Japanese game maker IREM will be releasing a new game on the 3DS called Pachinko Parlor 3D: The Open Sea Stories 2 » 7/10/12 4:20am 7/10/12 4:20am.

Blogger and financial investor, Ichirou Yamamoto recently wrote for website 4Gamer » 4/12/12 7:00am 4/12/12 7:00am on the danger and "slot machine-like" gambling nature of mobile and social games.

Those looking to drop some money on pachinko can head to their neighborhood parlor in the hope of winning some extra scratch. Those looking to spend ¥7,000 (US$85) and win nothing but satisfaction, get this. » 11/12/10 7:00am 11/12/10 7:00am

Pachinko? Boring. One of our least favourite types of gaming. A pachinko machine with adorable little Ghostbusters and an official license, though, well, now we are interested. » 6/01/10 5:30am 6/01/10 5:30am

A small percentage of Japanese housewives lose themselves in torrid love affairs. An even tinier percentage become heavily addicted to online games, a new book claims. » 4/12/10 6:00am 4/12/10 6:00am

The Japanese population is shrinking. Birthrates have been dropping for the past two decades, and the country needs more babies. The Japanese government is attempting to push through a national child subsidy program. Enter pachinko. » 3/11/10 6:00am 3/11/10 6:00am

Did you realize there's a pachinko game on the iPhone? Did you realize that you should care that there's a pachinko game on the iPhone? » 12/24/08 4:00pm 12/24/08 4:00pm

Street Fighter » 9/08/08 8:40pm 9/08/08 8:40pm mainstay Chun-Li is getting her own pachislot game, courtesy of manufacturer Enterrise and it's... well, it's pachislot, so I'm genetically incapable of being excited about the prospect of such a thing. The game looks to feature Chun-Li in various mission-based situations, presumably all of which can be…

Sega has reported their financial results for the first quarter of the 2009 financial year, and while the video games segment of their business saw sales growth of 90.6%, the company is still reporting a $963 million loss. The problem? Those pesky Pachinko machines. With an operating income loss of $29 million and an… » 8/06/08 11:20am 8/06/08 11:20am

In Japan, it's pretty common for video games to have pachinko machines. Heck! Movies, anime and manga character even get pachinko machines based on them. It's not just spinning metal balls! New pachinko machines even feature large LCD-type displays to keep players engaged. Pachinko maker Yamasa's Resident Evil machine… » 6/27/08 7:00am 6/27/08 7:00am

In Japan, lots of video games get turned into pachinko or pachislot machines. No biggie! SNK, Sega and Konami have all spun off selected titles into pachinko parlors across the country. So when a rumor popped up that Square Enix was doing the same for Final Fantasy XIII, it did seem possible that, yes, Japan would be… » 6/20/08 5:00am 6/20/08 5:00am

Corporate confusions! When Harvest Moon developer Natsume decided to found a pachinko company a few years back, it could've picked any name for the new company. Natsume didn't and instead gave the pachinko company a corporate game moniker we all know: Atari. Here's what the CEO of Atari Inc. says about the company's… » 6/02/08 9:00am 6/02/08 9:00am