The first Parasyte movie (first of 2) premiered last week and I went in hoping that I would be wrong. Long story short: I wasn’t. I’ve said it before that the original Parasyte manga is one of my all-time favorites. Author Hitoshi Iwaaki’s masterpiece quite literally helped define me as a person and I am…
The latest Smash Bros. came out on the 3DS in Japan on September 13th, 3 weeks before its release in the West. The Wii U version came out in the US last week. It won’t be out in Japan for another week. What gives? In his semi-weekly column in Weekly Famitsu, series creator Masahiro Sakurai…
The death of the Dreamcast was a sad event and the end of an era. But every cloud has a silver lining. The console’s demise led to the eventual birth of a game series that would probably never have been released on it: the Yakuza games. “I, along with many others assumed, ‘[Sony]’s new to…
“Final…” You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. Coming in 2015 as part of its Final Fantasy lineup, Square Enix has announced 2 new Final Fantasy games and a new app. Famitsu App reports that Final Fantasy Legends – Crystal of Time and Final Fantasy Brave…
Batman’s cool. Not only is he the smartest guy in the room, but he’s got fancy tech and gadgets to boot. And this set truly captures the arsenal at the disposal of the Caped Crusader®. Plus some extra. It’s finally here. From Hong Kong collectible toy company Hot Toys, here’s the Batman Armory from The…
I consider myself a fan of the open world video game genre. Give me a playground and I shall play. Then along comes D3 Publisher announcing a new open world game and I immediately became a mixture of intrigued, bemused, and perturbed all at the same time. From the game publisher that brought you games…
The manga may be over, but the gag art lives on. Note: Images in this article contain spoilers for Naruto It’s pretty much a law of nature that anything that reaches a certain level of popularity is subject to parody and internet memedom. However, with the popular shonen manga, Naruto, the cut-and-paste collages – called…
According to the numbers, the champ boxer may not be as good as some believe. Smash Bros. will be getting a patch sometime this month to fix the game balance. While the exact details of what will be tweaked have not yet been revealed, a lot of players are probably hoping that one of the…
The New Nintendo 3DS is out in Japan, and it’s a fine upgrade to an already decent piece of hardware. With improved head tracking 3D, a second analog C stick and 2 extra shoulder buttons, the new handheld aims to please – and it looks like the people are pleased indeed. Weekly Famitsurecently conducted an…
Look at this beautiful train car. Look at it. Ton, who uses the twitter handle @ton_kenji, loves trains. As a former game developer, part of his former job consisted of making CG train cars. Over a year ago, he undertook the personal project of recreating a 103 series passenger train car in CG and yesterday,…
This is the Monster Hunter game you’ve been waiting for. If you’ve been waiting. Monster Hunter is hands down one of Japan’s biggest video game franchises. The game pretty much single-handedly set both the PSP and later on the 3DS as the dominant handheld consoles in Japan. Now, with the release of Monster Hunter 4…
For those of you who don’t understand that newfangled moonspeak that is Japanese. Last week, Square Enix released a stream where Final Fantasy XV art director Yusuke Naora and world map director Yasuyuki Matsunami talked with a host about just how friggin huge the world of FFXV was The visuals were impressive and all, but…
You saw the 15 minute JapaneseYakuza Zerotrailer. Now you can understand it. Sega has made no announcement for an international release of their latest Yakuza game, but that didn’t stop us from translating and putting English subtitles to the dramatic story trailer. Check it out below. Note: With no script or Japanese subtitles, I had…
Director Masahiro Sakurai reflects on his workload on the latest Super Smash Bros., and holy hell, what a workload it is. Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS is out and Super Smash Bros. for Wii U is almost complete. In his latest column in Weekly Famitsu, Sakurai took a moment to reflect on the development…
I’ve been waiting a year for this. (cue the Black Sabbath music) Since the announcement of Hong Kong collectible toy company’s ambitious new Movie Masterpiece Diecast line of figures – figures that use actual metal parts – I’ve spent countless hours oogling over the images of theIron Man 3 Mark XLII suit. I almost immediately…
Japan’s popular series about life inside video games is getting another game. It lets you fly. Sword Art Online is a story with multiple arcs, perhaps the most famous being its initial story involving a game of death where players are trapped inside an MMO and dying in the game means dying in real life.…
For their upcoming fighting game, Dead or Alive 5: Last Round, the developers at Tecmo Koei have created a new engine to bring their characters to life. Called the “Yawaraka Engine” (やわらかエンジン) or “Softness Engine,” it is the result of attempting to up the visual realism of character skin in order to make characters look…
Japan’s grizzly sci-fi action manga is getting a video game adaptation. Following in the footsteps of the hit manga series, Attack on Titan, the manga series that has bug-powered humans fighting giant Martian cockroaches,Terraformars is getting its own 3DS game. Labeled as a single-player “3D battle action” genre game, Terraformars: Battle on the Crimson Star…
With Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS out, creator Masahiro Sakurai’s job is only half done. When one fan asked him how it felt to be done with the development on Super Smash Bros., he replied, “I’m not done yet…” “Game development is very hard.” Sakurai went on in his column in Weekly Famitsu. “You…
Now that he’s no longer helmingFinal Fantasy XV, Tetsuya Nomura seems to have a lot of free time to work on other projects. The Nomura version of Japanese virtual idol, Hatsune Miku, is currently on display in New York until the 19th as part of a Hatsune Miku art exhibit. Asked by Weekly Famitsu in…
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