The Korean Rating Board apparently approved 3DS title Resident Evil: Revelations for PS3/Xbox 360. [Thanks Catmario!]
Now the Czech President is appealing to Greece for the release of the imprisoned ArmA 3 devs.
This has been a long legal rodeo, with Japanese authorities cracking down on the sale of R4 cartridges. Things are getting tougher for those gamers in Japan who don’t want to pony up cash for their games. R4 cartridges are devices that allow gamers to play pirated games on their Nintendo handhelds, which is why…
Politicians with, let’s say, interesting backgrounds are nothing new. People have entered politics from acting, modeling, and, yes, even hardcore pornography. Jobs are jobs. Politics, however, is a calling. Rie Sasaki is answering that call. What makes Sasaki so noteworthy is that she could be Japan’s first elected official that has gone from Akihabara street…
For years now, Square Enix has published the Call of Duty games in Japan. Square Enix honcho Yoichi Wada is apparently a big fan of the series—and Western games. His goal is apparently to make Japanese gamers more open to playing foreign titles. That’s admirable. It would be more admirable if the company didn’t keep…
Ratings agency Fitch just downgraded Sony to “junk”, Reuters reports
On 2ch, Japan’s largest bulletin, a thread popped up with the title, “Concrete Proof of One Piece‘s Plagiarism lulz”. In this thread, an image showed seemed to detail how One Piece continues to knock off Disney and Tim Burton. Or does it? In the above gallery, you can see comparisons from that thread. Most of…
Japanese animation is loved all over the world. From Cleveland to China, there are anime fans everywhere. But one unlucky young anime fan in Guangdong didn’t watch just anime. She saw something she never should’ve. Earlier this month, an eleven-year old girl in the Guangdong region of China asked her mom to buy a Puella…
Yes, the internet is awash with do-it-yourself Iron Man helmets. That’s okay, because d.i.y. Iron Man helmets are rad This Mark III Iron Man Helmet was painstakingly moulded, sculpted, sanded, and then painted in a highly laborious and time consuming process. It took around a year to complete! The finished helmet, which is motorized and…
Japan’s most often delayed console game, Daisenryaku Perfect, has gotten its seventh release date: Spring 2013
The Wii U is out in North America, but Japan will have to wait until December to get the new Nintendo console. To build hype, Nintendo is now running commercials for the hardware. But that’s not the only game in town. There are entire channels filled to the brim with wonderful Japanese commercials. Some of…
The new Call of Duty: Black Ops II update fixes the Theater Mode error and the Scorestreak snafus.
Call it going full circle. Back in 2004, a Japanese game show called Run for Money appeared on FujiTV. The show had flourishes of The Matrix and a central premise that seemed more like a video game than a game show. Now in 2012, Run for Money has finally been turned into a hit 3DS…
Making it in the Japanese entertainment industry ain’t easy. You need to stand out! And being cute is no longer enough. Just ask BiS. The group’s name stands for “Brand-new Idol Society”, and the girls have been doing an array of publicity stunts to build a fan base. Their latest? Auctioning themselves off to be…
According to the unpublished issue of this week’s Famitsu, Sega is launching a sequel to last year’s role-playing game 7th Dragon 2020 (pictured). The game will be out next spring. The sequel is apparently called 7th Dragon 2020-II and is set in the year 2021. The PSP game will feature a new job class (idols!)…
The morning commute in Tokyo (or Osaka, or Yokohama, or any other huge Japanese city) can totally bite. As if you already didn’t know that. Photographer Michael Wolf documents that in his latest volume of Tokyo Compression. For years now, Wolf has been snapping photos from a train platform, capturing the cramped conditions of the…
It’s called Monster Monpiece, and it’s a card-based game. That’s fine and all until you realize that it’s from Compile Heart, the folks behind Hyperdimension Neptunia. Oh, and that you have to stroke your PS Vita to play it. Developer Compile Heart loves making deliciously subversive games, and Monster Monpiece looks to be no exception.…
A generation of Japanese girls (and, yes, boys) grew up watching the original Sailor Moon anime and reading the manga. No wonder Sailor Moon has become so iconic. No wonder people love dressing up as the characters. What made Sailor Moon so revolutionary when it debuted in the early 1990s is that it reworked both…
Heads up! Hulu Plus is now live on the Wii U. More here
Square Enix’s Galaxy Dungeon is a new iOS/Android card battle game that features female mecha.
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