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Brian Ashcraft
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Originally from Texas, Ashcraft has called Osaka home since 2001. He has authored six books, including most recently, The Japanese Sake Bible.

Agreed. One of my favorite games ever. Read more

I freakin’ LOVED Rocket Jockey. If ever a game needed a reboot, that’s the one. The modern multiplayer/streaming landscape is perfectly suited to the game; It’s entertaining as hell to watch. It’s a skill game balanced by “lol, rekt!” sheer chance/luck moments that can act as an equalizer. And it’s the kind of game Read more

The only thing remaining here is making sure characters’ hair colors are accurate. With SAO there’s a unique opportunity for the characters’ IRL hair to be black (as it so often is in Japan), but for their digital avatars to have all kinds of fancy shmancy hair colors. Read more

Damn, that’s like SUPER progressive for Japan. Read more

I had the privilege of working in London when I was in college, back in 2003. I’d only recently hit legal drinking age (and I was the sort of fuddy-dud who didn’t drink prior to turning 21, apart from one particularly memorable party back in high school), and still associated beer with bars and sit-down restaurants.

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This is fucking brilliant. Bravo japanese dude on twitter! Read more

Gaming marathons are not worth it, people! Read more

Well I guess you only need One Piece when doing the deed.
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I have to say that after spending well over an hour crafting the perfect, withered, Lovecraftian protagonist for Bloodborne, seeing how (at the risk of sounding hyperbolic) last-gen his in-game facial model looked was a bit of a letdown. Read more

As someone who spends more time in the character creator than the game, I totally empathise here. I absolutely HATE when that creation doesn’t turn out the same in the in-game engine. Especially when I have to play through some 20 minute intro before I can even see them (side eyes Destiny). Read more

That’s great ! I mean, “Goku Sanchez” is ridiculous, but I’m sure that guy’s so happy right now, and “Goku” is by far better than many names I’ve heard recently.
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This is kinda funny but they seriously need to give him a “normal” middle name, so if he doesn’t want to go through life as Goku he can just start going by his middle name. Read more

Funny! Just yesterday I posted a video of my cat doing exactly that: Read more

Evo needs to crack down on performance enhancing masks. Read more

Stuff like this is why I don’t want to see e-sports get “too” professional. I love stupid crap like this. Read more