By far the most common complaint I’ve heard about Pokémon Black and White 2 is the fact that Black 2 and White 2 were released on last generation’s Nintendo DS even though the Nintendo 3DS has been on the market since last year. Frankly, I find this a complaint with little to no merit. Here’s…
Mobile Suit Gundam: Battle Operation is a free-to-play, multiplayer, third-person shooter on the PlayStation 3. In the game, you join either the Earth Federation or Zeon along with eleven other players for six versus six team-based combat. To win, you capture points, destroy the other side’s mobile suits, and destroy your enemy’s main base. Win…
Crazy Fairies: One World is the newest game by American McGee’s Spicy Horse studio. Inspired by fairy tales from across the world, Crazy Fairies is a multiplayer social game that can be simultaneously played across web browsers as well as iOS, and Android devices in real time. The game itself plays like Worms or Scorched…
There have been a lot of games in the Pokémon series but none has been a direct sequel to any other. Rather, they have each focused on a different region in the world with a unique adventure largely unrelated to any other one. However, this all changes with the first direct sequels in the series,…
Way back in 1999, a friend of mine gave me an ancient gray brick of a Game Boy and a very used copy of Pokémon Red while we were on a middle school field trip. An eighth grader, I already knew myself to be “too old” for Pokémon. After all, I was already into games…
Going into Pokémon Black and White 2, I had high hopes for the game. This wasn’t for the new aspects of the game like Pokéwood (Pokémon Hollywood) or even the chance to explore new areas of the world. No, the thing I was most excited to see was the return of Team Plasma. In each…
Two weeks ago, the first ever numbered Pokémon sequels, Pokémon White Version 2 and Pokémon Black Version 2, were released in Japan. As the name implies, these games mark the first time players spend an entire game returning to a region from a previous title and seeing how the region has progressed. In Pokémon Black…
This year, the big center piece at Capcom Summer Jam was a giant booth dedicated to Resident Evil 6 with a demo allowing players to spend time as either Leon, Chris, or series newcomer, Jake. In my first time in the booth, I chose to play as Chris—who seems to have decided to lay off…
Back in 2005 to combat the success of Koei’s Dynasty Warriors series, Capcom released Sengoku BASARA on the PlayStation 2. Where Dynasty Warriors had always been focused on Chinese history, BASARA set out to do the same thing but with Japanese history. However, Koei had already done the same thing by releasing Samurai Warriors the…
This last weekend in Tokyo, Capcom put on a little event called Capcom Summer Jam. In it they showed off a large portion of their upcoming and recently released titles. Foremost among these was the first playable demo of Okami HD—which Kotaku East was on hand to play. Originally released back in 2006, Okami was…
Capcom Summer Jam, Capcom’s own mini-Tokyo Game Show, happened this last weekend in Japan. Inside the show, Capcom showed off its biggest new and recently released titles in playable form. Among the upcoming titles were Resident Evil 6, the Sengoku BASARA HD Collection, and the first playable demo of Okami HD. The recently released titles…
This last weekend Berserk Golden Age Arc II: The Battle for Doldrey was released in theaters across Japan. It is the second film in a trilogy planned to adapt the first story arc of popular Japanese manga Berserk I previously reviewed the first film in the series Berserk Golden Age Arc I: The Egg of…
Guild01 isn’t like Professor Layton, Dragon Quest IX or any other of Level-5’s recent big-named titles. Rather it’s a budget anthology title sporting not one but four different—and completely unrelated—games by three famous developers (and one comedian). But despite that selling point, Guild01 has completely failed to capture the interest of the Japanese market, selling…
Earlier this month, we took an in-depth look at Square Enix’s trading card-based, RTS arcade game, Lord of Vermillion. While arguably the most popular game of this type, it is far from the only one—or the first one, for that matter. Collectible trading card arcade games have covered everything from real world sports to Gundam…
Level-5’s newest title, Guild01, is four games in one. Each of the four was made by a famous game creator (or in one case a comedian) and are completely unrelated in every way. The first is Liberation Girl (Kaiho Shojou), a 3D shooter designed by Suda51 that falls along the same lines of Kid Icarus…
Level-5’s newest game, Guild01, isn’t really one game, but rather four games in one. Each of these games was created by a different director and have nothing in common other than the cartridge they come on. But what is most interesting about these games are the men behind them. Three of them are famous developers…
Japan loves Spider-Man. I mean they LOVE him. It’s not the same with other American superheroes—Batman, Superman, and most of the recent Marvel movies tend to do poorly in at the Japanese box office. Even Avengers didn’t get a major push in the Japanese media until after it proved to be a financial success in…
Berserk is a manga epic that’s been twenty years in the making and is still going strong. What started as a low-fantasy tale of a band of medieval mercenaries and their leader who dreamed of becoming king has long since become something far darker and more twisted. Back in 1997, Berserk‘s first story arc was…
Mobile Suit Gundam Extreme VS, the tenth game in the Gundam VS series, is the most popular home and portable console fighting game of this generation in Japan. It’s also practically unheard of in the West. And while those outside of Japan may think that Extreme VS is nothing more than a cheap tie-in game,…
Gundam is a massive franchise in Japan. There have been twelve TV series, scores of video games, numerous movies and direct-to-video releases—and let’s not even get started on all the different manga. So despite its cultural footprint—or perhaps because of it—Gundam is an intimidating beast, to say the least. There are so many series to…
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