In Japanese games and anime, there are often character archetypes you will see again and again the more you watch.…
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Richard Eisenbeis
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Japanese Correspondent. Player of Japan-first and Japan-only games. Watcher of way too much anime. Occasional streamer.
When the summer 2013 anime season started early last month, I told you a little bit about each anime and where to…
Over the years there have been some great (and terrible) Gundam games. But while many games let you pilot a Gundam, G…
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Gundam Breaker, the newest Gundam video game, is all about building your own custom Gundam. More often than not,…
Halfway through the spring anime season, I wrote two articles covering nine anime—the five anime you should be…
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About a month back, the PlayStation 3 got its newest Gundam video game. But unlike past Gundam video games, this one…
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Late last week we took a look at the scores of famous Capcom characters that have gotten samurai redesigns in the…
A few weeks back, I received an email from a reader who was blind in one eye and wanted to know how the Oculus Rift…
Ever wonder how Capcom’s greatest heroes and heroines would look as samurai? Or ninja? Or geisha? Well now is your…
Midway through the spring anime season, I called Henneko: The “Hentai” Prince and the Stony Cat one of the anime you…
As a gamer, I rarely play in short chunks. I'd rather play hours at a time. So ever since I learned of Oculus Rift,…
Just over a week ago, Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies, the first main series Ace Attorney game in over five years, was…
As the spring anime season hit its mid-way point, I called Red Data Girl one of the five anime you should be watching
Devil Survivor 2:The Animation is an anime based on the 2011 DS game Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 2. A few…
A month or so back, I got to spend an hour with the Oculus Rift VR headset—most of which I spent swooning over Portal 2
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When I was a kid, I had a poster of an F-14 Tomcat hanging on my wall. It was my favorite airplane. Then I watched R…
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While the release of Dragon's Crown in North America is still a few weeks away, Vanillaware's newest title hit…
Back in the middle of the spring anime season, I called Valvrave: The Liberator one of the five anime you should be…
Late last month, If My Heart Had Wings, a winner of several visual novel related awards, was released in the United…
This past weekend, The Wind Rises (風立ちぬ), the newest film from acclaimed director Hayao Miyazaki was released in…