Catch the Stars: Japan

I’ve fallen into a pop-cultural rut: Dunno why, but I feel incapable of ingesting new media that isn’t part of my…

Early September, 1999. Britney Spears dominated the airwaves, fear of the Y2K bug hung in the air, and my teenage…

It’s flu and cold season. That means people in Japan are wearing sickness masks in public. Either they are ill or…

Early in Kingdom Hearts III, series primary protagonist Sora returns to his spaceship with his Duck Dad Donald and…

First time visitors notice them right away: Sickness masks. People in Japan wear them for numerous reasons,…

2017 was the year that esports became harder to ignore than ever, even for the sports blog readers who are desperate…

This weekend held many different events in some of the biggest esports, from League of Legends and Street Fighter to …

There’s an old commercial for Westwood College that’s become something of a running joke in the video game world.…

After nearly three years of letting Wii U owners in North America and Japan awkwardly interact with cable and…

Pokémon Rumble World, a game likely to rank a distant third in the eventual list of 2015’s best Pokémon games, has…