Think: Train Your Brain

My current least favorite part of the modern video game is when it tells me to stop having fun for a few minutes so…

The most common email response I received to my previous column ("Japan: It's Not Funny Anymore") was a perplexed…

I've lived in Japan for a long time. When I first came here, I liked living here. Now, I don't. I haven't changed.…

Will Wright was on a recon mission on Tuesday in New York City. On a snowy day on Manhattan's West Side, one of…

You press a button; a character on the television screen jumps. You press the same button again, while the on-screen…

This morning a videogame literally forced me to say "I love you", enunciating every syllable perfectly, clearly…

Bob Dylan once told a journalist that the first time he heard a recording of Elvis Presley singing "That's All…

Pokemon, aka "Pocket Monster Trainer", is the undisputed Biggest Video Game Property currently existing in the…

When we were children, we wanted two things: a Super Mario Bros. movie and a Final Fantasy fighting game; we got one…

I played Dragon Quest IX for the Nintendo DS this weekend at the Shueisha Jump Festa event in Chiba. Then I felt The…