Tokyo Train 4

Maybe you're taking a break from Father's Day gift shopping to see what you missed on your favorite Gawker Media…

It has come to my attention that we might, within a few short years, find ourselves living on a planet devoid of…

This past weekend, collectible figurine event Wonder Festival was held in Chiba, Japan. Collectors and cosplayers…

Motion control neither revitalized nor ruined video games in 2010, the year when finally everyone was doing it. You…

I've always been quite sensitive to certain types of friction. (I considered writing that sentence 10 different…

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.…

Well, I've played twenty-five hours of Final Fantasy XIII in the past few days, and the one thing I can say with…

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…