Free-to-play role-playing-game Final Fantasy Brave Exvius will be turned into a musical for the stage next March.
Located in Kawasaki, the arcade Anata no Warehouse (“Your Warehouse”) was designed to look like Hong Kong’s Kowloon…
Out of nowhere, it was revealed that the character Lisa in the Bang Dream media franchise has a younger brother.…
Forty-four-year-old Tadaaki Abe has been arrested in Kagawa, Japan, for modding a PlayStation 3 and then selling it.
Back in December 2015, Hideo Kojima announced that he was setting up his own studio, Kojima Productions. He had…
This isn’t the first pair of One Piece shoes from Puma. The first collab was based on the Straw Hat Pirates ship the…
Founded in 2000, AlphaDream was originally known as Alpha Star and was staffed with people who had formerly been at S…
Don’t expect a Hollywood version of Nausicaä. As NHK reports, Hayao Miyazaki has turned down that offer. But you can…
One of Japan’s greatest, if not the greatest, manga creators is having his work tapped into with the power of AI.…
Remember pagers? Maybe not! If you were around in the 1990s, you might’ve carried a pager in case someone wanted to…
In 2005, Brain Age first went on sale in Japan for the Nintendo DS. The game, which had players solve math problems…
The brand new Pokémon TV anime will star not one, but two trainers as the main protagonists.
If you are steeped in SNK fighting game lore, then you are more than familiar with Terry Bogard. If you’ve never…
Shoji Kawamori’s career in anime has spanned four decades. While still in his teens, Kawamori joined the industry in…
This is Hamako Mori. At 89, she’s not new to video games. She has been playing them for nearly four decades.
If there’s one thing Yoshitaka Murayama knows better than most people in the world, it’s how to bring Japanese…
Between 2002 and 2012, Bandai Namco released a mainline Tales game almost every year, save for 2006 and 2010. After…
The Sega Genesis Mini is small, but these capsule versions are even smaller. Sure, they don’t play games, but…
During the Tokyo Game Show, legendary Street Fighter player Momochi forfeited tens of thousands of dollars in prize…
Next April, an esports-themed hotel will open in Osaka’s geek district Nipponbashi. Called Esports Hotel E-Zone…