This weekend, it was announced that Daigo Umehara, one of the greatest Street Fighter players of all time, had…
In a move that should surprise no one, anime studio Khara has delayed the upcoming Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a…
If you’ve got to wear a mask (and you do), it might as well be a super-cool, high-tech mask with a translucent…
The winter Wonder Festival, the biannual garage kit model event held in Tokyo, has been canceled. The event was supposed to be held on February 7, but was nixed due since a state of emergency has been declared because of covid-19.
A new allocation of PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X / S bundles brought crowds of hopeful customers to physical…
The 2021 edition of annual Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike tournament Cooperation Cup has been canceled. Japanese organizer Yasuaki Matsuda and Capcom came to this decision after a recent uptick in covid-19 cases. We await your return, warrior.
The first Covid-19 vaccines began being distributed in the US today, and amidst the rollout Surgeon General Dr.…
According to Japanese publication Friday, voice actress Rika Matsumoto is under fire for alleged suspicious acts…
Yesterday, Ubisoft confirmed that an upcoming gameplay event in The Division 2, Codename Nightmare, has been…
Some call it a hoax. Others say it’s no worse than the common cold. But make no mistake: the covid-19 pandemic is…
Immortalized in the opening of anime Durarara!!x2 Ten, the Silk Hat arcade in Tokyo’s Ikebukuro has announced it is closing on January 11, 2021. This is the latest in a number of arcades closing in Japan that are closing during the pandemic.
NCSoft, coming off its baseball team’s championship win, is shutting down their South Korean headquarters after a positive covid-19 case emerged. The country’s Ministry of Health and Welfare is doing contact tracing and sanitizing the office, while employees will work remotely until November 26. [Thanks Sang for the…
In Japan, the global pandemic has led to some—but certainly not all—Japanese companies have employees work from…
We were all expecting most 2020 conventions to have been cancelled, but the complete inability of most of the…
The most successful video game about spreading disease got a long-promised new mode today that lets you try to stop…
Voice actor Kenyu Horiuchi, who voices Metal Gear Solid’s Raiden in Japan, has tested positive for covid-19. The 63-year-old is asymptomatic, and thus, not showing signs of a fever or cough. Horiuchi also voiced Ivan Raidenovitch Raikov in the Japanese version of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater.
This has been a bad year for Tokyo arcades. The one-two punch of the global pandemic and Japan’s travel ban has…
Sega is selling its arcade business to Genda, a Tokyo-based company involved in arcade game rentals and online crane…