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…
There’s something about Black Friday that seems to bring out the worst in GameStop’s corporate leadership, and this…
While movie theaters in the United States are in jeopardy, theaters in Japan just saw their biggest box office…
The COVID-19 pandemic has turned schools into a very different place, with numerous countries closing schools or…
Typically, parts of Tokyo are overrun with tourists. These are not typical times.
The Xbox Series X comes out in November, probably around the same time as the PS5 if Sony ever gets around to…
Tokyo discount store Takeya has launched a “smile campaign” with staff wearing masks emblazoned with photos of their…
We still don’t know how much the PS5 will cost nor its exact release date, but in a new interview Sony executive…
In pre-pandemic Japan, mask-wearing was a way of life. If you got sick, the polite thing to do was wear a mask to…
Gundams and their pilots are here to remind us all not to lose faith in our shared humanity.
Yesterday, Governor Hirofumi Yoshimura claimed that gargling with diluted povidone-iodine solution prevents patients…
Gaming products love LED. If a company wants to make a gaming PC, a gaming keyboard, or a gaming mouse,…
EA’s latest hockey game, NHL 21, won’t be out until October this year, and it’s not going to have a special version…
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