21-year-old Cayla Campos has been shot and killed after witnessing an armed robbery in Albuquerque, New Mexico, last…
A 27-year-old university student has been arrested in Fukui, Japan, after selling phony Yu-Gi-Oh cards at a flea…
A 35-year-old resident of Okayama, Japan is in police custody after making death threats to Hideaki Anno’s Studio…
The crackdown on Australian esports has already begun, but a report from the ABC this morning has raised the stakes…
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Crime is serious stuff. But everyone once and while, some Japanese TV news stations make it as goofy as possible.
A 25-year-old man has been arrested after sending threatening messages to Osaka-based visual novel company Visual…
Starting this weekend, there were supposed to be events for mecha arcade game Starwing Paradox at four cities across…
Kyle “Bugha” Giersdorf, the newly-crowned 16 year-old Fortnite World Cup solo champion, was playing the game in a…
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A fire, suspected to be arson, at a Kyoto, Japan animation studio has left at least 36 people dead and hospitalized…
A 33-year-old man has been arrested by the Tokyo police after he allegedly stole 34 Duel Masters cards worth 1.5…
Conley Woods, a former Magic: The Gathering pro and contributor to the game’s official website, has been arrested in…
In August 2018, someone on eBay paid $60,000 for a very rare Pokemon card. It’s now almost a year later, the card…
The Yakuza games and their spin-offs have long starred some of Japan’s biggest celebrities. Now that some of those…
I was driving fast in a ugly sedan. The police were chasing me and I was trying to lose them. I had robbed a home…
In Mie Prefecture, a 26-year-old man has been arrested for suspected theft after security camera footage showed the…
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A Russian national is currently being held in Weber County, Utah, after being arrested and charged with “conspiring…
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Taiko no Tatsujin is one of Japan’s most iconic arcade games. Recently in Nagoya, two kids appear to have stuffed…
A 25-year-old nursing care worker has been arrested after allegedly emailing Square Enix, threatening to kill staff.
Back in 2005, Tomoyuki Inui was the best Dead or Alive Ultimate player in the world. Now 33 years 0ld, he was…
Swatter Tyler Barriss has received a 20-year prison sentence, according to Associated Press. A longtime swatter, Barriss pled guilty in November to crimes that ultimately led to the fatal shooting of a man over a Call of Duty dispute. Prior to that, Barriss had called in phony bomb threats to the FBI, the FCC,… Read more