We're in the eye of the storm as far as cosplay goes for 2011. We've just come off a hectic past few weeks with Games…
It's dubbed the "3DS Kakuchou Slide Pad" or "3DS Expansion Slide Pad". It's real. And it's truly an ugly product—the…
Wait a second. That crazy insane rumor that the struggling Nintendo 3DS would be getting a second analog slider…
It's the fourth and final day of Dragon Con 2011, but I'm not there. The final day of a convention like this is a…
Forget all that talk that Microsoft is leaving Japan! Because on September 28, Xbox Japan is launching a new Xbox…

Satoshi Inoue is a comedian. That's what has made him famous. But recently, he's becoming better known for something…
The world really doesn't. But Capcom didn't ask the world. It looked at the Japanese sales for its wildly popular Mon…
Q Entertainment makes very pretty games like Lumines and Child of Eden. Games that are nothing at all like Monster…
Monster Hunter isn't very cute. It also isn't very popular in the West, but in Japan, it's huge.

If you've ever done an interview with Patapon designer Hiroyuki Kotani, you've heard him sing "Pon Pon Pata Pon" as…
In Japan, Pokémon has its own bread, so why the heck doesn't Monster Hunter?
They're big! Yes, yes —we know Universal Studios and Capcom are teaming up to recreate Monster Hunter this August in…
This August, Monster Hunter Portable 3rd is invading Universal Studios Japan. Details are scant, but the USJ event…

It has come to my attention that we might, within a few short years, find ourselves living on a planet devoid of…
Capcom boss Kenzo Tsujimoto makes wine. How did he learn about it? By buying 10,000 bottles of it. "I bought the…

The race to bag the biggest game of all gets small in Japan this June, when Capcom launches Monster Hunter Dynamic…
Well, if it isn't Kirin from Monster Hunter. Who says the series isn't popular in the West. It's popular enough for…
Across northeastern Japan, men, women and children that were displaced by the Tohoku Earthquake are taking shelter…

One of the game's revealed in the wake of Japan's quake, Monster Hunter spin-off Mon Hun Nikki: Poka-Poka Airu…
With all the games being delayed (or worse, canceled) and game developers not coming into their offices, it would…