After six Milla Jovovich films, a 2021 reboot, a Netflix series and all those CG movies, there seems, amazingly, to still be an appetite for Resident Evil stuff. Enough, at least, for four studios, including Netflix and Warner Bros., to be bidding on a new …Read more »
Costco is selling Pokémon 151 Blooming Waters Premium Collection packs, but one store got more than it bargained for when people became violent trying to get the cards. You can find all the original 151 Pokémon in the pack, and there might be some special …Read more »
Game over. The Square Enix Cafe in Akihabara, Tokyo is set to close for good on March 31 after eight years in operation. The cafe was home to all things Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest and more in the heart of Tokyo’s otaku mecca since it …Read more »
Last year, Otaku USA reported on a member of second biggest yakuza group getting busted for stealing Pokémon cards. But it turns out more members of the yakuza, also known as the Japanese mafia, are apparently getting more and more interested in using Pokémon cards …Read more »
The Exit 8, the creepy indie Japanese horror game that made waves this year, is getting a live-action film adaptation. The game, which came out on Windows last year and various consoles this year, is a first-person game in which you must escape from a …Read more »
SHIFT UP’s Goddess of Victory: Nikke game recently shared the full version of an animated short for the “Old Tales” event, which features animation from Sword Art Online and Solo Leveling studio A-1 Pictures. Clocking in at over three minutes long, the short features some …Read more »
The Golden Joystick Awards, which has been around for more than forty years, has revealed its 2024 winners! Let’s take a look at which otaku titles received awards. To surely no one’s surprise, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth nabbed some of the awards. For starters, it …Read more »
Millions of people have played Pokémon GO since its launch in 2016, and millions have unknowingly helped train AI by doing so. Niantic explained on its site, “When you look at a familiar type of structure – whether it’s a church, a statue, or a …Read more »
The nominees for the Game Awards 2024 have been announced! A number of the titles in the running are Japanese-made games, and that includes multiple games for the biggest category, Game of the Year. Among those vying for Game of the Year are Final Fantasy …Read more »
Nintendo held a special video presentation to shed some more light on plans for the Donkey Kong Country addition to the Super Nintendo World theme park. According to the announcement, the new area will make its long-awaited debut in Universal Studios Japan on December 11, …Read more »
Is there any franchise in Japan that hasn’t been adapted for the stage? The latest piece of pop culture to get the stage play treatment is none other than Trials of Mana, the 1995 Super Nintendo RPG also known as Seiken Densetsu 3. Seiken Densetsu …Read more »
Here’s a nice piece of Halloween news: Paul W.S. Anderson, the director behind films like Event Horizon, Mortal Kombat and the Resident Evil series, is set to bring the arcade horror shooter The House of the Dead to the big screen. Production is expected to …Read more »
Not content with letting services like Spotify and YouTube grab all the video game music love, Nintendo saw fit to release its own app called Nintendo Music. True to the name, Nintendo Music is a dedicated app for playing music from Nintendo games from the …Read more »
Koei Tecmo is getting ready to release the Fairy Tail 2 game this December, but we don’t have to wait to see how it opens. You can see how developer Gust’s sequel kicks off in the new opening movie video below. Fairy Tail 2 Opening …Read more »
The original Steins;Gate visual novel game, which came out in 2009 and inspired the anime series of the same name, is getting a reboot. The new game, which is titled, appropriately, Steins;Gate Re:Boot, will be produced by Mages, the developer formerly known as 5pb. The Steins;Gate …Read more »
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