As promised, a video presentation arrived to reveal more details about the Pokémon Diamond and Pokémon Pearl remakes, appropriately known as Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Pokémon Shining Pearl. The Pokémon Presents video showed new trailers for those, as well as the upcoming Pokémon Legends: Arceus …Read more »
Nintendo has some more news about upcoming Pokémon games on the way, including the new Pokémon Gen 4 remakes. Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl were previously announced alongside the brand new Pokémon Legends Arceus, and all three will be the subject of an upcoming …Read more »
Last year Nintendo’s profits boomed during the COVID quarantine. This year, as quarantines are being lifted in many places, Nintendo has likewise seen a drop in sales. “In regard to business risk, the extended impact of both COVID-19 and the global semiconductor shortage creates a …Read more »
The Sega Ikebukuro GiGO arcade in Tokyo debuted on July 21, 1993, and it’s shuttering in September, with the 20th as its final day. In addition to offering video games, Sega Ikebukuro GiGO has offered many crane games and sticker picture booths, as well as …Read more »
VTubers have shown that they can do everything from sing and dance to visit actual conventions, so why not have a VTuber horror game? At least that’s the premise behind the “hololiveERROR” horror game project from the VTubers hololive. A three and a half minute …Read more »
Is France’s President Emmanuel Macron an otaku? The world leader recently flew into Japan for the Olympics and to talk to the prime minister, but his trip has also included some real otakudom. In addition to getting an original illustration of One Piece from creator …Read more »
Things are really different at this year’s Olympics because of COVID, but it appears the Tokyo Olympics might have been even more different if the pandemic hadn’t begun. And by that I mean different in a good way and very exciting for otaku. Anime News …Read more »
Netflix, which made a live-action Death Note and is working on live-action adaptations of Cowboy Bebop and One Piece, has apparently set its sights on making a live-action Pokémon as well. Variety reports that sources have told them that Joe Henderson of Lucifer will be …Read more »
Square Enix Manga and Books just announced multiple licenses, including books involving the Final Fantasy franchise and new manga. We’re excited to announce that the Encyclopaedia Eorzea ~The World of FINAL FANTASY XIV~ will be back in a new reprint edition! Vol. 1 of these …Read more »
There are 189 Pokémon manhole covers (referred to as Pokefuta) to be found around Japan. These manhole covers act as a form of tourism, and it seems as if Hokkaido can’t get enough of them. Earlier this month Hokkaido added seven more Pokémon manhole covers, …Read more »
Another new trailer is here for the upcoming My Next Life as a Villainess game, which is on the way to Nintendo Switch in Japan on December 23. See more of what happens when Catarina encounters a handsome pirate captain named Silva and sets off …Read more »
The Tokyo Olympics have officially started, and if you caught the opening ceremony, you might have thought the music sounded familiar. During the Parade of Nations a medley of music from Japanese video games was played. Here’s what you heard: “ Overture: Loto’s Theme” …Read more »
A retro game collector in Japan known as @corner_mask on Twitter showed off his collection of 1,053 Nintendo Famicom cartridges. That’s every game commercially released for the Nintendo Famicom, the console that made its way to the west as the Nintendo Entertainment System! He shared …Read more »
Crane games and other prize-fetching arcade cabinets are supposed to be fair, or at least they’re supposed to appear to be fair, even if you can never quite grab exactly what you want. It seems as if one of SEGA’s games was neither, because it …Read more »
An “only ‘90s kids will remember”-style debate is now raging on 2chan. The topic? Whether ‘90s games have good graphics. It all started with a post that said: “the graphics in late ‘90s games are so bad … how was anyone satisfied with this?” Responses …Read more »
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