Pokémon cards can go for a lot of money, and unfortunately as a result there is a problem with people stealing them, including from stores. A 25-year-old man in Tokyo just got arrested for allegedly swiping Pokémon cards worth 2.2 million yen (approximately $15,738) from …Read more »
Video game director and programmer Yuji Naka of Sonic the Hedgehog is in hot water over accusations of insider trading. Cornell Law School explains: “Insider trading is the trading of a company’s securities by individuals with access to confidential or material non-public information about the …Read more »
Online RPG Final Fantasy XIV is celebrating its 10th anniversary with some real-life events in Japan that sound, well, pretty awesome. The events will feature both fireworks and music from the game. Or, as the official site explains it: FINAL FANTASY XIV 10th ANNIVERSARY FIREWORKS …Read more »
Aksys Games has been preparing for the launch of otome adventure Winter’s Wish: Spirits of Edo, and now the time has finally arrived. You can explore the new game’s many secrets right now on Nintendo Switch, so order your copy and start forging your own …Read more »
If the pre-hype wasn’t enough of an indication already, all the chatter during and after launch likely clued you into the fact that The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom was going to be a pretty huge deal. You’d be totally right to assume …Read more »
An intense social thriller is on the way to consoles and PC in the form of Inescapable: No Rules, No Rescue, the latest from developer Dreamloop Games and publisher Aksys Games. Ahead of launch, a new trailer has arrived to offer a glimpse into the …Read more »
Final Fantasy XVI will be released on June 22 for PlayStation 5, but that won’t be the case in Saudi Arabia. The General Commission for Audiovisual Media for the country tweeted that the game has not been approved for release and complained that Square Enix, …Read more »
The Naruto x Boruto Ultimate Ninja Storm Connections game is coming out this year, and ahead of this an English subtitled trailer has dropped. The trailer is a little over two and a half minutes long, and the top-rated characters according to the “NARUTOP99” poll …Read more »
Some Pokémon cards are worth a lot of money, and that has led to scalpers. New Pokémon expansion cards typically come out on Fridays in Japan, and there’s an issue of adults buying up all the new cards before kids — the actual main audience …Read more »
Mystery, monsters, and maybe even a little romance are all afoot in Winter's Wish: Spirits of Edo, a new otome game that's making its way to Nintendo Switch on May 18. You can order your copy of this powerful period piece today via Aksys Games, …Read more »
The Idolland PriPara mobile app is next up for the PriPara series, but it’s still getting hit with delays. The new game was originally planned for a spring 2021 launch before being pushed back to summer 2021. After that it was delayed to spring 2022, …Read more »
It’s a match made in heaven — er, Yokohama, anyway. For a three-game series starting June 30, the Yokohama DeNA Baystars baseball team will leave their usual helmets on the bench and and instead don official Pikachu helmets. It’s part of an event dubbed “Pokemon …Read more »
Kantai Collection, also known as KanColle, the franchise where World War II ships take the form of cute anime girls, launched on April 23, 2013 — meaning it’s now officially 10 years old. Starting off as a free-to-play online game, it’s been through many incarnations …Read more »
Jack Jeanne is a unique theatrical visual novel that's on the way to Nintendo Switch this summer, and one of the key minds behind it is none other than Tokyo Ghoul creator Sui Ishida. We'll all be able to check out the results for ourselves …Read more »
Nintendo came through with the third official trailer for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, which looks to be the final big preview ahead of the game’s May 12 launch on Nintendo Switch. Check out the dramatic, cinematic look at the Breath of …Read more »
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