Love tabletop RPGs, but wish they had a little more mecha in them? The solution is on its way! Classic Japanese TRPG Wares Blade is coming soon from LionWing, and a crowdfunding campaign is now underway. With your support, the company can bring this vintage title …Read more »
Sony is upping the prices of PlayStation 5, seemingly in response to President Trump’s tariffs. The new prices began on August 21. Sony shared the news in a short blog post titled “PlayStation 5 price changes in the U.S.” and credited to Isabelle Tomatis, the …Read more »
34-year-old Mitch William Gross of Iowa was sentenced on August 24 to four months in federal prison. His crime? Wire fraud. More specifically, he used company money to buy more than $140,000 worth of Pokémon cards and other gaming items. Gross was working for Ruan …Read more »
Among all the excitement of the Pokémon Worlds event over the weekend, the folks behind the phenomenon revealed a new trailer for the upcoming Pokémon Legends: Z-A game. Following the success of Pokémon Legends: Arceus, this one is due out on Nintendo Switch and Nintendo …Read more »
A partial skull chanced upon in Australia in 2019 has been declared a newly discovered, extinct species of whale and given the name Janjucetus dullardi. The specimen will help scientists better understand whale evolution — and it’s getting compared to Pokémon. Senior curator of vertebrate …Read more »
Japanese medical apparel company Classico describes itself as “a brand of stylish lab coats that are designed to uplift the spirits of the people who wear them.” It’s also apparently meant to uplift the spirits of the patients around the medical staff, as Classico has …Read more »
Famitsu, one of Japan’s top gaming magazines, has compiled a big survey of Japan’s gamer population in 2024 and compared it to the same numbers from a decade ago (2015 was seriously 10 years ago?). The top-line number shows an increase in the number of …Read more »
The One Piece Lego sets have officially launched! This is something great for fans around the world, but probably no one is geeking out more than One Piece creator Eiichiro Oda. Netflix, home of the successful live-action One Piece adaptation, offered a video of Oda …Read more »
Anything related to Pokémon is sure to sell. McDonald’s is a popular chain in both America and Japan, and the Japanese franchise announced it would have a limited-time exclusive Pokémon Happy Meal. By limited time, I mean three days — August 9, August 10, and …Read more »
There’s been a major backlash in response to the removal of legal NSFW video games at Steam and itch.io, with the game sites saying it was due to pressure from payment processors. Mastercard has since responded to the accusations that it was part of the …Read more »
The popular game Fate/Grand Order first launched in July 2015, a decade ago. As a result there was an event called “Fate/Grand Order Fes. 2025 10th Anniversary,” and part of it included releasing a new video. This two-minute video was made at Andraft, with Ryu …Read more »
The International Game Developers Association (IGDA) describes itself as “the world’s largest nonprofit membership organization serving all individuals who create games” and it put out a statement in regards to the delisting of legal NSFW games at Steam and itch.io after pressure from payment processors. …Read more »
Many NSFW games have been erased from Steam and itch.io, due to the pressure of payment processors like Visa and Mastercard, who in turn seem to be responding to pressure from pro-censorship groups like Collective Shout. PC Gamer decided to interview some indie game developers …Read more »
This year’s upcoming combined issue 36/37 of Weekly Shonen Jump has a very special collab tied to it in the form of a Pokémon crossover of sorts. The Pokémon Shonen Jump collaboration inspired some of the magazine’s top creators to put together crossover art, including …Read more »
Game site itch.io recently “deindexed” its NSFW content, pointing to payment processors and pressure from the pro-censorship group Collective Shout for the action. On July 28, itch.io gave an update on what’s going on, including a non-exhaustive list of subjects now banned. Partly explaining the …Read more »
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