Phantom Brave: The Lost Hero, the long-awaited sequel to the Nippon Ichi tactical RPG from way back in 2004, is on the way. Today saw the release of an announcement trailer for the game, which gave us a look at the game’s story, its characters, …Read more »
Submissions are closed for the Pokémon Trading Card Game Illustration Contest 2024, and many people sent in their artwork for consideration. The coveted grand prize gets $5,000, plus their artwork will be made into an actual Pokémon card. On June 14 the top 300 artworks …Read more »
Some people play games to escape or be the hero, others like a more silly approach. We can’t help but notice a rise this year in the popularity of indie games with a cute, yet chaotic twist. Playing cute animals in games isn’t a new …Read more »
Dungeons & Dragons has become more popular than ever over the last few years, with many settings and systems rushing to be 5e-compatible. So, why not Pokémon? We’ve heard tell of many gaming groups trying to mash the collectible cryptids into the Wizards of the Coast …Read more »
Madoka Magica‘s Magia Record mobile game is about to end service this July, but the dark magical girl dream lives on in a new game. Madoka Magica: Magia Exedra is set to launch sometime this year, and Aniplex recently shared an English teaser to get …Read more »
Ever since The Legend of Zelda launched on Famicom Disk System in 1986, its title character has been relegated to a secondary role. That is, unless we count 1993 CD-i game Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon. Maybe that’s best left undiscussed. Anyway, that’s all about …Read more »
LEGO comes out with all sorts of sets related to pop culture, and it’s teamed up with Nintendo to create the Great Deku Tree 2-in-1 set, based on the mega successful Legend of Zelda series! The set will be released on September 1, and it …Read more »
If you happen to still be on the Magia Record global server, you might want to hustle and get those stories finished and those Magical Girls leveled. This July, the final chapter of the Madoka Magica spinoff will be released, and the game will move into an …Read more »
From developers Toydium and Million Edge, Gift is the latest award-winning indie to come out of Akihabara, Tokyo. On board a luxury cruise, you must solve the everchanging environmental puzzles to survive the fast-approaching water. Playing an elderly man, who finds himself on a giant …Read more »
38 years ago, on May 27, 1986, the first Dragon Quest game was released, kicking off the RPG franchise that’s still going today. To celebrate, the date has been declared “Dragon Quest Day” in Japan. Debuting over a year before the first Final Fantasy game, …Read more »
Voice actor Billy Kametz passed away in 2022 — when he was only 35 — after battling Stage IV colon cancer. His friends have begun a yearly Billy Kametz Memorial Fundraiser, where people around the world play games Kametz loved and raise money for the …Read more »
2002 saw the release of “Simple and Clean,” the English theme song for Kingdom Hearts. Now, in 2024, it’s been re-recorded by singer/songwriter and producer Hikaru Utada. It was co-produced by A.G. Cook. The song is launching on the same day that Square Enix announced …Read more »
The mobile suits of the Gundam franchise have made cameos in everything from Ready Player One to True Detective. Now Gundam is coming to the latest season of popular FPS Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III. The addition of Gundam to the game was announced …Read more »
If you’re a fan of The Quintessential Quintuplets franchise, then there’s more stuff coming your way soon! Its first two visual novels — The Quintessential Quintuplets: Memories of a Quintessential Summer (originally titled Gotōbun no Hanayome ~Natsu no Omoide mo Gotōbun~) and The Quintessential Quintuplets: …Read more »
Risk Monster, a credit management company located in Tokyo, does a yearly survey titled Organizations Where I Want my Children/Grandchildren to Work. A total of 800 people were surveyed, evenly split with 200 having a daughter, 200 having a son, 200 having a granddaughter, and …Read more »
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