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 »
Whether it’s the manga, the anime, or the cards (or all of the above), Yu-Gi-Oh! has a major fanbase. In fact, its fanbase just helped it get not one, but two Guinness World Records! Guinness explained on its website: A total of 7,443 people competed …Read more »
KLab, which previously launched the very successful game Bleach: Brave Souls, got the green light from the Bleach Production Committee for a new video game in the franchise. Its title has not yet been revealed, but it will be based on the anime and it’s …Read more »
A Pokémon card collection belonging to someone in Nottinghamshire, England, has made news for how much the stash went for at the The Lichfield Auction Centre. According to the BBC, the auctioneer thought the cards were perhaps worth about £25,000, but they ended up selling …Read more »
Nintendo shared its Fiscal Year Ending March 2024 reports, highlighting successes of the past fiscal year and hinting at things to come. Chief among them was mention of the oft-reported Switch successor, which will officially be announced “within this fiscal year.” With that in mind, …Read more »
The Hollywood Sonic the Hedgehog movie franchise has been doing quite well for itself, and now we can say the same for the limited series Knuckles. Knuckles began streaming on April 26 on Paramount +, and it’s already broken records for the streaming service. For …Read more »
Aksys Games brought Tengoku Struggle -Strayside- to Nintendo Switch in the west on April 4, thrilling players with one of Otomate's most gripping stories yet. Among the key aspects that make it such an unforgettable experience are its characters, so let's take a look at …Read more »
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