Nintendo is going big for the 35th anniversary of Super Mario Bros., and that includes their efforts for the Super Mario Play! Tokyo! celebration. According to SoraNews24, Shinjuku Station and Tokyo Station are getting all into the Mario love. If you look up at the …Read more »
Last week, Sega announced plans to produce a live-action Yakuza film in conjunction with 1212 Entertainment and Wild Sheep Content. While a Hollywood take on one of the company’s most successful series seems like a no-brainer, not everyone was convinced about the prospect. It didn’t …Read more »
Pokémon news was expected today, but what fans weren’t ready for was an exciting, and even touching Pokémon music video. Right after more information was revealed about plans for the second Sword and Shield DLC, the electrifying video was showcased, featuring the music of BUMP …Read more »
Writer Satoru Yamaguchi and illustrator Nami Hidaka’s My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom novels—as well as the Villainess anime adaptation—are steeped in the world of otome games. Now, in a stunning bit of turnabout, those very novels and anime are …Read more »
Variety has announced that Sega is working in conjunction with 1212 Entertainment and Wild Sheep Content to create a live action movie adaptation of their Yakuza game series. Yakuza is the second most successful video game Sega has ever made, beaten only by Sonic the …Read more »
The company Mantaro Ningyo has been making kimekomi ningyo (a type of fancy Japanese doll made from wood and fabric) for more than a century. As Japanese site grape noted, these dolls can be used to portray important figures from Japan’s history, or the dolls …Read more »
Video game company Capcom, creator of the Street Fighter franchise, has an agreement with Tezuka Productions for Capcom vs. Osamu Tezuka Characters. But instead of fighting it out digitally, as the name implies, they’re working with each other for a special event at the Osamu …Read more »
It had a good run, but it’s finally time to call it a day for the Nintendo 3DS. According to a report on The Verge, the Japanese Nintendo website announced the discontinuation of the beloved portable, putting a cap on a nine-year run and effectively …Read more »
The Super Mario Bros. franchise has just turned 35, and Nintendo shows no signs of slowing down their work with Mario and Luigi. After a few years of teasing about a Mario Bros. animated film, it just announced that the movie is scheduled to …Read more »
There are boys’ love anime, manga, light novels, and now there’s a special BL card game that takes you through your own “choose your own adventure” storyline in a school setting. According to SoraNews24, it’s called “Minna de Making! BL,” which translates as “Making a …Read more »
When a series of any kind runs for literal decades, the opportunities for less-than-good entries become more and more frequent — and this is just as true in The Legend of Zelda as anywhere else. Turning out games like Breath of the Wild and Twilight Princess …Read more »
If you were around when Crash Bandicoot first became a thing in the mid-90s, you no doubt remember the live-action ads. Now they’re back to terrorize Japan and the rest of the world… but specifically Japan in this case! Crash’s mission this time around is …Read more »
Anime and gaming go hand in hand these days. Whether it’s an anime being adapted into a game of vice-versa, it seems you can’t have one without the other. Today, though, we’re looking for shows that will resonate with gamers in one way or another …Read more »
Mobile games come and go, and the latest to do the latter is Case Closed Runner: Race to the Truth. Also known in Japan and elsewhere as Detective Conan Runner, the game launched in Japan in April of 2019, followed by North America a couple …Read more »
Microsoft finally revealed the prices of its two next-gen consoles—Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S—this week, putting even more pressure on Sony’s PlayStation 5 to bellow out its own asking price. While we may not know the answer yet, Truly Exquisite has revealed a …Read more »
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