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Some of your favorite Japanese games crib from Western myth. Sephiroth, your favorite bad guy, takes his name from Kabbalah. The Shin Megami Tensei games make a living out of snatching up any mythological figures they can get their hands on, mostly because the names …Read more »
Leave it to Metal Gear series mastermind Hideo Kojima to get super excited about the HD upgrade to Metal Gear Solid 3 , enough so that he uploaded a photo he snapped for all to covet. The image in question comes from testing out the …Read more »
While not related to any existing anime/manga property, G-Rev’s new game Strania - The Stella Machine may feel strangely familiar to otaku. As the company’s previous effort Senkou no Ronde ( Wartech ) was full of winks to Keiko Takemiya’s sci-fi shoujo classic To Terra …Read more »
Take note, fans of Demon's Souls , for there's a new deadly horror on the horizon. Dark Souls , the spiritual successor to From Software's 2009 death-bringer, has been tagged with an October 2011 release date. What, you didn't get brutally slaughtered enough in the …Read more »
Yes, believe it or not, Namco Bandai have another Dragon Ball -related fighting game on the way. Playful sarcasm aside, Japanese blog Tale Tale Source cites the upcoming issue of Weekly Shonen Jump as the source of the announcement, and the game is listed as …Read more »
The Indie section of the Xbox Live games marketplace can be a confusing beast, like a hydra with sub-bargain-bin TV games in place of its hulking heads. For the most part it's a complete crapshoot of mediocre to unplayable… things... that aren't even worth wasting …Read more »
In the latest issue of Otaku USA , Dave Riley reviewed a "modest" action game known as Vanquish . I speak of it with little expectation of mass familiarity because of one simple fact: no one seems to be buying it. Now, there aren't many …Read more »
It's the new year, which means the Internet is abuzz with lists of every conceivable kind. From exhaustive movie countdowns to "Top 15 soft drinks experiences 2010," if you want a list, I'm sure you can find it. Even we cannot resist such wild temptations, …Read more »
Times sure have changed. Thanks to Dragon Ball Z 's unrelenting popularity, we now get pretty much every single DBZ -related game in North America rather than none. The upside to this is that the games are much better nowadays than they were …Read more »
All would-be No More Heroes fans that find themselves without Wiis still can breathe a sigh of relief, as the port of Grasshopper Manufacture's game will make its way to Playstation 3 in North America. Konami picked up the European publishing rights to No More …Read more »
Atlus has won over a lot of fans in the last few years with the bold direction of their Persona series, and for good reason. They've done an admirable job in diverging from the typical RPG style, and it looks like they're continuing to do …Read more »
The Mad Gamer (R) and co. play some "hot licks" while vintage boom boxes graze on the sound waves. Document two: “The Poison Spider Mansion Ambush” I’m thanking my lucky stars. I’m praying to a pantheon of dark gods that don’t even exist and hopefully …Read more »
This has been a strange week or so for announcements of US properties making the animated leap. It all started with the announcement that Bioware and Funimation would be teaming up to produce an anime adaptation of the former's hit RPG, Dragon Age , which …Read more »
The name Nintendo has been associated with the lighter side of gaming for as long as most people can remember, and that's not gonna change any time soon. Many will recall the disappointment of owning a "superior" version of Mortal Kombat on Super Nintendo, only …Read more »
Cave has always been on top of the heap of shooter developers in Japan, and their fervent fan following illustrates that enthusiastically. Unfortunately, getting the latest manic 2D vertical shooter can be a pain at times for us overseas gamers, especially if there aren't enough …Read more »
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