This past weekend, an anime tourism event was held in otaku mecca Akihabara, and some special guests were on hand to join in the fun. One of those guests was Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike, who is a self-professed fan of anime and cosplay. She was …Read more »
Okay, so Super Mario Run didn’t sell quite as well as expected, but Nintendo’s first foray into smartphone gaming did net them several million dollars. The company is continuing its mobile rollout with Fire Emblem Heroes , a new mobile game based on the long-running …Read more »
Lady Layton is on the case. Game developer Level-5, the folks behind the popular Professor Layton puzzler series, are back with another addition to the franchise, but this time around, the character in charge is the professor’s daughter Katrielle Layton, who is, as the title …Read more »
Weta Workshop, the New Zealand-based effects studio behind the live-action Ghost in the Shell film’s practical effects are on-site at San Diego Comic-Con, and they have brought some Ghost -related goods along with them. WETA’s Comic-Con display appears to be giving con-goers a first look …Read more »
Final Fantasy Adventure , the Game Boy Final Fantasy sidequel that launched the Mana series, is getting a mobile remake, announced Square Enix Thursday. The remake will hit iOS, Android and PS Vita this winter. For those readers too young to have played Final Fantasy …Read more »
Released in 1993, Mamoru Oshii’s Patlabor 2 was a stunning work of hyperreal animation that touched on politics, war and technology and in many ways prefigured Oshii’s work on the legendary Ghost in the Shell . Now it appears Oshii is returning to the story …Read more »
Hideaki Anno, director of Neon Genesis Evangelion , announced Sunday at the Tokyo International Film Festival his company, Khara, would be teaming up with media company Dwango to launch a new site called Animator Expo. Animator Expo is a website devoted to showing animated shorts …Read more »
Puzzle & Dragons . You may have heard of it. Little game for your phone, combines the color match puzzling of Bejeweled with the monster collecting of Pokemon, reportedly the highest grossing app in the world on iOS and Android, making something like 3 million …Read more »
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