Bandai Premium recently unleashed an intense, muscular figure of Pokémon 's Brock/Takeshi, mimicking how he appears in Pokémon Red and Blue on Game Boy. That ties in nicely to a tweet Pokémon character designer Ken Sugimori shot out this week, showcasing his sketches of the …Read more »
Comments from Square Enix's Tetsuya Nomura in interviews with Famitsu and Dengeki Online suggest that the PS4 remake of Final Fantasy VII announced earlier this week at E3 will go beyond a mere cosmetic update. “I can’t get go into details, but this is not …Read more »
Last week we posted about UK newspaper The Guardian having it on good authority that Team ICO's The Last Guardian would be making another appearance at E3… and they were right! Fumito Ueda's latest game is now coming to PlayStation 4, and while it's hard …Read more »
Featured Spotlight Atelier Escha & Logy: Alchemists of the Dusk Sky debuted as the 15th entry in developer Gust's long-running Atelier RPG series in 2013, making its way to PlayStation 3 in the west in 2014. It also made the leap to anime that year, …Read more »
It's been a long time coming, but Square Enix is finally remaking fan-favorite PSOne RPG Final Fantasy VII . The remake was revealed during Sony's E3 2015 press conference tonight, and it's "coming first" to PlayStation 4. Here's the reveal trailer:
There will be plenty of news over the next few days from the currently-running E3 about new, fancy-pants video games, but for this writer, the most exciting news might be about a video game from 1989. Mother , also known as Earthbound Zero , the …Read more »
It's hard to believe that Team Ico's Shadow of the Colossus is almost 10 years old now, but in 2006, it was one of the most critically acclaimed games of the year and remains one of the most fondly-remembered games of the entire PS2 era. …Read more »
This review first appeared in our August 2014 issue, and it's now available online as a bonus supplement to the Atelier Escha & Logy anime feature in our latest issue, available now . *** The Atelier series is one that simply doesn't receive enough recognition. …Read more »
Tokyo-based band BACK-ON has been making high-energy music for anime openings and themselves for a little over a decade now. After breaking onto the scene with “Chain,” the opening song for 2006’s Air Gear , they’ve since gone on to create openings and endings for …Read more »
Mega Man fans may get a bum deal from time to time, especially when it comes to new entries in the series, but with the series' 30th anniversary on the not-too-distant horizon, Capcom is building up some steam. Those who dig the 8-bit Mega Man …Read more »
Fate/Grand Order is an iOS/Android RPG that's set to launch in Japan this summer. Serving as a reboot of the Fate/Apocrypha project, Grand Order features Servants designed by a variety of artists, and the latest trailer previews Berserker. The Berserker of Fate/Grand Order is designed …Read more »
Are you tired of us posting news about cool otaku-related clothing with that annoying “but you have to live in Japan to buy this” caveat? Not this time, baby. This officially-licensed Legend of Zelda bathrobe is created by Merchoid , who are based in the …Read more »
Nintendo just hired Mario’s arch-nemesis as its vice president of sales. Oh, my bad, not that Bowser: it’s normal human being Doug Bowser, formerly of Electronic Arts, who’s being hired to oversee sales at Nintendo of America. Still, you can’t tell me the name had …Read more »
Daisuke Ashihara's World Trigger manga is getting its first game adaptation in the form of World Trigger: Borderless Mission on PS Vita. Now we have a release window thanks to the July issue of Shueisha's V Jump magazine, which has the game arriving in Japan …Read more »
This girl clearly needed help tying her shoes. Previously only available on Playstation systems, Akiba's Trip: Undead and Undressed caused some controversy last year with a transgender slur used in the English version's dialog. Oddly enough, no one seemed to take issue with the fact …Read more »
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