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Kabuku, Microsoft Japan, and the ICT Dream School Council of Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications have teamed up to bring innovatio...

• 10 years ago

DMM Games has signed an agreement with China’s leading game company, Youzu Interactive Co. to operate the company's most popular games, **Touken Ranbu...

• 10 years ago

April 27th, 1992 marks a special day for gamers: the Japanese release of Kirby’s Dream Land on the Game Boy and the first appearance of that squishy pink character fans all over the world have come to know and love!

• 10 years ago

apanese netizens were polled on which of the Neko Atsume Regular and Rare Cats are their favorites and - drumroll - the results are as follows!

• 10 years ago

Frontwing and Akabei Soft2 have announced that a localization project for the game *Wheel Country, Sunflower Girl -Sharin no Kuni-* will begin on Kick...

• 10 years ago

A demo event was held on April 3 recreating the world of the visual novel *Muv-Luv*.

• 10 years ago

At the recently held Uncovered: Final Fantasy XV event, details for the latest game in the Final Fantasy series were announced, much to the joy of fans worldwide. The much anticipated title will be released on September 30, 2016 *worldwide* and will feature theme song "Stand By Me" by English indie rock band Florence + the Machine.

• 10 years ago

A *Monster Hunter Cross* collaboration room is open for a limited time at Sotetsu Fresa Inn Tokyo-Kyobashi from Saturday, March 12 to Thursday, June 30.

• 10 years ago

March 14 is White Day in Japan - it is customary for guys to gift chocolates to girls from whom they had received chocolates on Valentine's Day a month before. At Splatoon's Squid Research Lab, the male researchers got together to make some squid cookies, but they didn't turn out quite as expected...

• 10 years ago

The Steam game by Playism, Gocco of War, is currently on sale exclusively through Tokyo Otaku Mode!Gocco of War is set in “Gocco Studio Japan” - a...

• 10 years ago

From the first black-and-white Game Boy to Nintendo 3D, Japanese artist memi's animation showed generations of Pokemon evolving with technology.

• 10 years ago

Video games have come a long way since the days when you were forced to play as one specific main character. If you were a girl who didn’t want to play as a boy character, or even if you were a boy who was tired of playing as a burly man, then your gaming options were limited.

• 10 years ago

With names that everyone around the globe has heard of, Japan has made some of the best-known toys in history! From Pokémon and Tamagotchi to classic Transformers, just who will win that ultimate prize of Japan’s greatest toy? Find out in our Top 5 list of Japan's best toys of all time!

• 10 years ago

The smartphone game Neko Atsume has taken over the cat-obsessed world by storm, and this time round you’ll get to *actually* collect cats in real life … with the help of these toys!

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A Japanese startup is working with Bandai Namco to rework the classic arcade game into an immersive virtual reality experience—using a touch-control V...

• 10 years ago

Want to try your hand at crafting Super Mario Maker screens, but don’t have a Wii U? Right this way!

• 10 years ago

Longtime fans of video game franchise The Idolmaster celebrate over 10 years of musical idol-rearing fun with comparison pictures of the series’ graphics over time.

• 10 years ago

The cat-collecting smartphone game Neko Atsume (English: Cat Collector) has taken the world by storm - even sparking another similar app for dog lover...

• 10 years ago

The “Naruto run” is quite the iconic running style, but this one’s a little different!

• 10 years ago

As opportunities for e-sports rise with even the Olympics in sight, what kind of role do these two have in the gaming market?

• 10 years ago