New images of Nintendo’s anticipated Super Nintendo World theme park are circulating online, showing off a colourful island of pipes and plastic shrubs for guests to navigate through. The park features (tempting) platforms seen in many 3D Mario games while koopa shells are scattered across the park. The kingdom’s shrubs are also complimented with fake […]

BitSummit: 7 Spirits brought a stunning array of indie games to Kyoto, Japan, showcasing experiences where players could devastate whole cities with giant robots, solve puzzles in lethal escape rooms while lashed to a wheelchair or help dogs hurl their owners through buildings. It was a celebration of the variety of humour, heart, and exciting […]

A synopsis has been released for cult film director Takashi Miike’s upcoming ‘First Love’, which will be releasing at the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight.

Jump Force is, in all likelihood, the most fanservice oriented fighting game ever made. Featuring characters from One Piece, Naruto, Bleach, Dragonball and many other franchises, the game is being developed as Weekly Shonen Jump is celebrating its 50th anniversary. Having played several matches against A.I. opponents at Tokyo Game Show 2018, I’m left wondering […]

A Pokémon themed festival is coming to Japan in August, more specifically, a Slowpoke themed festival that features the adorably slow pink monster as the main highlight.

For those interested in the world of game sale numbers (at least in Japan), the latest Media Create Sales have just come out for October, specifically October 23 to October 29, 2017. Unsurprisingly, the just-released Super Mario Odyssey title for the Nintendo Switch has taken the number one spot, selling an impressive 462,038 units during […]

The latest Media Create sales figures were released today, covering between April 10th and April 16, 2017.

In Japan, Your Name (also known as Kimi no Na wa) has just made national history. The film has grossed over 20 billion yen, making it the second best-selling Japanese film in the country’s history, beating out Howl’s Moving Castle and Princess Mononoke.

Makoto Shinkai’s 2016 coming-of-age anime film Your Name has been one of the greatest box office releases in Japan during 2016. But reports suggest that the anime feature is surpassing one of Hayao Miyazaki’s classics. As of Nov. 28, 2016, Your Name has landed 19.4 billion yen in the Japanese box office, surpassing Princess Mononoke‘s 19.3 […]

Ringu is one of Japan’s most well-known media exports, and for good reason—it’s a solid franchise.