The Game Developers Conference is happening right now in San Francisco, and with it comes new announcements and details of upcoming games. Today at the conference, Aksys Games...Read More
Learning Through Battle When most people sit down and load up a game, they’re doing so as a form of entertainment. It’s a way to unwind after a...Read More
As the fifth anniversary of the Western release of The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky approaches, XSeed shared a bit of information concerning upcoming English releases in...Read More
While the days of mainline Tales games staying Japan-exclusive seem to be over, the same can not be said about the various side games. Doubly so for the...Read More
NIS America is currently holding a press event in San Francisco, but it looks like an announcement appeared on the internet a bit early. A localization announcement trailer for...Read More
The Name’s The Game The names of most entertainment genres are relatively generic…as they should be, since they’re meant to be general classifications of more specific works. Looking...Read More
Schadenfreude B Movies: one of the classic “genres” of cinema, especially popular between the 1950s and 1970s. These films were low-budget and typically weren’t meant to present anything artistic....Read More
The year 2015 is drawing to a close, and it’s been (at least for me) a pretty good one! Numerous surprising announcements for upcoming games (Final Fantasy VII...Read More
To Tell a New Tale Visual novels have seen a relatively surprising surge in popularity here in the West over the past couple of years. A branch of...Read More
If It Ain’t Broke… Readers here may have guessed, either through the number of times I’ve written about rhythm games or through my current Twitter handle, that I...Read More
Not How We Planned It Taking an idea from conception to finished product is often a long and complex process. One in which the final outcome may not...Read More
A Swan Song Well, the game that we are here for today is Stella Glow, the newest release from the company Imageepoch. I don’t usually start review intros right...Read More
Find Fun in Fear It’s probably the right time of year to talk about horror games. After all, we’re publishing this review on the “most terrifying” day of...Read More
Head To Head If I may start off with the most obvious statement ever, people play video games for many different reasons. Some are looking to immerse themselves...Read More
New Yet Strangely Familiar Spinoffs are an interesting beast. You have a franchise that’s a hit with the public, and they keep asking for more. Maybe, though, you’re...Read More
The Pokemon Company, an offshoot of Nintendo focused on the Pokemon franchise, hosted a press conference today to announce new games and a new direction in business strategy....Read More
Digital Voice of a Generation I’ve mentioned Vocaloid a few times in a couple of past articles. The synthetic singers that are massively popular in Japan and starting...Read More
[Note: Due to the fanservice-heavy nature of this game, some of the images included in this article may be considered NSFW.] Inviting to the Eye Fanservice. A term...Read More
Battle On! Gaming is quite a divisive hobby. For just about any aspect of it, you can find two groups of people that have fiercely different opinions. Call...Read More