Fluency in Japanese certainly is not necessary to appreciate the goings-on at this year’s Tokyo Game Show.  Thanks to the internet, neither is actually being in Japan at any point in your life.  Dengeki’s website has several videos highlighting different video game publishers and their booths at TGS.
The videos are for the most part devoid [...]

 
I may not have been one of the lucky individuals who attended this year’s TGS, but thanks to the echo chamber that is the internet, I got all the info I wanted.  This year’s event was filled with hands-on previews, free merchandise, and some surprises as well.

Bandai-Namco’s booth featured a playable demo for their upcoming [...]

7th Dragon’s Japanese release is still a ways in the future, but that doesn’t stop Sega from putting some new info out there on the game.  I was surprised to learn that the game’s title isn’t just for sounding cool and being in English, as is sometimes the case with Japanese games.  There are indeed 7 [...]

Recently Sega and the creative forces behind Etrian Odyssey have announced a new Nintendo DS title scheduled to be released in Japan sometime next year. The game is called 7th Dragon, and features some of the damn cutest sprites I have seen in all my years of vidya gaming:

The game tales place in a [...]

So Furai No Shiren 3 has officially hit the shelves in Japan. Am I jealous? Yes. Do I want this Koppa wii-mote holder? Yes. Is life fair? In this blogger’s opinion almost certainly not.
If you have a Japanese Wii and want to try your hand at the game, you [...]