Category: Games

  • Arcade Mania Flickr Group

    We’ve created an Arcade Mania Flickr group to collect shots of Japan’s game centers — join and add yours! The photo above is by Yuki.

  • Arcade Mania

    So there you have it, the cover to Arcade Mania: The Turbo-Charged World of Japan’s Game Centers. That is indeed the book I’ve been working on since last fall, and it’s finally time to start revealing details. First of all, you’ll notice that Brian Ashcraft — the man without whom there’s no way in hell…

  • Amusement

    If anyone sees a copy of Amusement, a new French gaming magazine, in Tokyo at a reasonable price, please-please let me know. I really want to pick this up — comes off as Monocle doing games — but buying the issue from their site is close to $40 (to Japan).

  • Sake from Microsoft

    I attended Microsoft’s press event in Shibuya for their upcoming Xbox 360 RPG lineup yesterday, and as we left we were given this bottle of sake. I have to say this is definitely the best piece of swag I’ve ever gotten at an event. Love that play on words too — “Xbox 360 no RPG…

  • PingMag: Illustrator Yoshitaka Amano

    PingMag interviews illustrator Yoshitaka Amano, a name fans of anime and gaming should be be well familiar with.

  • PingMag: Tokyo’s Retrogaming Bars

    PingMag takes us on a tour of Shinjuku’s retrogaming themed bars (8-bit Cafe and 16 Shots).

  • Wired’s Game|Life Contributor

    I’m very happy to announce that as of this week I’ve started contributing to Wired‘s Game|Life blog. I’ll be doing a few posts a day for them, mostly covering game-related news coming from Tokyo/Japan. As I tend to do with all of the things I write, I’ll start posting round-ups at the end of the…

  • Lining Up for Bape in 2008

    Regular readers will know that I often make sly comments about Bape, and the fact that their Tokyo stores are usually empty (at least when I go). In the comment thread to this post about the Bape Nintendo DS collaboration, a reader links to this video of people waiting in line on release day. I’m…

  • Bape Nintendo DS Sells Big

    Remember that Bape-branded Nintendo DS that was announced a few weeks back? Seems like the brand finally has something “hot” (I refer here to the fact that their Tokyo stores are always empty — I do realize that the brand is quite popular outside of Japan these days). As Kotaku reports: Label conscious Nintendo fans…

  • Space Invaders Invade Yahoo! Japan

    Literally (see it yourself). It’s one of the many promotions currently underway to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the company. Via Imprint Talk.