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  • Timely Nintendo

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    Time went a bit nuts this week with great Nintendo coverage, starting with an interview with Nintendo President Tatsumi Kishima, an interview with Nintendo Director Shinya Takahashi (with lots of fun Wave Race trivia, a game I constantly wish would get updated), and this piece about the Switch. And for a bit of fun, there’s…

  • Fuudo on Toco Toco TV

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    The latest episode of Toco Toco TV covers pro gamer Fuudo, and for me it’s an especially nostalgic episode as most of it is set in Ikebukuro — where I lived for around 13 years — and shows off the arcades I spent a lot of time in while working on the Arcade Mania book.

  • Good Nintentions: 1985

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    I’ve recently become excessively obsessed with Jeremy Parish’s fantastic YouTube Channel (yes, I’m ridiculously late to the party on this), and among everything I’ve been watching, I’ve been quite enjoying watching his “Good Nintentions: 1985” series (available in this handy playlist), which acts as a perfect accompaniment to my current 1985 movie marathoning (22 movies so far).…

  • For Honor in Akihabara

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    It was pretty exciting to see the photo you see here, taken as a giant banner for the game I worked on for most of 2016 was being put up in Akihabara. We all know that western releases don’t get that much attention in Japan, and so it’s pretty great to see For Honor get…

  • Replaying Japan 2017: 5th International Japan Game Studies Conference

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    I should have shared this much soon, as the deadline for submitting abstracts is just around the corner on February 1, but it’s not too late. Replaying Japan 2017: 5th International Japan Game Studies Conference looks like quite the intriguing gathering, taking place August 21-23 at the Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester. There were certainly some…

  • Kojima Productions, in Shinagawa

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    Kojima Productions now has its very own slick home in the Shinagawa part of Tokyo, and it recently shared a gallery of photos that show off the new digs (which I came across through this Kotaku post). IGN has posted a 5-minute video featuring interviews with Kojima and key staff talking about the studio, and how it all…

  • Dekki

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    I’ve known Mike Sheetal for most of my life in Tokyo. One of the co-founders of the design/advertising agency UltraSuperNew, he switched gears a bit last year by founding a new game-oriented creative agency called Playbrain (bringing him back to his game dev roots). This week saw the launch of a new project by that agency, a…

  • Friend & Foe’s Excellent PSX Adventure

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    Tokyo-based (well, mostly) Friend & Foe‘s Vane is a game I’m incredibly looking forward to playing when it comes out. They’ve just shared an interesting blog post on the experience they had showing the game at PSX, and how despite the hurdles, taking part in a show like that can be well worth it for devs.

  • Learning the Pokemon Card Game by Song

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    Well this is definitely a fun way to learn a card game. Here’s a slick video made to teach players the basics of the Pokemon card game, with instructions given through the lyrics of the song that accompanies the video.

  • DQ2, GIF Edition

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    I really love this animated GIF, in part because I happen to be playing Dragon Quest II right now (although at a much slower pace than my recent Dragon Quest run).