Japan has a wealth of region-locked games that have pushed boundaries, but many of these titles never made it to the West.

Taro Yamada, a member of the Japanese Diet's House of Councillors, wrote on X (via Automaton) that there have been numerous cases of Japanese developers of ...

This year was a fantastic year for gaming, and Japan had a lot to offer. So here are my some of personal favorites. Naturally, these lists are just based on my personal preferences of the games I ...

Adult game developers located in Japan are seemingly unable to collect any revenue for their work, with Japanese banks reportedly blocking the transfer of profits from Valve overseas. According to ...

many of which develop games for Japanese audiences first and everyone else second. While some gaming sensibilities are universal, regional preferences have led to some strange collector's editions ...

Fate/strange Fake is the most hotly anticipated ... many assumed that the Japanese premiere on New Year's Eve would be the official start of the TV anime. As late as December 27, 2024 ...

Japanese snowboarder Hiroto Ogiwara and Italian ... respectively, at the 2025 Winter X Games in Aspen, Colorado. Ogiwara, 19, achieved the feat first on Friday night, stunning the crowd at ...

The survey quizzes fans about some key aspects of Life is Strange: Double Exposure, even asking them whether they felt the game was worth purchasing. Future Life is Strange games may be influenced ...

And there are times when playing teenage adventure game Life is Strange — the game I enjoyed the most this year, the one I couldn't stop thinking about after finishing each episode — is cringe ...

Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo ... Although, I am sure that game will be slotted in somewhere more definite once it is released.

Michael McWhertor is a journalist with more than 17 years of experience covering video games, technology, movies, TV, and entertainment. What began as a street-level beat-’em-up gangster drama ...