Invigorate your New Year with a look at some of the possibilities in 2022 that could rock our world in energy, finance, the pandemic, economics and...
Pikmin Bloom was released by Nintendo right around November 1. Our reporter reviews it here and lets you know what to expect - and how to...
With the compounding effect of COVID making the on-site show impossible again this year, E3 organizer the Entertainment Software Association had a lot to prove with...
IGN Japan’s chief editor Daniel Robson gives us a little peek behind the curtain that shrouds the dream job of many gamers: covering videogames, movies and...
~~ On January 23, many Japanese subculture fans were taken by surprise at the news that the Japanese government might regulate cosplay, the practice of dressing...
USJ's “Super Nintendo World” scheduled February 4 opening in Osaka is postponed - the attraction's 2nd delay due to worsening conditions caused by COVID-19.
Japanese games have a place in gamers’ hearts, both at home and abroad, and 2021 will be another chance to be reminded of that. Here's what...
It was a year when the economy survived while technology thrived, reminding us that science doesn’t stop, even during a health crisis.
~It was in March, during the state of emergency, that Animal Crossing: New Horizons, the new game for Nintendo Switch came out, and it hit the...
~Admissions will be restricted through steps such as distributing numbered tickets to allow for COVID-19 mitigation measures~ Nintendo’s first theme park, Super Nintendo World,...
Bookmark is a JAPAN Forward feature that gives you long reads for the weekend. Each edition introduces one overarching thought that branches off to a...
Bookmark is a JAPAN Forward feature that gives you long reads for the weekend. Each edition introduces one overarching thought that branches off to a...
