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Videogames’ troubled relationship with Japanese history
The Meiji era is easier for games to ignore or obfuscate than address.
Japan
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The Coral Cave’s dreamy, watercolor world inspires childhood fantasy
A beautiful game set in Japan’s Okinawa archipelago.
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Exploring Canal City, a Japanese mall straight outta Myst
Exploring Canal City, Japan’s mythically strange shopping plaza.
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Japan’s strangest videogames and the person who finds them
Videogames without the moral obligation.
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The semiotics of controller design
Circle, Square, Triangle, and X.
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The unmistakable influence of Shintoism on videogame history
Japan’s naturalistic religion defines many of our shared experiences.
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The makers of Super Mario RPG and No More Heroes are making a tiny mobile game
They’re taking inspiration from Fez and Gone Home.
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Meet Voltage, the Japanese dating sim company your girlfriend’s been cheating on you with
A Japanese dating sim company tells us what it’s like to romance women from around the globe.
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Creator of Clock Tower announces "the ultimate J-horror experience"
“There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.” – Alfred Hitchcock Hifumi Kouno, creator of the classic 1995 Japanese horror franchise Clock Tower, announced an upcoming spiritual successor to the series, to be developed by a small studio with some very big names, called Nude Maker
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Like its predecessor, Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair is compulsively readable
Real, live drama. Sometimes dead.
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Friend and Foe releases new images from Vane’s dusty expanse
Former member’s of Last Guardian team are making something new–and dusty
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Japanese "Device Art" exhibition captures playful interactions with hardware
If you had a chance to check MoMA’s last design exhibition Talk to Me, you might have noticed several devices such as Sputniko!’s Menstruation Machine which mimics the pain of, well, menstruation. Or Kate Hartman’s Talk to Yourself Hat which transmits sounds from one’s mouth directly into one’s ears