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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
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Forget plight in Machi Koro
In a world free of debt and disaster, how well can you build a town?
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Watch how a Japanese villager is replacing the dead with real-life NPCs
Take a moment and watch this micro-documentary on a 64-year-old Japanese woman who is sewing elaborate dolls, leaving them in the place of departed neighbors from her dying village in the valley of Shikoku. For the past decade, Ayano Tsukimi has been repopulating the remote village of Nagoro with ar
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Who is Deception IV: Blood Ties for?
Fool me four times, shame on everyone.
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Danganronpa brings the visual novel up to speed
Before it dies of old age.
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Box Art Review: The surreal consumption of Katamari Damacy
What could be inside this thing? Everything.
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Suicidal Tendencies
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