When it came to choosing his medium, wood sculptor Haroshi certainly picked a unique one: old broken skakeboard decks.
James Kay is a veteran game developer in Japan — as well as founder of Score Studios — and he’s now planning on turning the long-running blog he wrote “anonymously,” Japanmanship, into a book.
All of the contributions to this year’s “My Famicase Exhibition” have now been posted online.
The “My Famicase Exhibition” returns again this year for a third outing, with a show that uses classic Nintendo Famicom — the Japanese equivalent of the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) — cartridges as canvas.
Videogames made in Japan have been getting a bad rap for a while now, especially in terms of commercial success outside of Japan, and a recent thread on Japanese message board 2 Channel picks up on some of the problems.
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Yoshitaka Amano — best known for his character designs on the Final Fantasy video game series — debuts a new series of works.
“So you wanna be a Japanese video game programmer?” If Matt Alt’s recent piece for CNNGo on the average industry pay scales is anything to go by, you might not want to.
Patrick Macias is kicking off a new lecture series, “TokyoScope: The Wild & Crazy World of Japanese Cult Films,” at the VIZ Cinema in San Francisco early next month.
BQLSI STAR LASER is a new iPhone game that replicates old battery-powered portable games.