Video games are an excellent way to learn about history, science, and even other cultures. It's getting easier and easier to ...

That first year of the COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc on a lot of peoples' stability. It also led to an increase in video ...

When you want to play video games you probably head home or to a friend’s house. But in Japan video games are more social. Just about every town has a video game arcade. In Tokyo there's a ...

Like many other religions, Japan’s native belief system, Shinto, is in decline. You wouldn’t know it by walking around Meiji Jingu Shrine in Tokyo. Every day th ...

Perhaps the best RPG ever made outside of Japan, The Witcher 3 is epic and ... You can find some of video games’ best writing in this fantasy world. RimWorld is... well, it's whatever you ...

I met two of the inspirational pioneers of early game music in Japan, Manami Matsumae and Yoko Shimamura. Both women defined the sound of video games through their work for Capcom in the 1980s and ...

Addictions to online activities and video games have surged in Japan during the COVID-19 pandemic, and dependence on such diversions was more pronounced among individuals infected with the virus ...

There's a bumper crop of scary video games out this Halloween, from the excellent Silent Hill 2 to retro frightener Fear The ...

Tetris is, arguably, the perfect video game, and it's a shame we don ... Tetris Battle Gaiden never left Japan, but that is about to change with the Tetris Forever collection coming later this ...

Virtuos, which supports the development of some of the world’s biggest games, plans to acquire a Japanese studio in the coming months to expand its presence in the No. 3 video game market.

The results of the study come as video games are typically blamed for many of society's problems ... The study is titled "Causal effect of video gaming on mental well-being in Japan 2020-2022." It ...