The new Amazon Prime series takes inspiration from the original game and sets the show in a place called Kamurocho, but is it a real location?

Elderly people in Japan love Ohtani,” Tokyo resident Tatsuo Shinke said. “It’s my mother. And all my mother’s friends." ...

Ubisoft has officially removed the three-day early access for Assassin's Creed: Shadows for all versions of the game.

He co-hosts The Besties, is a board member of the Frida Cinema, and created NYU’s first games journalism course. Want to learn Japanese by playing video games and watching anime? A band of ...

The cult classic Yakuza franchise finally comes to Nintendo Switch with Yakuza Kiwami, and it's a stellar starting point for ...

Ghost of Yotei's setting outside the rule of greater Japan leaves the game open to more non-Japanese influences, including ...

Gamers are getting impatient, but game developers and their livelihoods are hoping for that Switch 2 reveal to be a success. It seems that Japanese game companies are pinning their hopes on the ...

Netflix has shut down its Southern California-based video game studio, referred to internally as “Team Blue,” which had a ...

The Yakuza franchise is getting the live-action treatment with Like A Dragon heading to Amazon Prime. But where is the series set and is Kamurocho a real place in Japan?

Yonago GAINAX, the company founded by GAINAX co-founder and Princess Maker series creator Takami Akai, has announced Nihon ...

Streaming TV has been a great home for episodic dramas set in Japan, with Shogun breaking records in awards season and Tokyo Vice showing shocking sides of Japan’s (fictionalized) criminal underworld.

Blankets modeled after the NieR Automata Ver1.1a anime, which appeared first in physical crane games, are also added to Taito ...