Tag: games

June 11, 2017 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. It’s been about two decades since the birth of MMORPGs – that’s Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games, for anyone who doesn’t know. Hollywood has seen these monster Middle Earths both as a threat – they’re among the greatest media rivals to the movies – and as a property to exploit; witness last […]

April 15, 2017 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. Sword Art Online: Ordinal Scale, the newest instalment of the Sword Art Online franchise (and the film is all–new, barring some brief flashbacks) was first announced in Japan in October 2015. Weirdly, it has already predicted the future. In the summer of the following year, anyone in a big Tokyo park like […]

March 7, 2017 · 0 comments

By Andy Hanley. Over the course of two TV anime series and one movie, Psycho-Pass has done plenty to explore its imagined dystopian future where the Japanese populace’s mental state is constantly monitored and checked for the slightest hint of criminality. But, for all of its efforts, there is still no shortage of other elements […]

January 28, 2017 · 2 comments

By Andy Hanley. It’s become a truism that successfully adapting a video game into another medium is incredibly hard – after all, the main pull of any game is the agency that it grants the player, be that shooting, hacking and slashing your way to victory or choosing the dialogue and narrative paths of a […]

October 30, 2016 · 0 comments

By Meghan Ellis. Continuing the trend of people telling us all about the untold history of Japanese things, The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers by John Szczepaniak sets out to educate Western readers on the pitfalls and practices of the games industry in Japan. Taking the form of a collection of interviews following a […]