Plus Alpha is a weekly column that explores life in Japan from the perspective of American expatriate and game-industry veteran Jarik Sikat. Having worked in numerous areas of the game industry since 1994, Sikat relocated to Japan in 2010. Most of you know Japan as the land of videogames and …
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High Horse is a rotating opinion column in which GamesRadar editors and guest writers are invited to express their personal thoughts on games, the people who play them and the industry at large. By now, chances are you’ve heard some of the uproar surrounding the Stop Online Piracy Act, or …
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Plus Alpha is a weekly column that explores life in Japan from the perspective of American expatriate and game-industry veteran Jarik Sikat. Having worked in numerous areas of the game industry since 1994, Sikat relocated to Japan in 2010. Think fast: If you had 24 hours in Japan, what do …
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Ask GR Anything is a weekly Q%26A column that answers questions submitted by readers (as well as questions we’re particularly curious about ourselves). Got a burning question about games or the industry? Ask us in the comments below and you may just get it answered! We’d like to preface this …
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Late yesterday US time, we reported (opens in new tab) on an article posted on Wired.com (opens in new tab) that had some big news pertaining to Shigeru Miyamoto, the man most associated with Mario, Zelda, and almost every other thing Nintendo does. The article quoted the 59 year-old detailing …
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Back the day when we were thankful to play whatever Japanese RPGs we were given, we looked wistfully at all the huge titles that never came to the US, including Final Fantasy V. English-speaking players couldn’t officially familiarize themselves with the game until it was released on the PlayStation, but …
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Tales Studio, the independent developer responsible for the Tales series of RPGs since 1995’s Tales of Phantasia, has been closed (opens in new tab) by parent company Namco Bandai. But Tales fans can take comfort in the fact that upcoming titles in the series haven’t been cancelled – however, with …
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Game music has been a passion of ours roughly since, oh, 1985, but in the past 10 years, it’s come to mean something more. Don’t get us wrong, we still love the beepatronic music of the 8- and 16-bit periods (and the wave of chiptune artists it inspired), but the …
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