In an interview with the Studio Ghibli owned magazine, Neppuu, renowned animator Hayao Miyazaki discussed his distaste towards, well, just about everything tech related. His newest device to hate on is the iPad, or as he call it, the “game machine-like thing.” More »

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Piggybacking off of the tremendous success freemium games like FarmVille have been having on social networking sites, Japanese game developer Acquire are bringing the free-to-play experience to home consoles for the first time ever with the RPG Bakumatsu heading to Playstation Network on June 26. More »

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Japanese beatboxer, Hikakin, has released video of him performing a Super Mario themed music session. There are 5 classic Mario themes mixed in there, how many can you identify? More »

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If there is one thing that is awesome in Final Fantasy XIII that everyone has to agree upon no matter what, it has to be how attractive the ladies are. Lightning and Vanille are super hot, and Serah is right there with them. So then the question is, what is hotter than the girls of Final Fantasy? Well, super hot girls in real life cosplaying the super hot girls in Final Fantasy! More »

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Last month Square Enix told us they were bringing the treasured Final Fantasy series to the iPhone/ iPod Touch. Final Fantasy I and II are the first out the gates, but expect to see installments III through VI on Apple’s App Store if sales are admirable this time around. We’ve already seen screen shots of how the turn based controls will be handled on the touch screen and now via a Japanese promo we get to see the game in action. The trailer in all it’s pixelated glory can be found below. More »

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Believe it! I’m on a mission to find the ten sexiest Japanese Video Game ladies of all time, and on that mission I totally went. More »

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From Ningin: Do you want an action figure? More specifically, a Cloud action figure but are confused by all the versions out there? Look no further, I’ll give you a recommendation and review of my latest action figures here. More »

Translation be hard time for people.

There is no denying that most of the gaming gold brought to the United States is shipped over here from different countries, but no one country gives us more to ogle about than the Land of the Rising Sun. Japan keeps packing our gullets full of their delicious gaming gravy and I myself can’t help but to come back for more. But like most foods, those yummy morsels pass through many a hand before they are properly processed and packed, and a lot can go wrong along the way, specifically in terms of translation from Japanese to English. Here are some games that didn’t quite get it right when they made the hop over the Pacific. More »

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Nowhere, nonexistent actually. At least not in the form we see today. This is why Wirebot is celebrating our new sister site that just recently launched called Rekuru; a place dedicated to everything that is Japanese! To do this, we have some awesome posts lined up for you More »

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