Final Fantasy XIII Elixir – I want some!

Final Fantasy XIII will be out in Japan in a couple days and is expected to be one of the biggest video game releases ever. Th

Japanese Man Marries Video Game Girl

A Japanese Man who goes by the name “SAL 9000” has become quite the celebrity, not for being found naked in a publ

Killing my Video Game Blog

My video game blog is a site I started in April 2008 that focused entirely on video games, my experiences playing them and hap

God Eater Japanime Trailer

Watching trailers of upcoming video games is a favourite lazy pastime of mine. During one of those sessions earlier today I su

Tokyo Game Show 2009 Cosplay

Other than information on new games coming out one of the main reasons I get excited about the Tokyo Game Show each year is to

Table Flipping Japanese Arcade Game

To all those retards claiming that video games make you violent I fear you have finally gotten the proof you need. A new game

Tokyo Game Show 2009 Information

The 2009 staging of Japan’s Tokyo Game Show will be held from September 24 – 27 at Makuhari Messe Hall in Chiba Pr

NihongoUp Contest Winners

A big thank you to everyone who took the time to enter the NihongoUp giveaway contest I have been hosting for the past 2 weeks

Anime based on Halo Videogame coming

The trilogy of Halo games may be over but Microsoft is not prepared to let the Halo cash cow lay idle in the pasture. The milk

NihongoUp – Japanese educational game

My study of the Japanese language is a stop and go process but I have been making a lot of progress lately. On the reading sid

I Survived a Japanese Game Show Season 1

I Survived a Japanese Game Show is a hilarious, fun to watch and quirky television show that premiered on ABC last June. I had

Liar Game – A Competition for Liars

My Japanese drama plunge continues and my latest review is of Liar Game, the first Japanese drama series of the few  have wat

My Japanese Coach – Update

It’s about a month now since I’ve been playing the Nintendo DS game My Japanese Coach in my spare time. So far Mos

I’ve bought My Japanese Coach for the Nintendo DS

I’ve been meaning to buy a title for my Nintendo DS that would aid my study of Japanese and my latest purchase for my DS

Tokyo Game Show 2008 Cosplay

Just like at Tokyo Game Show 2007 the cosplayers were out and about at Tokyo Game Show 2008 in all kinds of costumes represent

Atlantica Online Cosplay

A few days ago I surfed into a random fantasy MMORPG called Atlantica Online just as their open beta was about to begin. I dow

Japanese study material has arrived

I have tonnes of Japanese study material, all kinds of text books, notebooks, workbooks, print-outs, websites and audio CDs bu

Third Nintendo DS Lite and Brawl

My sister broke the first one, I sold they second one to help cover the cost of my new camera and now I have a third special e

Playstation 3 struggling?

The Playstation 3 launch frenzy has died down and after a long drought without any mega hit games available it seems the Xbox

Tokyo Game Show 2007 Cosplaying

Aspiring cosplayers like myself look forward to events like TGS to get a peek into the country that invented the “hobby&

TGS 2007 has ended

As expected the 2007 staging of the Tokyo Game Show was a resounding success with almost 200, 000 people passing through the M

2007 Tokyo Game Show has begun

Its still the 19th of September here but In Japan there are already more than half way through the 20th so the 2007 Tokyo Game

Buy me a Potion my HP is low

Only 77, 777 bottles of a special Final Fantasy potion will be available as part of celebrations to mark the 10th anniversary

Official Square Enix Online Merchandise Store

If you have played any games seriously over an extended period within the last 20-something years and you don’t know of