Two swords once carried by samurai have been found during excavations in Ichijodani, one of medieval Japan’s largest cities. On the outskirts of Fukui, a city of a quarter of a million people in ...

Like clockwork, another four and a half months later, Final Fantasy 14 has dropped its latest core content patch, “Into the Mist.” Patch 7.4 brings us the latest Main Scenario Quest content, with the ...

The film was long and getting longer by the day. Worse still, the director was bent on shooting outdoors, on a mountainous peninsula west of Tokyo, and the rain, during the interminably long ...

A Canadian who has worked in the gaming industry for over two decades, Beck grew up on games such as Final Fantasy and Super Mario Bros. He specalizes in roleplaying games, but covers titles in almost ...

Square Enix recently dropped the second part of its announcements for Final Fantasy XIV Patch 7.4, which will arrive on December 16. This patch will start the new story leading into the 8.x expansion ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Thus when fighting throughout the series, Kenshin instead uses the blunt end of his sword and ...

Everyone's favorite amateur film and TV critic and master game designer Hideo Kojima has once again chimed in with his thoughts on a popular new show, heaping praise on Netflix's hit series Last ...

Yesterday, I commented that Last Samurai Standing on Netflix had an exceedingly rare double 100% Rotten Tomatoes scores across both critics and audiences. Today, that’s almost still true, albeit the ...

In 1582, the first Japanese diplomatic mission bound for Europe set off from Nagasaki. Conceived of by Jesuit missionaries, the Tenshō embassy was composed of four young Japanese noblemen who over the ...

Last Samurai Standing is a bloody historical drama pitting once-powerful samurai against each other in a cutthroat tournament. It ends on multiple cliffhangers, teasing this batch of episodes as only ...

It ends on multiple cliffhangers, teasing this batch of episodes as only the "first chapter." All six episodes are currently streaming on Netflix. In this century of rampant elite corruption and the ...