News by Matt S. Over the weekend the latest Wonder Festival took place in Japan – the twice annually convention in which all the figure manufacturers come out to show the latest models and designs that fans will be adding to their collection. Hatsune Miku is always prominent at these…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Wonder Festival happens twice per year in Japan, and it’s an opportunity for the various hobby companies that produce figures for anime characters and the like to come along and share with the public what they’re working on. The E3 of plastic collectibles, if you will.…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. It’s strange that the Nintendo Switch has been around for so long now, and there’s still no Yu-Gi-Oh on it. Konami publishes that license on every console, and the console doesn’t quite feel rounded until there’s a Japanese TCG on it. The good news is that…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Over the weekend, another Wonder Festival came and went, the bi-annual event that Japanese figure manufacturers use to show off their upcoming new releases. As usual, it’s an event that I pay very close attention to, because it tells me what Hatsune Miku figures I’ll be…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. After Tokyo Game Show, the most awesome event on the calendar each year has got to be Japan’s Summer Wonder Festival, where all the figure and collectibles manufacturers come together to show off everything that is going to inflict pain on our wallets in the coming…
Read MoreMass Effect: Andromeda is a conflicting game, and our own feelings on the game are mixed; parts we love, and other parts we do not. As we start to play the game, we sit down to have an early impressions chat. We also talk about portable gaming, and specifically what…
Read MoreList by Clark A. Nintendo launched amiibo, its answer to the booming toys-to-life market, less than two years ago. What began as a sparse river of 12 figures has rapidly widened into an ocean of eternal plastic success. Now with over 100 miniatures and support for dozens of games, the…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. This weekend played host to the “Tokyo Game Show of figurines.” Wonder Festival, or WonFes, is a biannual celebration of the collectible figure industry, and as with TGS, it basically tells us what we’ll be spending our money on in the years ahead. Over on Twitter…
Read MoreThanks to one of my eagle-eyed Twitter buddies (@JRPGdotmoe), I now know that there’s a figurine coming for my favourite costume from Persona 4: Dancing All Night. Related reading: An in-depth feature on the harem costume; its history and why it’s so popular with Japanese game developers. Most of you…
Read More2015 was one of the best years on record for gaming, and publishers didn’t want to let us forget that. There have been loads of great merchandise and collector’s editions released in the last 12 months. From the limited edition swag given out at events like E3 and Gamescom to…
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