Yesterday, I reported on my top five picks from the main floor of TGS in 2015. This time around, I’m listing my top choices from the indie games section. This year’s indie games section at TGS was genuinely impressive, with developers from everywhere from Australia, to Scandinavia, Poland, Japan, Philippines,…
Read MoreTGS is an interesting event. As a business conference (for the first two of its four days) the show is much more about networking and interviewing than actually playing games. This year, for example, I conducted five formal interviews with developers to turn into articles on the website (you’ll see…
Read MoreAsia’s largest gaming event, Tokyo Game Show, was bigger and better this year than ever before, boasting a record number of exhibitors from all over the world, and of all sizes, from indies of one developer through to the mega publishers Square Enix, Sony, SEGA and Koei Tecmo. I have…
Read MoreAsakusa is an area that sees its fair share of gaijin tourists. They come because it is renowned for two things; firstly, it has a mammoth temple that dominates the area, and secondly, it’s world renowned for being a small case study of “traditional Japan” that exists close to the…
Read MoreIf you want an example of a rhythm game that could never really work in the west, it’s surely Taiko no Tatsujin V Version. With huge tracklist that could only ever be relevant to the Japanese, Taiko is also ridiculously colourful and has an energy to it that can only…
Read MoreAs I mentioned in the last DDNet does Japan, a trip to Disneyland or DisneySea is almost a given thing for tourists that come to Tokyo. Another one is the Ueno Zoo, or for its formal name, the Ueno Zoological Gardens. This is something I actually hadn’t done in the…
Read MoreAs I mentioned last week, a typhoon that came through Japan left us all a little… wet. The day before it got too wet to even leave the house, though, was the day that I had a trip to DisneySea planned. It was still utterly torrential rain conditions, but it…
Read MoreOne of the (many, as you can probably guess by now) things that I love about Japan is that it is still a culture that appreciates and enjoys reading. Back home in Australia book stores are disappearing one by one, and we’re down to just one major book store chain…
Read MoreFor the last couple of days now I’ve been largely stuck indoors, as a typhoon came raging past. It didn’t hit Tokyo proper, but it caused an absolute mass of rainfall and powerful, gusting wind, and it was simply too uncomfortable to go outside in for any great length of…
Read MoreAfter indulging the very high-tech Miku obsessive in me for a couple of days by attending both her expo and concert, I felt a compelling need to get away from all that and back to nature. And when you’re based in Tokyo that means a couple of hours drive to…
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