This Japan trip has been a whirlwind that I just wasn’t expecting. I guess that makes sense when I haven’t been back in so many years. Nonetheless, I do have plenty of material for quite a few articles. I just need to find the time to write them. I do…
Read MoreTourism by Matt S. Okay, so here I am in Japan. Taking an overnight flight (and I can never sleep on those) left me pretty tired, and the raw heat and humidity of Japan at this time of year saps energy like nothing you’ll ever believe, but the main thing…
Read MoreThis is just a quick note today to say I’m on my way back from Japan. Talk about depressing. This really has been the trip of a lifetime. But I guess good things have to come to an end and besides I’d run out of money. Anyway, I still have…
Read MoreOne of the oddities about TGS when compared to game shows elsewhere in the world is that TGS organisers allow, if not outright encourage, “booth babes.” Every single major booth at the show had brightly costumed men and women handing out promotional material, posing for photos, and otherwise being of…
Read MoreOne of the oddities about TGS when compared to game shows elsewhere in the world is that TGS organisers allow, if not outright encourage, “booth babes.” Every single major booth at the show had brightly costumed men and women handing out promotional material, posing for photos, and otherwise being of…
Read MoreYesterday, 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 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…
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