On the one hand: I normally don’t enjoy action games, yet found Yakuza’s take on it incredibly accommodating, not to mention a gratifying guilty pleasure. I will miss it.

Speaking as a Japanese dude: the real cultural force at work here is the Japanaese concept of “Meiwaku” (causing trouble to others).

It’s called Forest Of Liars, Not Forest Of Strawmen

People of Japan, we don’t like him either.

There’s actually a really interesting documentary that just came out in Quebec. A rich start-up founder’s son threatened to commit suicide on Twitch and later actually followed through. His dad then produced a film trying to figure stuff out. It’s far from perfect, as there’s a big gap between the perspectives of…

I have never in my life paid attention to how I load up the roll, nor have I ever even noticed which side the paper is hanging. Who gives a shit?

Booth pirates> booth babes

And rightly so. It’s called panache.

And more infos with better translation this time: (credit to Gematsu)

Jesus i hope it’s not too big. I have the 20gb old school model... :(

The “coin toss” is just a description of how it would feel. The consciousness never warps. When the copy is made, there is two “you”s. Since the original and the copy are identical, each one would feel like they are the original. The consciousness in the original body would FEEL like it lost, since it is stuck in the…

Wondering how Final Fantasy got its name? Fortunately for you, Square Enix Executive Producer Akitoshi Kawazu recently went through a quick rundown of how the title came to be. Interestingly, Kawazu mentioned that “Fighting Fantasy” was one possibility that could have been used, but Square Enix decided against it…

How about we let people do whatever the fuck they want and the consequences of how others perceive them are theirs to own?

Says right in the video that the glitch was discovered by someone else using an emulator. This wasn't by trial and error that the glitch was discovered, people were looking at the game's code and memory to discover this.

He also did "The Impresario". A amazing version of the opera from Final Fantasy VI.

Totilo: It's been so long that I miss both of them. They're both great, but it's been a long time. The [2D] Metroid people don't really much anymore. The only one like that recently was a Batman game made for the 3DS and the Vita that was created by some guys who used to be at Retro. So I miss that style of game. As…

Here's one of their more well known and successful techniques:

Ear Attack. Well at least they got the name right this time around...

So so many tripping hazards.