An action horror game with retro-graphics, set in the sprawling megacity of Sydney3.
This 1986 Japanese adventure game showing up on Steam in 2026 guarantees it makes my GOTY list—you've really got to play it
Relics doesn't belong in a museum: it belongs on your PC.
Fight, Magic, Items: The History of Final Fantasy, Drag…
Take a journey through the history of Japanese role-pla…
Project Shadowglass
A stealth-focused immersive sim set within a dark fantasy kingdom. Plan daring heists, infiltrate forbidden locales, and escape with priceless artifacts. Features revolutionary 3D pixel art graphics and lasting consequences where every action could leave a trail back to you.
Experimental Games Showcase
The Experimental Game Workshop Showcase, which featured games like 'Baba Is You', 'The Longing', 'Braid', 'Untitled Goose Game' and 'Katamari Damacy', is back for its 24th year at GDC! In this fast-paced, game-packed session, panelists will...
Samurai city - Works in Progress Magazine
For three hundred years, Japan enjoyed enviable stability and peace. All it took was locking up its warlike samurai elite in the world’s least efficient city.
Folklore.org: The Original Macintosh
Yojimbo (1961)
A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro…
Turn-based RPG Entropy offers up a world abandoned by the gods that looks like a PS1 game fished from a toilet
Come wallow in the demo for Entropy, an absorbingly ugly take on the Final Fantasy RPG format from the creators of Dread Delusion.
» Planescape: Torment, Part 2: …to the Desktop The Digital Antiquarian
The photographer’s model for the visage of The Nameless One on the now-iconic Planescape: Torment box was actually Guido Henkel, the game’s producer, who was enlisted at the last minute when the planned professional model had a “scheduling conflict.”
This Game Did Everything. What Happened?
The Sword of Doom (1966)
Ryunosuke, a gifted swordsman plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate rule, has no moral code and kills without remorse. It’s a way of life that leads to madness.
Gurafiku: Japanese Graphic Design
The Gurafiku archive of Japanese graphic design is a collection of visual research surveying the history of graphic design in Japan.
On Armies Unknown
A fan site for Unknown Armies 3, an urban fantasy horror roleplaying game. Written by Greg Stolze and John Tynes, published by Atlas Games.
‘The devil’s child’: the rise and fall of the only female yakuza
The long read: Mako Nishimura fought her way into the Japanese underworld, but drug addiction and the slow demise of organised crime gangs almost destroyed her
