Category Archives: Games Culture
When Yakuza met Sylvanian Families – Culture Collection #12
What happens when you cross the gentle country lifestyle championed by Sylvanian Families, the internationally popular line of anthropomorphic animal mini-figures, with the hard-boiled, gripping criminal underworld that plays host to SEGA’s Yakuza series of crime games? Twitter user @momomousoumomo calls it ‘Yakuzania’ … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Culture Collection, Fan Works, Features, Games Culture, Japan, Sega, Toys, Yakuza
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Japanese indie game scene documentary Branching Paths releasing later this month
Japan’s indie game scene has a tendency to receive a lot less attention than its western counterpart, despite a keen community of hobbyist and professional developers alike spread across the country. Events such as BitSummit have begun to gain traction as … Continue reading
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Tagged Branching Paths, Film, Indie Developer, Indie Games, Japan
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Experience an overlooked adventure with English-dubbed Satellaview Zelda
The Satellaview has become something of a curio amongst Nintendo fans, both due to a diverse library of interesting titles and content, as well as a somewhat peculiar distribution method that has resulted in a fair amount of said content … Continue reading
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Tagged Fan Works, Games Culture, Nintendo, Satellaview, SNES, Super Famicom, The Legend of Zelda
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Get fighting fit with Street Fighter V Strength Training Gear
It goes without saying that characters of the Street Fighter V are pretty buff – on occasions, arguably too buff. To undertake such superhuman feats as conjuring balls of energy from thin air, performing hundreds of kicks per second and pulling off physics-defying haircuts clearly requires … Continue reading
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Tagged Capcom, Fitness, Games Culture, Import, Japan, Merchandise, Street Fighter
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Summer re-prints from THE KING OF GAMES
Fans of tasteful gaming apparel will be pleased to know that THE KING OF GAMES have re-printed some of their most popular designs, for sale this month on the EDITMODE online store. This is the second wave of re-prints in 2016 (some designs from … Continue reading
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Tagged EDITMODE, Fashion, Games Culture, Japan, THE KING OF GAMES
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Space Harrier model kits let you enter the Fantasy Zone, store your stationary
It’s a known fact that the only way to truly keep your desk tidy is by storing your pens and pencils inside the hollowed out head of an Ida, the imposing stone head enemies from Sega’s surreal sci-fi rail shooter … Continue reading
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Tagged Arcade, Games Culture, Import, Japan, Merchandise, Sega, Space Harrier, Toys
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A ridiculously stylish R-Type animation made mostly by one person
Irem‘s side scrolling shoot-em-up classic R-Type, known for its grotesque alien bosses and intense difficulty amongst other things, has been remarkably captured in this unique animated short that tells the story of a young man trapped inside what has been labelled as one … Continue reading
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Tagged Animation, Anime, Arcade, Fan Works, Games Culture, Irem, R-Type, Shoot 'em up
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Highlights from the 2016 My Famicase Exhibition
METEOR‘s yearly ‘My Famicase Exhibition’ cartridge design show is finally open for 2016! Just like last year, a wide selection of different artists from around the world have contributed their own unique designs for fictional Famicom cartridge labels that take advantage … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Famicase, Famicom, Features, Games Culture, Japan, Meteor, My Famicase Exhibition, Nintendo
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8-Bit Handicraft, Oven-Cooked Cartridges and More Erasers – Culture Collection #11
A certain beauty can often be found in simplicity, and more often than not the designs of old consoles display this in full force. This unique, almost space-age Famicom setup was photographed by masskutt at the Pixel Out exhibition, held … Continue reading
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Legends, Erasers and the 90s – Culture Collection #10
In terms of gaming history, this February is a very important month. With the likes of The Legend of Zelda turning 30, Pokémon turning 20 and most importantly, Sonic Riders turning 10 years old, it’s a fitting time to celebrate the impact and … Continue reading
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