Sometimes it's good to be in second place. That's been the case with God Eater, Bandai Namco's would-be challenger to Capcom’s juggernaut Monster Hunter series. Though it never quite left Monster Hunter’s long shadow, God Eate...

Given that I'm not even a couple days worth of play into a hunting game others dump hundreds of hours into mastering, I feel it's a little bit early for me to be saying if God Eater 3 is worth picking up. That said, from these limited ...

A couple of weeks ago I speculated in my early impressions that Tales of Vesperia - now available once again in English after nearly a decade mired in a past of Xbox 360 exclusivity and held by a publisher seemingly cold on the idea of...

It will never not be a little weird to me to realize how popular the Fate franchise is, but the truth can't be denied: It's up there. Practically a household name among the nerdy and loaded enough to buy building-sized ads to put up ou...

I won't bury the lede here. Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown is a fantastic Ace Combat game. If any part of the pre-launch hype appealed to you, or if you played and enjoyed one of the previous numbered Ace Combat games, you owe it to ...

I have never played Tales of Vesperia. But for a rather long time, I wanted it quite badly, because it was one of the games I couldn't have. Ten years ago, early in the lives of both the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3, Microsoft scored a co...

You know what I love most about the Ace Combat franchise? It's not the fighter jets or the flight-simming (though those are cool, too), but oddly enough, the stories. Ever since I came on board the series with Ace Combat 4: Shattered S...

I'm no game developer, but trying my hand at the process has always been an idle fantasy of mine, making the likes of RPG Maker, the venerable series of self-contained development tools, a thing to keep my eye on. That makes the latest news...

Ever wanted to play a different game each day? Sounds like it might be an expensive prospect, but things get easier when you expand your net to include indie and experimental titles. But there are so many! What should you play?! Deciding th...

I never fail to panic every time I realize Game of the Year season is coming up, but 2018’s frenzy was especially intense because, as I considered my favorite games (and anime, because that’s how I do this piece every year) ...

Fate/Grand Order's big Christmas event was a silly, generous diversion from the game's usually serious story about restoring human history with the help of the ghosts of heroes from across time and space, but now this train ain't stopping u...

Whenever a popular game gets adapted into an anime series, the presumption is that the anime is intended for folks who can't be bothered to play the game. That's been less the case in recent years with adaptations that cater directly to exi...

I must confess: I haven't used my PlayStation VR headset in months. It's not down to disappointment or boredom, but mainly because I haven't had the time to just "disappear" for the length of time you need to get a satisfying session out of...

I know reboots of popular old names from the '90s is but one part of Netflix's strategy for keeping people subscribed, but I'll be damned if I'm not jazzed at the news that they're also just putting some good old stuff back on there, in som...

On the off chance you needed more evidence that Fate/Grand Order is somehow the most profitable in-joke in all of anime, the free-to-play mobile wife casino has just kicked off its latest holiday-themed event, The Little Santa Alter. I...

It's time again for your semi-regular look at the season's best and brightest anime! Welcome once more to Japanator's Anime Binge Log! Last time we took a look at the latest chapter of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, a show that, while not univer...

Halloween might have already passed, but for those who practice it, celebrating the dead isn't over yet! And like the spirits of those passed, Japanator's Binge Log has risen again from the ashes of summer to talk about - what else - the ne...

Do you know My Hero Academia? How about Boku no Hero Academia? If you’re aware of the blockbuster manga and anime series, that goes by either one of those names, then My Hero One’s Justice might just be the fighting game for y...

Hankering for some more Star Trek: Discovery in your life? Don't answer that, because Star Trek Online is banking that you are, ahead of the release of the show's second season next year. Indeed, the game's next big content expansion, ...

If you were to tell me that your Uncle Who Totally Works At Sega said that Valkyria Chronicles 4, the latest game in the tactical role-playing franchise, was actually developed in 2009 as the original sequel to 2008's Valkyria Chronicles, a...

It took them a while, but Project Aces and Bandai Namco are finally ready to tell joystick-grippers when they can break out their flight controllers for another Ace Combat game: January 18, 2019 is the confirmed worldwide release ...

Characterizing the relationship between the fanbases of the Love Live! and [email protected] tends to veer between "beautiful friendship" and "vicious rivalry", depending whose social media feeds you follow, but mobile megagame Granblue ...

The sun is high, and the shows are hot, which means it's time again for Japanator's Binge Log, our mid-season look at all our favorite anime series! This season brings with it no less than three hits each of alternate-world appeal, devastat...

The headline is actually rhetorical because as of a few hours ago, we know the answer: All of them, and then some. Fate/Grand Order's first summertime special event has gone live in the English version of the game, and brings with it a stor...