Hunting Yankee is a new game out of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea that's sure to rankle US nationalists just three weeks after president Donald Trump threatened the DPRK with "fire and fury like the world has never seen." "The 3...

White Day is a Korean horror game with a serious tone where you try to escape a haunted school with a girl. There are unlockable (and now downloadable) costumes for all the characters in the game including the protagonist, the th...

A game so scary players emailed the developers imploring they make it less frightening so they can beat it, or even horrifying enough to drive them to suicide? Such stories developed around this game similar to the mythical Polybius ar...

Days before the PlayStation 4 and PC version of the White Day: A Labyrinth Named School releases, a sequel has been announced to the cult classic Korean horror game. While the PS4 and PC remake versions are getting an exclusive post-ga...

For a good while, I kept telling myself that I would play all of the main Ace Attorney games. At the moment, I managed to finish the first two Phoenix Wright titles, so I'm not too far behind in this serious trial. With Korea's Game Rating ...

After nearly three months of silence, PQube has given the final release date for White Day: A Labyrinth Named School. The remake, which released in South Korea back in 2015, will arrive on PC and PlayStation 4 August 1 for North America, a...

The extravagant MMORPG Black Desert Online has found its way onto Steam and that is a great excuse to share our favorite character-creator images. Let's see 'em. Personally, I've got to go with this one that looks a bit too much like Tom Cr...

Why shoot up North Koreans in games like Homefront when you can make love instead? Drawing clear inspiration from Go! Go! Nippon! ~My First Trip to Japan~ including the name, Stay! Stay! Democratic People's Republic of Korea ...

An event in South Korea, featuring characters created in Japan, set to the tune of an American made musical -- globalization at its finest (or most masochistic). Songdo, South Korea hosted the Pokemon World Festival this past week, and one ...

This is my first time hearing about White Day: A Labyrinth Named School, and going off this trailer and what Stephen tells me, I feel like I've missed out on something special. The 2001 Korean survival horror game is coming to North Americ...

Whenever there's PaRappa news, our own Jonathan Holmes is on it -- and I'm grateful. I love this series, but Holmes seems to have his own personal radar for it. There have been rumblings for a new iteration for a long while, but the Korean ...

Every so often, I partake in a food gimmick. I mean, most of them are overpriced cash-grabs meant to push an IP, but damnit, some of them are just plain fun. That latter situation is definitely the case for these Pokemon donuts. They consis...

This happened last week, so it's not news, but since I also feel like driving my car through the ostentatious glass walls of several institutions just for the moment of ecstasy as the sun shines brilliantly against a billion pieces of shatt...

Arc System Works, the Yokohama-based studio best known for fighters like Guilty Gear and BlazBlue, is expanding its operations with a new "Asia Branch" located in Seoul, South Korea. The satellite office opened today and will be providing t...

Overwatch is a phenomenon. Consider: League of Legends, with its $1 million world championships, with its hundreds of millions of fans tuning in. It's huge in a way that most of us cannot fathom, yeah? And it's been the most-played game in ...

A 17-year-old Korean girl who goes by Gegury is ranked as Overwatch's 8th best player in the world. She's so good, seemingly from out of nowhere, that, "After winning the qualifiers for the Nexus Cup defeating many of the Korean powerhouse...

Paired with the news that Square Enix would eventually shut down the PS2 and Xbox 360 versions of Final Fantasy XI, the company also announced it would be partnering with Korean giant Nexon to create a mobile (iOS, Android) version of the l...

On April 20, Black Desert Online’s getting two new classes for you to kick ass with. The male Musa and female Maehwa (because Black Desert’s classes are still gender-locked for some reason) both rely on fast speed and technical...

Conan O'Brien was visiting Korea recently as part of his late night show, and he decided to stop into a gaming cafe (not so much "LAN," as in, "local" cafe these days) while he was there. With the help of a native gamer, he springs his usua...

Nintendo has implemented a large-scale restructuring of its Korean branch, citing layoffs of 80% of its workforce, nearly shuttering the entire operation. 10 of its 50 employees are now remaining, which will relocate to a presumably smaller...

Black Desert Online, the Korean MMO famed for its extravagant character creator, is launching in North America, Oceania, and some European regions on March 3, Daum Games announced today. Until then, prospective players can download the titl...

Blade & Soul is a rare example of a game that managed to completely slip under my radar. Before I saw a few people excited about it yesterday, I had literally never heard of the game. Well, turns out it’s out today. I had to wait...

Bandai Namco had us drive all the way out to San Francisco's Presidio for its latest game announcement this week. That's the National Park at San Francisco's northern tip overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge, which is red, actually. It was al...

Despite there being closed betas for it in Korea since 2013, Pearl Abyss’ Black Desert Online only recently finally made its way to the West, with its first English-language closed beta test. With an appealing action-based combat...

Upcoming Korean MMO Black Desert Online has been making waves for quite a while now. The game is already in closed beta in Korea and Russia, and so the trickle of information coming from it has meant people have been eager for a while now t...