NieR New Project – Famitsu Staff Interview A couple days ago, Famitsu released the online version of their staff interview with the developers behind the new NieR title. This interview was originally published in Issue No.1385 of Fam...

Takahashi Tetsuya of Monolith Soft, who pushed forward the development of the open-world RPG “Xenoblade X” (read as “Xenoblade Cross”) for the Wii U, has been releasing the names of designers involved in t...

According to Game Jouhou, it seems as though Yoko Taro is hard at work on a new game idea! There is no further news besides this right now, but man…! Let’s have fun speculating what this might be!! Some people are sp...

There are just a couple days left of my Drakengard 3 (from here on referred to as "DOD3") contest for anyone who's interested in participating.  Please note, this is a separate venue from the one Siliconera is offering. This is the third o...

I've made a bunch more blog posts about the recent news regarding Drakengard 3, so for anyone interested in reading my full coverage, please head over to my site on drakengard-3.com! ————————————————————————————————————————————— Here’s a ...

Starting March 6th, separate story DLCs will be released weekly for all six of the sisters.  Firstly, One and Two’s DLC content will be available at the same time with the others following thereafter weekly.  Each story will focus more deep...

According to Dengeki PlayStation Vol. 560, which was just published today (February 13th), we have learned that story DLCs involving all of the Utahime Sisters will soon be released. Although he couldn’t reveal much at this time, in a brie...

What it means to have game developers speak before the media Hello, I am Yoko Taro.  How is everyone doing during these cold days?  Since I just finished a bunch of work, I hopped over to Singapore for a short vacation and am thoroughly e...

I've recently scanned and made English translations of the newest chapter of the Drakengard manga "Shi ni Itaru Aka" or "Red Obtained by Death", Chapter 14, which you can find here: http://drakengard-3.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=57 S...

I was asked to translate the lyrics from “Kuroi Uta”, but since lyricist Kikuchi Hana also wrote this in complete katakana, it’s very difficult to make an exact translation. There are a few reasons why I am okay with this: 1) Like poetry, ...

Here's the 2nd editorial column by creative director Yoko Taro.  Sorry for the delay in translating this article.  I had a bunch of events this weekend that kept me busy.  This was originally posted on drakengard-3.com. _________________...

rologeass on Tumblr has been a great source of DOD information, news, and insight for a long time, and tonight he posted something quite interesting that piqued my interest: the meaning behind the name "Drakengard", the name given to the in...

The 1/23 issue of Famitsu features the first of four editorial columns by creative director Yoko Taro detailing his thought process to creating his unique, best-selling games.  It was just one page in the magazine, but it still took me and ...

One of the items included in the Drag-on Dragoon 10th Anniversary Box was a nice compilation of character themed chapters, one chapter for each significant character (however, the Apostles do not have their own chapters, unfortunately). Mo...

I picked up the CD tonight, the night before its official release--most stores will stock the shelves with items that are due to be released the following day.  Anyway, the song is WONDERFUL!!  If you originally got goosebumps from watching...

The new blog of my rough translation of the latest Famitsu article is up! I'm still making some minor adjustments to this one, but I hope it's starting to look more like a decent blog should look. ^^; I'm still learning how to do certain la...

Yeah, I was bored tonight and just wanted to do something to possibly get more fans interested in the contest that I'm putting together for the Japanese release of Drag-on Dragoon 3, otherwise known as Drakengard 3. Here are some example...

Well, the first day of December has been officially over for roughly 2 hours now…and we’re that much closer to the inevitable release of DOD3 in 18 days!  Now that we’re heading into the final stretch, recent news has not been all that asto...

Yes, Halloween is over.  The decorations have been replaced by…Christmas.  Whatever happened to Thanksgiving in between, I'll never know, but oddly enough, Japan is exactly the same!!  The only difference is that Halloween seems to come and...

Having an evening job does little to help me be a morning person.  Instead, I end up staying up until 4 or 5 in the morning to go back to work by 2pm the following day.  I still get 7-8 hours of sleep, but as car as human contact goes, yeah...

Hopefully I'm starting to translate these articles a little be more quickly as usual. It certainly helps to have an extra hour of free time at work to study it! So, here is the latest article in the double issue of Famitsu for November 7 & ...

Famitsu just published a new article online, talking about the four types of weapons Zero can use as well as a special interview with producer Shiba Takamasa, sound director Okabe Keiichi, and theme song vocalist Onitsuka Chihiro!  Here is ...

Hey, everybody.  It's been a long time since I posted anything here, and it's been even longer since I've really felt excited about the release of a certain game.  So here's a brief look at game I'm especially looking forward to playing nex...

Not too long ago we had a couple extra days off from work and I found myself bored, stuck at home with nothing to do. So I went on PSN to see if there might be any interesting RPGs that I could download a trial version. I got two games...

So, I am due to move out of my apartment tomorrow, have everything packed up by the end of today and what do I do? Play games. Perfect. I don't know what time I started playing Xenoblade again last night; it must have been around 9:00 o...

Since I live in Japan, Xenoblade was on my top priorities of things to do when it came out last year. Unfortunately, life happened and left me with a crippled heart and (gasp!) no Wii! I had to purchase my own Wii to even begin playing th...