Persona 4: The Animation – “You’re Myself, I’m Yourself”

Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4, was the last game I purchased for the PlayStation2 (I even pre-ordered it), it’s the focus of a chapter in my thesis, and it, perhaps more than Persona 3 (another game I particularly enjoyed), made me very interested in not only other games in the SMT franchise, but in Atlus as a game [...]

SCMS 2011: Panels, Tweets, and Challenges

A full disclaimer: I developed a grunge between Friday night and Saturday morning while at SCMS. This is by no means the conference’s fault (I chalk it up me always becoming ill in hotels and a significant amount more exercise than I’m used to (and by ‘exercise’ I mean ‘walking around with and carrying my [...]

American History in Graphic Adventure Form

In September, a new video game will launch called Mission US. Produced by THIRTEEN with funding from Public Broadcasting and the NEH, Mission US is intended for school children to engage in lessons of American history through a computer game, taking on the roles of various young people on the edges of major events in [...]

The Big 3 of E3: Labels, Nostalgia, and Keeping Up

E3 2010 has  finished, with the mass convergence of gamers and (more realistically) the gaming press left to go about their lives, debating who has the best press conference (IGN readers are voting with a pie chart), which games are the most new and exciting, and which games they cannot wait to buy and play, [...]

Anime is probably not the next big thing

A guest blogger over at Thompson on Hollywood argues that the development slate in Hollywood indicates that live action anime adaptations will be the next thing to spur box office moola. Never mind that the writer originally thought that the American-conceived and written Avatar: The Last Airbender was a Japanese series (hence the strikethrough in the article) [...]