At SGF 2026, I tried out a game with visuals ripped straight from Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball and classic '80s anime.

Thanks to modern technology, anime games can easily look like the anime series they are based on. It was hard to convey that with pixelated sprites during the 8-bit and 16-bit eras, but each new 3D ...

The influence of Japanese media on Western gaming is immense, as most companies that emerged in the 1980s and ‘90s were Japanese. Still, Western games leaned in a slightly different direction and have ...

Skeith has been a gamer for over two decades now and has decided to take pen to paper for Hardcore Gamer. Capable of playing games at incredible speeds, you can rely on them to write about them in ...

Sometimes, when a video game does very well, it receives an anime spinoff. The most famous example of this is the Pokémon franchise, which began as a video game before turning into a worldwide anime ...

For me, half the fun of a good MMORPG is the ability to move between adventuring and relaxing. I love to fish just as much as I love to bash monsters, and, thankfully, Blue Protocol: Star Resonance ...

Anime is a medium full of unforgettable stories and quirky concepts. It’s no surprise, then, that numerous video game adaptations of anime series like One Piece, My Hero Academia, and Dragon Ball have ...

Anime would seem like fertile ground for grand strategy. The epic space battles of Mobile Suit Gundam could be straight out of Stellaris. The mixture of political intrigue and battleground struggle ...