From high tech trains and science museums to arcades and Akihabara, Tokyo is a nerd haven. One of the most prominent ways geekery manifests itself in Japan’s capital city though, surprisingly, is in food. During my trip to the Kanto region this summer during Japan’s Obon holiday, I visited an […]
Pikachu Invades Yokohama for City-Wide Pokémon Event
Trainer Amy here, reporting from Yokohama on the recent massive Pikachu outbreak in the Japanese port city. Trainer Jaime, a veteran trainer and photographer, predicted the outbreak and was on scene. “It was like I had stepped into a different dimension,” she said. “The experience was, quite simply, shocking.” The situation […]
Nintendo E3 Conference Highlights
Nintendo was going in as the underdogs of E3. Constant articles saying how Nintendo is doomed, the Wii U fails, Mario Kart 8 won’t save them etc. But they came in swinging, literally. This has to be the best opening to E3 I have seen in the last 10 years. […]
Showing Off My #GeekSpace
Molly over at The Princess and the Geek issued a fun little challenge to geeks everywhere: show off your geek space. It can be a bookshelf, your bedroom, your office, your theater room, or even that cupboard under your staircase where you keep your unruly nephew. Whatever space you consider […]
Google’s April Fools Day Prank Populates Google Maps With 150 Pokemon & Here’s How to Find Them
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YMD6xELI_k] That’s it, folks. Pack it up. Google has one April Fool’s Day 2014. Everyone else can go home. Your efforts are appreciated but unnecessary. This is what I will be doing for the rest of today and tomorrow until the ‘challenge’ ends on April 2nd. So, basically, Google has decided […]
A First Glance at Pokémon X and Y
If you own a 3DS and you have not purchased either Pokémon X or Pokémon Y, you need to ask yourself one question: Is what you are doing right now (besides reading this article) more important than playing Pokémon? Don’t answer that. My Espurr already knows the answer, and it’s […]
My Obsession With Vivillon and All It's Forms
It has been a shockingly long time since I have played a Pokemon game. The last generation I played and enjoyed was the original second one. To this day I still hold that Crystal was the best Pokemon game ever because after that one no Pokemon game ever really seemed […]
Nintendo Direct E3 Broadcast Unleashes Slew of Familiar Titles
Welcome back, Nintendo. It’s been a while. Antigravity Mario Kart, Cat Mario, and Mega Man in Smash Bros. were just a few of the many features in new titles announced by Nintendo this morning during its Nintendo Direct broadcast. The company is taking a new approach to E3 this year […]
The Future of Nintendo: Just a Slump or Worthy of Concern?
Since the launch of the 3DS and Wii U, Nintendo has struggled to retain its hold on game market dominance, previously made possible by its massively popular Wii and DS systems. The last thing the company’s floundering sales needed was the recent $30.2 million patent infringement lawsuit on the glasses-free […]
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