May Contain Suggestive Themes; Censorship in Japan

May Contain Suggestive Themes; Censorship in Japan

Oct 21, 2010

Censorship and video games have always shared an uneasy relationship. By and large, the industry has successfully  self-regulated, with a few notable exceptions. Any controversy relating to graphic violence or sexually explicit content has been generated by fabricated moral outrage through mainstream media. Japan, on the other hand, still suffers from a more...

The Art of Motion

As Sony and Microsoft scramble to release their motion controllers, it’s becoming clear that both are trying to build upon Nintendo’s original offering, take it further and expanding their respective customer bases. I was recently discussing the whole Natal ‘revolution’ with someone who is associated with the technology’s history. He was...