TOKYO — What’s the best way to keep up your strength while walking all over Tokyo shopping for videogames? Eating curry, of course. Duh. We had a pretty big hit here in Japan last year wi...

TOKYO — Here’s Go Go Curry’s most famous (or is that infamous?) dish. Curry fans can disagree on what toppings are the best: Pork cutlet, or chicken? Skip the meat entirely and go f...

TOKYO — Here’s a game in which you fend off ninjas with a boxing glove at the end of a stick. Wait, what? Students at Nihon Kogakuin College have made a game called Don’t Lose the ...

OSAKA — It’s entirely forgivable if you’ve never heard of Umihara Kawase before. This cult classic Japanese action game is a bit like Bionic Commando, only your character is a littl...

OSAKA — The Samurai Shodown series was one of SNK’s biggest successes back in the 1990s, adding medieval weapons to the crowded 2-D fighting genre with a cast of characters rooted in Japan...

OSAKA — There weren’t many Western games on display at Games Japan Festa this year, and of those that were, nearly all had already been released in the United States. A notable exception w...