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  • Heavenstrike Rivals

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    This is a new free-to-play tactics game on iOS from Square Enix, and I was interested in giving it a shot based on the screenshots I saw. The gameplay reminds me a lot of Hero Academy, another iOS tactics game I quite liked, but it still manages to feel like its own game. I especially…

  • Dragon Quest

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    Last night I was re-watching the Dragon Quest episode of AmeTalk (which originally aired late last year) and although it was fun, it made me realize how DQ illiterate I really am – I’ve only played 4 (the updated version with 3D graphics that was released on the DS), 8, and 9. Since these games…

  • Miki Saito

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    I’m so happy to see artist Miki Saito getting a lot of attention these days. The best thing about hosting PauseTalk all these years was that it gave me the chance to meet so many interesting and creative people, and Miki was one of those people. She was a regular attendee since returning to Japan.…

  • Justin Epperson

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    Wanna get a street level view of Tokyo and its surroundings? My friend Justin Epperson is someone I’ve known for quite a few years, but it wasn’t for photography. He’s worked many years for the excellent Tokyo-based game localization company 8-4, and he was always the one who was nice enough to invite me to…

  • A Creative Tokyo Canvas

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    Canvas gives a permanent and accessible digital database to Tokyo’s creative community. It’s something that was often brought up at PauseTalk over the years, this idea of building a proper database for all of the interesting creatives who would attend the events, which would then make it easier for everyone to reconnect, or just to…

  • Domain Dance Redux

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    The domain dance is not quite done yet, but things are mostly working. As I wrote the other day, I decided to transfer my domains from GoDaddy to Name.com, and I’m pretty happy with what I see of the interface of Name.com, and how easy it is to set up things (like MX records to…

  • Doing the Domain Dance

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    More than anything else, this is just a notice that if this site should suddenly disappear, don’t worry, it’s not a repetition of the great site death of 2014.  I’ve used GoDaddy to register my domains for probably close to 10 years. The reason I went to them was because I came very close to…

  • Let’s Nihongo

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    I’m studying Japanese. Huh? Didn’t you just leave Japan? Yup, but you know what, I’ve come to a lot of realizations since leaving just over 4 months ago, and one of them is that I want to (and in fact, need to) always stay connected with that country, whether I’m physically there or not. Considering…