In Real Life

The Horrible Family Secret Of Japan’s Anime Envoy

Taro Aso was a shit prime minister, but in incidental things that count—shooting guns, collecting comics, and booze— Taro Aso excels. This week, he was named Japan’s official anime envoy to China.


December 11, 2010

The Ugly Fantasies Of Revenge

Beyond Holocaust museums, Holocaust documentaries, and Holocaust action movies we now have the Holocaust first-person shooter. This is our chance to virtually be an escaped Jewish prisoner of Auschwitz, heavily armed, with hundreds of Nazis in our sights. Catharsis?


September 28, 2010
News

One Way To Save World War II Video Games

The cry goes out: Another World War II video game? Writer Rob Zacny argues that the war is not the problem. The tired perspective is.


December 31, 2009
News

Try On Gaijin’s Wings Of Prey

Gaijin Entertainment let fly its new World War II combat flight sim Wings of Prey on Christmas Day, and now there’s a downloadable demo for those of you pondering dusting off the old flight stick.


September 5, 2009

Order Of War Preview: Almost Everything Is In Order

Please forgive the author as her headline-writing guy seems to be out of the office at the moment, along with the chick who comes up with puns.


September 3, 2009
News

Square Issues Order Of War This Month

Square Enix releases their first Western-developed game outside of Japan this month, bringing Wargaming.net’s World War II strategy title Order of War to North American PCs on September 22.


April 17, 2009
News

Square Enix Finally Gets A World War II Game

Square Enix joins forces with real-time strategy specialists Wargaming.net to publish Order of War, a strategy title that takes place during everyone’s favourite international conflict, World War II.


January 20, 2009

Battlestations: Pacific Blows (Up) My Mind

I blow up a ship and I win, I blow up a ship and I lose. What the hell is going on here?


January 16, 2009
March 15, 2008
News

Holocaust Survivor Criticises WWII Game

British game developer Luc Bernard is under fire from a Holocaust survivor for his newest game in the works, Imagination is the Only Escape. Survivor Jack Kagan of Belarus said that he was outraged at the idea of the game, that the Holocaust is a very serious subject for all of humanity, and no one should make a game like this one. Bernard responded that the game was meant to educate people, particularly children, about the events of the Holocaust. Kagan wouldn’t buy it, though, and said that people should be educated about the Holocaust by watching and reading things instead. After all of this back and forth, there isn’t even confirmation yet that Imagination is the Only Escape will actually be released anywhere. Nintendo so far has said there are no plans to release the game in North America, and Nintendo Europe says it is “not yet been contacted by developer Luc Bernard regarding the release”.