Having worked as a writer, filmmaker and musician, Tess Smith has experience across much of the entertainment industry. As a lifelong gamer, first discovering the wonder of RPGs on her Gameboy Advance ...

Akira Nishitani recently started a Twitter account, though instead of heavily-filtered brunch photos and duck-faced mirror portraits, the Street Fighter 2 director has been doling out little-known ...

In the mid-‘90s, Akira Nishitani recorded some footage on a tape, went to meet with Capcom and hoped for the best. The young game designer had just left Capcom to start his own studio, and he was ...

Japanese author Aya Nishitani — most well-known for writing Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei, the first of a trilogy of novels that the whole Megami Tensei series from Atlus spawned from — has ...

Nishitani Homare is a yakuza family head in the prequel game, Yakuza 0. He deals a lot with Majima Goro and is part of the reason that Majima turns into a wildman; the 'Mad Dog' as he is eventually ...

I've always felt there are basically two kinds of philosophers: those who begin in wonder and those who begin in despair. Though the philosopher Keiji Nishitani (1900-90) was arguably the latter kind, ...