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Steven L. Kent
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Nov 13, 2003
Come to Disney, go to Mars
Mission: Space, a new ride/space flight simulator at Epcot Center, part of the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida, takes Disney guests in a whole new direction -- straight up into space.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Oct 30, 2003
N-Gage fails to engage
It's no use beating around the bush, N-Gage, the new hand-held cellular telephone/video game system hybrid from Nokia, is quite probably the worst game system in video game history -- and that's counting such notable disasters as the Nintendo Virtual Boy and the Bandai Pipin.
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Oct 9, 2003
TV icons hit the road
What do you get when you cross America's favorite dysfunctional family with the video game "Grand Theft Auto III"? You get "The Simpsons: Hit & Run," a new game from Vivendi Universal Games for Xbox.
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Sep 25, 2003
Worth fighting for
Most "greatest hits" games are too familiar. They were great when they came out last Christmas and everybody bought them, but now they're simply old.
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Sep 11, 2003
Let's roll -- at 800 kph
If there was ever a litmus test for hardcore gamers, "F-Zero GX" (F-Zero), a new antigravity racing game by Nintendo for the GameCube, is that test.
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Aug 28, 2003
A horror smorgasbord
With monsters in the hallways, blood on the wall and gross-outs lurking behind every corner, "Silent Hill 3" is an all-out assault on the player's sensibilities.
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Aug 7, 2003
Lessons in rage control
"Hulk," a game that is ever so loosely based on the new Universal Studios movie, has an element missing from most superhero action games -- fun.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Jul 24, 2003
The pirate planner
It does not take money to make money, at least not when you're a pirate. In "Tropico 2: Pirate Cove," a new game for PCs from Take 2, you can gin up money from thin air. That is if you have a mighty ship and a blood-thirsty crew.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Jul 10, 2003
Dracula's open house
When you think of James Bond movies, gadgets and martinis come to mind. When you go to a "Matrix" movie, you expect a mixture of multiple realities and dark glasses. When video game players hear the name "Castlevania," they expect a castle, armies of ghouls and a hero with a whip.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Jun 19, 2003
Choose your weapons
"Soul Calibur 2," Namco's new fighting game for GameCube, Xbox and PlayStation2, has little new to recommend it. Thank goodness for that.
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Jun 5, 2003
Back on the fast track
Sega's Sonic The Hedgehog, the video-gaming world's fastest little blue rodent in tennis shoes, has returned in style. After a string of games that have ranged from old hat to downright disappointing, "Sonic Advance 2" -- a new game created by Sega for Game Boy Advance -- serves as a good reminder of...
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
May 22, 2003
EA scores big time with 'MVP Baseball'
Who knows what burr got under Electronic Arts' saddle, but the biggest name in sports games is really sharpening its act. The publisher of such megahits as "John Madden NFL Football" and "FIFA Soccer," EA has always kind of stunk at baseball. Not anymore.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
May 8, 2003
Sony's own silver lining
With all of the big games that have come out lately, it's hard to keep up.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Apr 17, 2003
Pokemon still Nintendo gems
Having sold a combined 4 million copies of the games in Japanese, Nintendo has finally made English versions of "Pokemon Ruby" and "Pokemon Sapphire," the latest entries in the ongoing Pokemon craze.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Apr 3, 2003
Indy Jones excavates action
"Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb," LucasArts' new game for Xbox, PC and PlayStation2, marks the triumphant return of the world's most famous adventurer/archaeologist.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Mar 20, 2003
That's pride messing with you
I once attended a Mike Tyson fight. If you think his fights are vicious on television, you shouldn't see them in person. Tyson hit the other guy so hard that we could feel it in the bleachers.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Mar 6, 2003
The mayor's conundrum
"SimCity 4," a new and entertaining city-planning simulation for PC from the Maxis division of Electronic Arts, is a nightmare, and I mean that in the best possible way.
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Feb 20, 2003
Nokia fails to N-Gage Japan
Nokia's N-Gage mobile telephone/video game system, unveiled earlier this month, plays better than GameBoy Advance-quality games and has a built-in cellular telephone. So why aren't Nintendo executives shaking in their boots?
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Feb 6, 2003
Gimme that old-time religion
Koei has recreated warfare in the time of the hegemon Nobunaga, and Taito has been making Samurai games since the early 1980s. Over the last two decades game players have relived the naval battles of World War II and the dogfights of World War I.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Jan 30, 2003
Haven't I seen you somewhere?
Clones -- identical creatures built from the same DNA.
U.S. aircraft carrier returns to Japan carrying navy’s ‘most capable fighter’
U.S. 7th Fleet Commander Vice Adm. Fred Kacher speaks to reporters shortly after the arrival of aircraft carrier USS George Washington at Yokosuka naval base in Kanagawa Prefecture on Friday.
After Shohei Ohtani bump, Iwate ironware maker sees brighter future
Kaito Kikuchi's decision to send superstar Shohei Ohtani one of his company's traditional ironware tea kettles has paid off with a surge of interest from general consumers.
Japan approves ¥21.9 trillion stimulus plan
The policy chiefs of the Democratic Party for the People, Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito — Makoto Hamaguchi (left), Itsunori Onodera (center) and Mitsunari Okamoto — shake hands after reaching an agreement on an economic stimulus package on Wednesday.
Woman dies after train collides with car in Tochigi
A Moka Railway train car
133-year-old Kyushu railway station remains to be partially preserved
The remains of the original Moji Station in Kitakyushu
After Shohei Ohtani bump, Iwate ironware maker sees brighter future
Kaito Kikuchi's decision to send superstar Shohei Ohtani one of his company's traditional ironware tea kettles has paid off with a surge of interest from general consumers.
Shohei Ohtani wins National League MVP award
Shohei Ohtani celebrates after hitting a three-run home run against the Padres during the National League Division Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles last month.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Around a quarter of Japan married couples in their 20s met through dating apps
A survey released by an organization promoting “Good Couples Day” shows that 24% of couples in their 20s met their marriage partner through a dating app.

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