After news has spread that beloved American actor and comedian Robin Williams was passed away, Legend of Zelda (ゼルダの伝説) fans went into action and started off a Change.org petition that requested having an non-playable character named Robin after the actor. Williams, who was a huge fan of the Legend of Zelda, named his daughter with former wife Marsha Garces, Zelda Rae Williams after Princess Zelda (ゼルダ姫). Father and daughter appeared in a commercial for the Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D (ゼルダの伝説 時のオカリナ 3D). Keep Reading

The official Youtube channel of Flipnote Studio 3D (うごくメモ帳 3D) has announced on August 6 via a short clip that the release of the latest installment of the Yoshi game series, Yoshi’s New Island (ヨッシー New アイランド), will be celebrated with an animation contest. The clip, which runs for a quick 36 seconds, shows T. Yoshisaur Munchakoopas (lovingly known as Yoshi (ヨッシー)) and baby Mario (マリオ) in their hand-drawn style glory walking and in Yoshi’s case, eating the enormous Yoshi’s New Island 3DS game and spitting out the announcement. Keep Reading

The biggest MMORPG to have ever swept the world, Dragon Nest, is celebrating it’s 3rd anniversary in South East Asia and there’s no other celebration as big as this! Dragon Nest SEA is hosting a 3-month long event that started on August 1 and will end on September 9 with a variety of different events catered especially for every die hard DN player!

The first birthday event under the 3rd anniversary celebration banner is the Tag and Share the Joy on Facebook event. Keep Reading

Vocaloid (ボーカロイド) sensation Hatsune Miku (初音ミク) is indeed everywhere and that includes the pharmaceutical industry! Japanese pharmaceutical company, Rohto, (ロート製薬株式会社) has teamed up with Crypton Future Media (クリプトン・フューチャー・メディア株式会社) to give you Digi-Eye (ロート デジアイ), Rohto’s brand new line of eye care product featuring none other than the Vocaloid princess herself! Digi-Eye is an eye drop specially formulated to protect the windows to your soul from “blue light”. Some sources of blue light are computer monitors and even your mobile phone screens so if you spend too much time on either of these two devices, then it’s time for you to grab some Digi-Eye! Keep Reading