Patlabor was originally released in 1988 as a manga, with a number of anime series and feature length films giving new interpretations of the long running series. With a bevy of pieces of merchandise ...

I’ve got a $1 million Amazon gift card left over from the holidays, so I’m going to buy this Japanese mech suit that I can either hop inside or control from afar. If you’ve got cyberpunk dreams, ...

in advance of its upcoming launch. You’re given two weapons to dispatch of the relentless robotic foe that hunts down your mech: shooting, and a short-range bat. Shooting is front-facing only, and ...

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iZ0WuNvHr8&feature=player_embedded#!] The Kuratas Mecha robot is an art/aspirational nerd project by Suidobashi Heavy ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Japan sold a fully-functional robot suit that doesn't just resemble a combat mech from a video game, it was able to actually fight like one ...

I was entirely unprepared to meet From Software’s Masanori Takeuchi. When I arrived at Devolver Digital’s Gamescom booth to see Metal Wolf Chaos - the 14-year old, Japan-only Xbox mech game about a ...

The game combines turn-based and real-time action with plenty of firepower. Dual Gear is a new game from five man Thai developer Orbital Speed Studio that’s inspired by classic Japanese turn based ...

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Remember Vaudeville, that imposing 12-foot-tall, Microsoft-Kinect-controlled mech that was supposed to bear nothing scarier than a mop? Well, Suidobashi Heavy Industry — the Japanese hobbyist ...