Purple Monkey Ninja’s choice: GTA Chinatown Wars

Nintendo had a strong final quarter this year, with Bowser’s Inside Story and Zelda: Spirit Tracks, but Rockstar get the nod from me for bringing the scale and obsessive compulsive completist nature of GTA to DS with an added injection of the more frenzied chaos of the first two games, and the addictive Dope Wars elements.

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Language and culture have become one of Japan’s biggest exports over the past 10 or 15 years. The popularity of Anime, Manga, and video games has given rise to an entire sub-culture in the west, a group very keen to learn about all things Japanese. With that in mind, I’d like to introduce a few DS games that might help with Japanese language study. Keep in mind that while there are a ton of study games on the market, the vast majority are targeted at native Japanese speakers who want to brush up on their own language skills. Read the rest of this entry »