With all of the next and new-gen filling up our entertainment centers, it can be really easy to forget about the PS2, even if some of the greatest games to ever grace the system have been coming out lately.

Another gem was just recently released in the form of Persona 3 (or "Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3" if you like long titles). I didn't see this game getting very much attention either before or after its release (despite some very good reviews), so I thought I'd do my own small part… Continue

(* Note: This was originally going to be a post in the Japan Group's forum, but the post ended up (I'm assuming) being to long, causing the forum to fall down go boom when I tried submitting it. I figured I'd just toss it up as a blog post instead.)

Peter Petrelli's post on Japanese Pod 101 kinda inspired me to make this post. I've been studying Japanese for a while now and have used nearly every self-study resource out there. One of the hardest things about learning

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While not being directly related to video games (although there have been more than a few Middle-earth themed games over the years, particularly since the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy), I think the release of the book The Children of Hurin by JRR Tolkien is very much worth mentioning, especially since there are a lot more Tolkien fans around now than there were prior to the films and (newer) games.

While a lot of people saw the movies and were content, quite a few took an i

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(*note: I typed this up in notepad and came to the community to add it...and saw that Scot beat me to a review! Since I rarely ever update, I figured I'd toss it up anyway. Sorry for the redundant content. =3 )

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