In the Cards: A Review of Ascension for iPhone and iPad

A classic card game comes in Apple flavor. Is it worth your hard-earned dough?

Things They Never Tell You About Video Game QA

M pontificates on the secrets of Quality Assurance testing for video games.

Have Yourself an Animated Christmas: Unsung Classics of Christmas Anime

As the days count down to Christmas, get yourself in the mood – or, at least, *a* mood – with these little-known gems of anime Christmas.

Anime Industry Reality Check: Translation Troubles

What can be better than a word-perfect translation of an anime or manga? Turns out quite a lot.

Animated Horrors: M’s Picks for Top 5 Creepy Anime

What are your favorite scary, creepy or horrific anime titles?

Fair Terms and a Villain’s Mind: Review of Manga Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice

Shakespeare’s epic tale of love and torment. Pretty bishonen elves. Two great tastes that… don’t necessarily go great together?

Fanservice, the Card Game: Review of Tanto Cuore

Moe and maids makes for an explosive and appealing combination. They also make for a surprisingly deep and engaging card game.

PAX Geekalis: A Rundown of PAX 2011

m returns from PAX 2011 loaded with swag and stories to give us the rundown on everyone’s favorite gaming convention

Playable Anime: Review of Catherine

From the minds of Atlus comes one of the most thought-provoking psychological horror anime in the past year… except that it’s actually a video game.

A Not-So-Final Fantasy: The Distant Worlds Concert Series

The famous series of Final Fantasy concerts gets the M treatment. Are they worth your time and money?