From Mudokon Pops to Megaton, there is something undeniably fascinating about Japan's adaptation of Western video games.

Enemies no longer show up on your compass. Perhaps most punishing of all: You can only save your game by going to sleep at a ...

This should be the point in some Fallout New Vegas stealthing that you realise it's brown trousers time. It isn't, because ...

Modders have tended to focus on first-person animations, both because it's the more popular view and the easiest to tweak.

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