[floatr][/floatr]The Age: Why Japan makes the world's best games
Screen Play has been lucky enough to visit Japan many times, and despite memories of some truly frightening food and the world's craziest TV commercials, one thing always resonates: thank God for the Japanese. "Japanese people have an insatiable appetite for anything new, liking very new technology and new approaches to games," says Masaya Matsuura, creator of Parappa the Rapper. Ultimately we are all beneficiaries...If there weren't Japanese developers around to push the industry forward, we all might drown in a sea of FIFA updates, GTA clones and first-person shooters...more...