Crave freelancer Tim Hornyak is the author of "Loving the Machine: The Art and Science of Japanese Robots." He has been writing about Japanese culture and technology for a decade. E-mail Tim.

Custom Mech Wars will have an extensive free-form robot creation system, and D3 Publisher showed how it will work at Tokyo Game Show 2023. The game’s producer Yosuke Uchida was present at D3 Publisher ...

The Big-O is a unique case among anime and the mecha genre. Big action-packed fights are not the story’s focus, there are no young teens dealing with high school drama, and you won’t find any ...

Japan's giant human-piloted, humanoid Gundam-style robots are neat and everything, but … why walk if you can roll on four wheels? That's what the Archax does, transforming between robot and vehicle ...

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos got to live out every 6-year-old's fantasy when he got behind the controls of a giant "mech" robot. The Verge reports that Bezos tried out the 13-foot-tall (4 meters) robot ...

Mecha shows like "Neon Genesis Evangelion" and "Mobile Suit Gundam" have helped popularize the present robot games. Fighting your opponents with your laser or gun-equipped robot is a common scenario ...

One of my formative experiences with anime (and television as a whole) occurred while watching “Mobile Suit Gundam 00.” It’s a show containing many themes: energy crises, religious and ethnic ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Robot Fury: Mech Combat Simulator Robot Fury is a mech combat simulator where you can feel like a true robot warrior. Fight enemies with a powerful ...