In July 1999, Japanese broadcaster NHK BS2 aired the first episode of its new  Network Jungle III  documentary series .  Each installment ex...

In early 1999, to mark the upcoming release of Shenhua's Theme as a CD single, Japan's Dreamcast Magazine featured this interview wi...

This post is a translation of a report in the May 1999 edition of the Japanese Dreamcast Magazine about the Network Jungle II: Digitaliland ...

Every month Phantom River Stone holds a poll among our patrons to choose a topic for the blog in the coming month. After tallying the votes ...

Digitaliland event flyer, with screenshots from the software demo. Image credit: James Brown In an earlier post we covered the extravag...

Coming into 1999, the excitement around the upcoming release of Shenmue was growing ever stronger. The game had been gathering widespre...

Every month Phantom River Stone holds a poll among our patrons to choose a topic for the blog in the coming month. After tallying the votes ...

One of the items received by Shenmue fans attending one the Premiere events held in Japan back in late 1998 / early 1999 (around a year pri...

Shenmue was featured at "Network Jungle II: Digitaliland," an expo for games making use of networking and digital communications h...