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 ...

Mecha, the giant robots or machines controlled by people, have been a staple of popular Japanese entertainment for decades. Fans of Japanese manga, anime, and mecha-themed video games probably ...

While most mecha shows treat robots as Weapons, Snowball Earth treats them as friends in the most literal sense. The story follows Tetsuo, a shy boy who communicates best with a colossal robot he ...

Have you ever wondered what Armored Core 6 would be like if it was even sillier? Or maybe you've got bored with Gundam and what you really want is a stack of severed doll heads on tank tracks instead ...

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 ...

There's definitely been a surge in great mech games recently, but here's a newcomer that has just piqued my interest. It takes the turn-based mech action of Into The Breach, gives it the simultaneous ...

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 ...

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 ...

Remixing the genre that Gundam built, Macross is still a unique, eclectic Real Robot anime franchise that influenced ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. Back in 2016, Level-5 revealed Megaton Musashi, a new mecha themed ...