Extraordinary battle armour, complete with moustachioed masks, enlivens this scintillating show, which brilliantly captures the theatrical side of a chivalrous epoch ...

Seattle Art Museum's exhibit Gentleman Warrior: Art of the Samurai features a display of the armor of an 18th-century samurai. Though the function of this military equipment was to protect the vital ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Samurai Warriors 5 is out in a few months, and much like every other game in the series that began in 2004 on the PS2, the trademark action of a lone ...

The samurai belonged to the intellectual elite of Japanese society and practiced creative disciplines like calligraphy and poetry that often contrasted with the violent nature of battle. The warrior ...

: Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts, UAB. Japanese prints of the 1960s and '70s. Some swords can have up to 40,000 layers of folded steel and take months to make, said Wood. "You start out ...

Silk screens, women's firefighting robes and a Darth Vader costume are among the more than 280 unexpected items that are on ...

ou enter the main chamber in the Ann and Graham Gund Gallery at Boston's Museum of Fine Art, and you feel as if you should get ready for war. To your right, a trio of fierce-looking, heavily armored ...

The most obvious change in Samurai Warriors 5 is the game’s art style. A cel-shaded-esque look has been applied, and it mimics Japanese artwork. Expect to see heavy brushstrokes, a wide-ranging color ...

Hailing from sunny (not as much as people think) Italy and long standing gamer since the age of Mattel Intellivision and Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Definitely a multi-platform gamer, he still holds the old ...

Admit it, that new Star Wars trailer got you all fired up. And it’s not just the welcome absence of a leaden Hayden Christensen. It’s the thrill of battle, the romance of the Jedi. Of course, George ...

There are very few arcade fighters with a history as strong as Samurai Showdown. The series was in it's prime about the same time at Street Fighter hit its peak, and was regarded by some as a superior ...