About Andriasang.com

Andriasang.com is a video game news site and database focused on Japanese games and the Japanese market. Started in 2008 by then IGN.com Japanese correspondent Anoop Gantayat, the site is known for its quick, accurate and thorough coverage of gaming news emerging from Japan, and is widely sourced on top gaming sites like Gamasutra, IGN.com, Joystiq, Destructoid and Gamespot and on top gaming communities like NeoGAF. The site also has a large, bilingual Japanese and English games database.

You may want to check out:

  • Content archive: We have over 14,000 articles and galleries covering all major (and minor) developments in the Japanese games industry. Search the archive here.
  • Database: Our database has over 25,000 games, people, companies, goods and other items. You can use this as a schedule of upcoming releases ( see here) or to keep up with the latest releases (see here). To browse in Japanese, click the "日本語" link in the upper right of the page.

Advertise on Andriasang.com

Andriasang.com gets 300,000 unique visitors every month. Our most popular territory is the United States, with 60% of all monthly visits, but we also get high traffic from Canada and Europe. Our readers come to the site for news on games like Final Fantasy, Metal Gear, Tales and Dragon Quest, but are interested in all gaming categories, along with other categories like anime, figures, and collectibles.

We use BuySellAds for our advertising. By going through BuySellAds, you can purchase ads at your preferred location at low fixed monthly pricing or CPM (cost per thousand pageviews) rates. Visit our page at BuySellAds for further details. For special requests, contact us via the contact form on this page, or at this e-mail address: ads@andriasang.com.

What We Run On

This site uses a custom publishing system built in PHP and Javascript. Here's some of the technology that we use:

PHP & Zend Framework
We use the full Zend Framework MVC with heavy use of Zend Cache.
Javascript & Mootools
We use Mootools for all our Javascript development. Our entire admin system is built in Mootools/Javascript, as is the growing library of javascript widgets that you see around the site.
Ngnix & PHP-PFM
For our web server, we use Ngnix (pronounced "Engine X") with PHP-FPM.
Solr
For our search engine, we use Solr. Whenever you search for something on this site, it does queries through Solr. This includes our inline search tool (you can highlight the body text in a story to bring up a search window for further reading -- try it out on Hideo Kojima). Our release chart and database search are also handled through Solr.

Contact Andriasang.com's Editors

Use this form to contact us with any questions, requests or concerns:

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