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. You can browse by date and topic.
- Database: Our database has over 25,000 games, people, companies, goods and other items. You can use this as a schedule of upcoming releases or to view the most recent releases.
- Image Archive: We have a growing collection of screenshots and artwork. Browse by date and keyword here).
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.
For advertising inquiries, use the site contact form below or e-mail us at ads@andriasang.com.
This site uses a custom publishing system built in PHP and Javascript. Here's some of the technology that we use:
- PHP & Zend Framework
- For our PHP development framework, we use the full Zend Framework.
- Javascript & Mootools
- We use Mootools for all our Javascript development. Our entire admin system is built in Mootools/Javascript.
- Ngnix & PHP-PFM
- For our web server, we use Ngnix with PHP-FPM.
- Bootstrap
- We use Twitter Bootstrap as our CSS framework.
- Solr
- For our searching and indexing, we use Solr 4. You can conduct inline searches by highlighting terms, or you can access the the full search engine here.
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