Brian Ashcraft

Osaka-based author Brian Ashcraft is well-known for his witty and insightful daily posts on Kotaku, one of the net's biggest gaming blogs, and in Arcade Mania! he brings together his extensive knowledge of the Japanese arcade scene in book form for the first time. As well as working as a Kotaku editor, he is a contributing editor for Wired magazine, and his writing has appeared in Popular Science, Metropolis magazine, and The Japan Times.