Twenty years later, another female assassin got her own version of a Japanese swordcrafting story, in Amber Noizumi and ...

This week on Forged in Fire the two finalist have to craft a cinquedea, but what is this Italian sword? The cinquedea became popular in renaissance Italy in the 15th and 16th centuries.

Ergo Sum is the first exotic energy sword and can roll with some wild perks ... Still Hunt, which can fire the golden gun super shots when powered up, or the strength of the new prismatic subclass ...

And fire having to be present in order for it to be bent raises questions about the nonviolent uses of firebending we see in the Avatar cartoon, like warming the body in cold environments.

A portable Fire Emblem is long overdue ... The game's final name in Japan translates to "The Sword of the Seal" (as in emblem -- not the animal).

You can contact him at [email protected] In his weekly Famitsu column, Sakurai restated how characters are chosen and his thoughts on the number of Fire Emblem and sword characters.