Well my friends, the summer rush has arrived. I’m not even kidding on that as the current list only covers the last two weeks or so of new releases and doesn’t even begin to cover what will be launched over the next few days and weeks. So, there will most likely be another New Releases […]
Hello all! This year, VNs Now will be giving you our own analysis and grades on the press conferences at E3. If you want more instant reaction about the biggest gaming convention of the year, then follow me on Twitter as I’ll be making liberal use of the space for a few rants. With all […]
Well my friends, I hope you are well. We’re starting to pick back up into regularly releases now that we’re in between game jams, so let’s take full advantage and see what the VN realm has in store for us starting with one Michaela Laws. Ms. Laws and her group have been very busy since […]
Ah Otome, we meet again. I mention this everytime I cover an otome game, but new readers don’t know of the old dust-ups otome fans and I got into when this site first started. That’s right: that is where it all started for VNs Now. So whenever we do discuss otome again, it’s always a […]
Well we’ve reached the end of April! And while I didn’t expect anything Earth-shattering to happen this month due to NaNoRenO wrapping up, the times we live in managed to surprise me. We have quite a few titles to go through, including one that has been awaited by fans of a certain gaming site for […]
One of the rare pleasures that can come for any critic is to see a piece of media overcome preconceptions and become more than the sum of its parts. It occurs more in mainstream gaming because genres bleed over far more: especially in First Person Shooters which is still gaming’s bread and butter. So when […]
Just to be fair to everyone, the following review discusses several themes in Atom Grrrl that can be offensive to some readers; including racial slurs, graphically described violence, sexual assault and other unsettling material. I talk about all of this with examples so please keep that in mind. Have you ever read or watched a […]
Ghost in the Shell is, without a doubt, one of the icons of modern animation. Any conversation about influential anime in the West that doesn’t include the franchise (along with Akira, Cowboy Bebop and Gundam) isn’t a real conversation. The series is a mixture of philosophy and action that has yet to be competently replicated in […]
I’m always interested whenever someone attempts to portray humanity in a realistic way. We like to romanticize our behavior and attitudes to one another in order to promote the ideal of decency. And while that’s not always who we are, portraying humanity any other way risks alienating the audience. It’s a fine line to walk […]
This match is, on paper, straight forward. One is a demonic being desperate to stave off impeding hunger and the other is someone’s Shih Tzu (I think it’s a Shih Tzu anyway) explaining the American tax code. Something tells me we’ll be done with this one pretty quickly. NaNo VNs all set? Ready? GO! […]