Last week, I reported on a visual novel called Rape Day that was listed and nearing release on Steam. The title heavily features and promotes itself on sexual violence and the exploitation of female characters. You can read the full story here, but there have been some developments since we last spoke that I feel […]
“How do you stop a man who can turn a nation into a graveyard?” After such success in the recent release of Far Cry 5, many fans are looking back at the older games as Far Cry 2 turns 10. Over the years, the series has managed to build a big community with many gamers […]
Well, after a disappointing adventure at my local airport where I was denied from seeing Takeover: Brooklyn IV live, followed promptly by a head cold that I’m just now getting over, it’s only fair that I come back to a community not exactly in turmoil, but far from the tranquil facade it likes to put […]
There is no pleasant way to talk about what we’re going to talk about today, but it is an important conversation that, per usual, isn’t getting talk about the right way on either side of the debate. We’re going to attempt that here, but that includes a very frank discussion about suicide and self-harm. If […]
If you’ve missed our coverage on the ongoing issue with Valve Corporation, the edit requests sent to certain visual novels and other issues with Steam, you can read and listen to those features here and you can read the Steam blog post as well: Rant #2: Cancelling the Anime Titty Apocalypse? Valve and “Sexy” VNs: […]
It has been a busy weekend in the visual novel world. If you’ve been following along, the narrative goes something like this. Valve, pressured by extreme conservative factions, have begun to target visual novels because some of them are too sexy. The push back on this Waifu/Anime Titty Holocaust (we’ll get to that) was near […]
In 2013, Lupiesoft launched a Kickstarter campaign for Dizzy Hearts: a ‘mature’ visual novel that would have been their first big project following the release of the concept demo for The Reject Demon: Toko. The campaign raised over $16,000 and promptly went into radio silence. Considering the controversies that sprung up in that time period […]
For the last two month, a small drama has been unfolding in the visual sphere. We haven’t covered it here because I wasn’t interested in the immediate story, but rather what was happening in the background. Now that it seems to be somewhat resolved, I’d like to talk about the Muv-Luv series and the implications […]
One of my favorite business stories of the past twenty years or so has to be Sir James Dyson. Here’s a guy who was tired of his vacuum cleaner losing suction before he felt it should. So, he created a cyclonic internal engine so that it wouldn’t lose suction or get clogged as easily, however […]
‘Why can’t you just enjoy [insert entertainment genre here]?’ More often than not, this is the last line of defense for a fan arguing against a critic over a piece of media. To be fair, critics have their emotional defenses against fans as well, but this one has more of an edge to it because […]