Today, MangaGamer announced that they would no longer be offering complementary Steam keys for games purchased from their website. The payment gateway on the MangaGamer website is also closed and no timetable has been released for when it will reopen. These unfortunate issues come on the weekend MangaGamer released Kindred Spirits on the Roof: a […]
Good morning all and welcome to February! Traditionally, this is a moderately busy month as developers prepare for the thirty day rush that is NaNoRenO in March. We are expecting a few Japanese releases later on and, of course, FREAKING SOLSTICE but let’s close out January right! We had a storm of visual novel releases […]
So we don’t normally cover anime and gaming conventions here on VNs Now, but they are playing more of a role in this growing genre and creating more opportunities for developers. If we had a big ‘industry’ convention, it would probably be AnimeExpo in Los Angeles. It is shaping up to be where groups like MangaGamer, […]
Okay this is more of a commentary than a straight-up news story because there is a larger point I’d like to make here so here we go. This week, a list of games Twitch has banned from being streamed on their server hit started spreading on the Internet. It was a pretty quiet affair until […]
Happy New Year all! Yes, it’s technically mid-January, but the VN community has started the year off in a hurry. We have a great deal to cover, so let’s started with a game that has been in development for quite some time. Ayu Sakata and the good folks at Sakevisual have been working on Backstage […]
Well, we are near the end of 2015! It has been an interesting year for us here at VNs Now and in the larger EVN gaming community as well. There were a few rough patches in there and more than a little controversy. However, VNs Now is in a much better position than we were […]
This past weekend, rumors began to swirl across the visual novel community that the development group Winged Cloud and publisher Sekai Project have parted ways. This began after someone went to Steam and realized that Winged Cloud’s catalog have removed Sekai Project as their publisher. On Monday afternoon, VNs Now received an e-mail from Sekai Project […]
The hits just keep on coming apparently. Today, the VN group Marble Syrup may have admitted to stealing artwork for one of its free-to-play titles on Newgrounds. This is a story I got wind of yesterday in the aftermath of the Akisekai controversy and, legally, the exact issue with this one can be a little […]
Today, several comments have been made on the recent news article Akisekai: Greed and Lies dealing with someone named Jason Jiyu Yue. Jason Yue is the name listed as the authorized handler of the Akisekai Kickstarter account. These comments have asked that I remove Mr. Yue’s name from the article because he and the person […]
EDIT (8/27/2015): I have had a conversation with Jason Yue today and, in keeping with my word, his name has been removed from the main article. You can read more about everything that happened concerning that here. If you wasn’t attached to either Kickstarter or Twitter this weekend, you missed a backer revolt. I missed it as well […]