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’s not everyday that I celebrate the end of a Kickstarter, but I think this one deserves it. Not because I’m their biggest fan, but because of what they’re bringing to table with their catalog. Neoclassic Games is an Italian developer with a focus on, as the name suggests, classic works of fiction. Their debut […]
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 […]
Today, several visual novel developers got word that they would have to edit some of their adult titles if they wanted to continue to sell them on the platform. JP3 covers the news, analyzes the subsequent outrage and…talks about Roman history? How did that get in there? For those fans of the ‘adult’ subgenre, check out […]
The Bishounen Are Coming Y’all let your imaginations do the rest of the work here and picture me as Ned Stark with Ice on a hill as a bishounen/white-walker army heads in my direction. Trust me, it works. Nintendo has been breaking news for over a week now since the announcement that Shuntaro Furukawa would be […]
So, do you dig giant robots? I know I dig giant robots and I have it on good authority that chicks also dig giant robots. Hopefully, we all dig giant robots because we’re about to get a few more in the arsenal of freedom. During the Game Developers Conference this year, Spike Chunsoft’s CEO Mitsuotoshi […]
A lot of news came out of MangaGamer today. Technically yesterday was White Day in the East. Basically it’s a reverse Valentine’s Day where girls present boys with certain gifts: specifically white chocolate. To celebrate, MangaGamer has three games on sale: Fashioning Little Miss Lonesome, Ozmafia , and Kindred Spirits on the Roof. I can […]
Over the past few days, the Dizzy Hearts Kickstarter reached its $10,000 goal. This will fully funded a voice bank system for the game. If donors want full voice acting, that tier is still a ways away. However, no matter what happens now, the project has the extra funding Lupiesoft requested. It will be interesting […]
In a fascinating report released today, GameIndustry.biz reports that three visual novel apps generated $14 million in combined revenue in February 2018 alone. We rarely talk about the mobile VN/game market here, which must change since we have far more data on its operations than we do the overall visual novel industry. Mobile app games […]
Fruitbat Factory is one of the more fun groups I get to follow. The translator collective has one of the more diverse catalogs in gaming at the moment: spanning from the tongue-in-cheek RPG Lionheart to the somber horror drama Enigma. Their recent project is Acceleration of SUGURI 2: a Bullet Hell shooter that sounds right […]