- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Feb 12, 2012 14:02 JST
- Tags: Atelier, DLC, Gust, Koei, Marketing, Moe, Otaku, PSP, Visual Novels

Budding fans of the Vita’s upcoming real-time fairy dating game Ciel nosurge have been aghast to learn that the game is episodic and will take over a year to finish and cost 2-3 times the price of a normal title.
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Top producer of unplayably buggy and endlessly delayed eroge Overflow has announced that “Shiny Days” will be its “final” work and that it is “not going bankrupt or anything like that!” – and, surprise of surprises, its release will be delayed 2 months as well.
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A technically inclined onanist has apparently developed a piece of software designed to exploit the notoriously advanced capabilities of the USB Onacon, capable of not only measuring speed, insertion time and other vital onanistic statistics, but even of uploading the results to Twitter so fellow onanists can compare their performance…
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A gamer at an Internet cafe who died after a 23-hour marathon spree may have been sat dead at his PC amongst other patrons for as long as 9 hours.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, H, News
- Date: Feb 4, 2012 04:34 JST
- Tags: 3D CG, Image Gallery, Namco Bandai, Panchira, Pantsu, PS3, Soul Calibur, Xbox 360

The release of the latest in the Soul Calibur series naturally sees players onanistically analysing the graphics in great, great detail, and what findings they have made:
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Japan’s controversial new law criminalising mod chips and DVD ripping has been applied for the first time, resulting in the arrest of a man for modding several Nintendo Wiis.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Jan 30, 2012 20:00 JST
- Tags: Atelier, Gust, Image Gallery, Koei, Moe, Otaku, PSP, RPG, Visual Novels


Gust’s upcoming PS Vita moeblob-dating sim “Ciel nosurge” has been attracting a great deal of favourable attention online, and looks set to become the most hotly anticipated title on the Vita – at least amongst the creepy otaku demographic.
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Doujin fans are quaking at the wrath of Disney, which has just shut down a free doujin game for daring to include a likeness of Mickey Mouse, demanding ¥6,000,000 in compensation for good measure.
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Newly unveiled “HD anime” JRPG Toki to Eien: Tokitowa has been enthusiastically greeted by both anime and RPG fans (admittedly two groups with a great deal of overlap) as the “ultimate RPG for anime fans.”
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Jan 24, 2012 09:36 JST
- Tags: Copyright, Crime, Endings, Internet, Law, Police, Politics, Sites, USA

Such major file hosting services as Filesonic and Fileserve have begun shutting down or crippling their services out of fear that they may end up following Megaupload’s management in being extradited to the US to face charges of facilitating copyright infringement on a grand scale.
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- Author: Leon
- Categories: Galleries, Games
- Date: Jan 20, 2012 20:06 JST
- Tags: Gravure, IdolM@ster, Image Gallery, Mizugi, Oppai, Oshiri, Otaku, PS3, Sukumizu

IdolMaster aficionados have discovered that the saucy gravure posing Gravure4You offers may very well have superseded the 3D idols they are intended to emulate.
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Rinami‘s alarmingly good cosplay of Love Plus‘ dangerously sexy virtual companion Nene Anegasaki could well go some way to further weakening Japan’s menfolk, not that they are likely to be complaining about this…
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