
Massively popular ero-illustrator Tony has taken the unusual step of revealing his face in an interview, along with much about his past, the origins of his name and his art itself.
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Square Enix’s reputation as the EA of the East continues to harden amongst Final Fantasy fans – their latest announcement of a “new Final Fantasy Tactics title” turns out to be a social game for mobile phones…
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An otaku musician famous on NicoNico Douga has been arrested for having sex with an underage fan who approached him at Comiket.
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Index Corporation – the social gaming company which owns Atlus – has just posted its worse losses ever and is now both insolvent and in danger of being delisted from JASDAQ, throwing the future of the Megami Tensei and Persona franchises into grave doubt.
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Vanillaware’s much anticipated upcoming 2D RPG Dragon’s Crown is still attracting attention for its anatomical extremes – this time with the latest trailer for the Sorceress showing just how well animated she can be…
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Amazingly, Senran Kagura has not only managed to top a chart somewhere but also managed it outside Japan – scoring the distinction of being the most downloaded PSV game of February 2013 in Hong Kong, not a territory traditionally associated with hyper bust-’em-ups.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Apr 5, 2013 05:29 JST
- Tags: DLC, Keitai, Marketing, Ports, PSP, RPG, Square Enix, TCG, Video Gallery

The latest controversy courted by Square Enix comes in the form of their decision to release “Million Arthur” on the PlayStation Vita – the first time the company has been shameless enough as to release a F2P smartphone card game on a real gaming device.
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After finally sacking its CEO for all the vast losses he caused, Square Enix’s new boss is promising “radical” change – starting by scrapping a lot of as yet unspecified projects and concentrating the company’s resources on what may very possibly turn out to be making social games for the Chinese and Koreans.
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The first glimpse at upcoming moechemy RPG Atelier Escha & Logy reveals heroine Escha Malier to be every bit as cute as her forbears, and also boasting rather more bishonen than previous titles in the form of the tongue-twistingly hot Logix Ficsario.
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- Author: Bitfrost
- Categories: Games, H, News
- Date: Apr 1, 2013 14:09 JST
- Tags: Comparison, Eroge, Guro, JAST, Marketing, Nitroplus, Translation, Visual Novels


Top guro-eroge Saya no Uta’s English language version is nearing release this May, promising plenty of messy action in the form of one of Nitroplus and Gen Urobuchi’s better known works.
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An official Capcom ranking of the most beloved Street Fighters has been attracting attention – mainly for the yawning and rather embarrassing (though to whom is perhaps open to question) gulf between the preferences of Japanese and Americans, with obscure schoolgirls easily ousting the likes of Ryuken…
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GDC 2013 sees Kojima and company announcing the next full title in the Metal Gear series – Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, for PS3 and Xbox 360.
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