- 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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- 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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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Dec 30, 2011 15:38 JST
- Tags: Eroge, Famitsu, Final Fantasy, Metal Gear, PS2, PSP, Rankings, RPG, Square Enxi

Top gaming rag Famitsu has quizzed its readers as to what games they find themselves dhedding the most tears over, unsurprisingly finding them to be a soppy bunch reduced to tears by the latest overwrought Final Fantasy yarn…
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Final Fantasy XIII-2′s first week sales figures reveal it has been outsold by Tales of Xillia, a fact which is being greeted as a massive humiliation and confirmation that Final Fantasy brand now lies in ruins.
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Namco Bandai Games have announced that Tales Studio, the studio responsible for producing its popular line of Tales RPGs, is to be disbanded and merged into Namco Bandai proper.
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Even Kirino herself is drooling over the news that the new Ore no Imouto Portable game will be “full of H scenes” and is apparently to contain yet another pregnancy ending.
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The perverse reluctance of the shade of Atlus to make a new Persona title for the PS3 is now reaching farcical levels – the latest addition to the series is to be a 2D fighting game spin-off, accompanied by yet another portable remake.
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Madoka fans can now re-enact familiar scenes of mahou shoujo abuse on the PSP, whilst getting hold of a rather impressive selection of special edition goods, thanks to the upcoming “sparkly magic adventure RPG” by Bandai Namco and Nitroplus.
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- Author: Leon
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Aug 5, 2011 07:35 JST
- Tags: Artbooks, Character Design, Oppai, PS3, PSP, RPG, Sega, Translation, Valkyria Chronicles

Fans of Valkyria Chronicles can now inspect in English the character and vehicle designs which made the franchise such a success (if a succession of PSP “sequels” can be considered as such), thanks to the recent publication of the Valkyria Chronicle Design Archive – replete with detailed treatment of each character’s swimwear…
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The successor to PSP demi-eroge Queen’s Blade Spiral Chaos, Queen’s Gate Spiral Chaos features a variety of saucy new characters ready have their clothes torn off in favour of a covering of unidentified milky fluids.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, H, News
- Date: Jun 12, 2011 13:57 JST
- Tags: Artists, Character Design, Image Gallery, Oppai, PS3, PSP, RPG, Simoshi, Vanillaware

It is hard to see the mixed reaction to the idiosyncratic art style adopted by upcoming Odin Sphere successor Dragon’s Crown having arisen were the designs more along the lines of top artist Simoshi‘s ravishing conception of the game’s sorceress character, above.
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Dragon’s Crown, the latest “belt floor” RPG from Vanillaware, the developers of the much acclaimed Odin Sphere and Muramasa, has been unveiled, and its character designs are attracting as much attention as its gorgeous 2D graphics…
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