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

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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Top HRPG Ar Tonelico has finally provided western fans with one of its saucy artbooks, available now.
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Japanese asked to rank the most profoundly memorable video game systems give a list unlikely to elicit much controversy from gamers, whether Japanese or not.
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The delectable Velvet, of top side-scrolling RPG Odin Sphere, is here cosplayed immaculately by Shirayuki Himeno.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, H, News
- Date: Aug 9, 2010 02:37 JST
- Tags: Eroge, Legends, PS2, PS3, RPG, Sora no Woto, Video Gallery, Visual Novels, Yuri



Steamy yuri scenes from mainstream games of all kinds have been compiled into the video below for the edification of viewers, demonstrating that scenes of hot lesbian love are not merely the preserve of 18+ eroge:
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Popular PS2 school romance visual novel Amagami is to receive an anime adaptation, and a preview offers a glimpse:
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Apr 9, 2010 05:50 JST
- Tags: 3D CG, Comparison, Fail, Nintendo, PS2, RPG, Video Gallery, Wii, Xenosaga



The latest title in the much esteemed Xenosaga/Xenogears line of games, Xenoblade, is a causing a stir for all the wrong reasons.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Mar 3, 2010 11:43 JST
- Tags: Afghanistan, Islam, Military, PS2, PS3, Sony, Technology, USA, Video Gallery

The US military claims Sony’s PlayStation is being used by Taliban terrorists in their attacks on the armies of liberty.
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An interview with Square Enix reveals that Final Fantasy XIII was actually initially developed as a PS2 game.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Jan 19, 2010 07:42 JST
- Tags: 2ch, Bugs, Eroge, Fail, Ports, PS2, Rankings, Video Gallery, Wii

The worst video game of 2009 has been all but decided, with 2ch’s 2009 “Kusoge of the Year” award being handed down to a title so buggy as to barely be playable, in fact possessing even more bugs than were present in the PC original.
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Classic PS2 giant monster scaling simulator Shadow of the Colossus has received a C77 doujinshi focused on moefied renderings of the titans of the title.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, H, News
- Date: Oct 20, 2009 01:54 JST
- Tags: Bloomers, Censorship, Mecha Musume, Moe, Ports, PS2, Sony, Xbox 360

The notorious “Sony check,” where Sony makes frequently puritanical demands of developers in order to keep any hint of sex off its consoles, seems to have reached new lows, with one developer describing how Sony would insist characters wearing normal gym kit be removed unless they had a compelling reason for sporting them…
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