
Hit visual novel Koihime Musou is now available with all Japanese voicing intact thanks to MangaGamer, fully DRM-free, translated and uncensored for maximum enjoyment, finally reversing the rather lamentable state of affairs which saw the original English release muted.
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MangaGamer have announced the imminent availability of their latest English language eroge title “Magical Teacher,” a game unsurprisingly focusing on the sexual adventures of a protagonist under magical tutelage, and are also intent on providing some free copies to Sankaku Complex denizens.
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The winners to the 7th otaku haiku awards have been announced, with thousands of dollars of cash prizes rewarding those best able to capture the ennui of otaku life in 5-7-5 haiku verse. Sankaku Complex has humbly endeavoured to provide such crude translations of their poetic elegance as are possible in a mere barbarian tongue.
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Paradox Interactive, Nitro Games and Cyber Front have been attracting considerable attention for their apparent marketing nous in changing the cover of “Pirates of Black Cove” so as to better appeal to the Japanese.
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2ch has finally gotten wind of the release of 4chan-originated cripple-fancying game Katawa Shoujo, and even they are not sparing in expressing their outrage and disgust at its “discrimination against the disabled” – most having apparently forgotten their own notorious hatred of Koreans so as not to spoil the chance to engage in some righteous outrage against the insensitive barbarians…
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Bandai has announced its withdrawal from the US anime publishing business, a move greeted by the usual litany of piracy accusations from angry Japanese otaku with a less than favourable view of their overseas brethren.
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Aselia The Eternal, a quite complete and fully voiced romantic (though non-adult) RPG by Xuse has been released in English by JAST.
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Charming cephalopod invader Ika Musume is apparently able to speak English, if only in squidgin form.
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US reviewers have been raving over the recent American release of Disgaea 4, with some going so far as to award it 100%, lavishing praise on its highly refined SRPG gameplay whilst maintaining diplomatic reserve about other elements…
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The “Chinese edition” of Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru has lately been attracting attention for any number of reasons – mostly relating to its rather spectacularly suspect cover…
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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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Catherine’s creepy anime graphics and extreme difficulty are apparently not too much for American gamers after all – the game has received a series of ringing endorsements from US gaming rags, some as high as 100%.
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