Capcom Announces Ace Attorney Apollo Justice Trilogy

Capcom’s highly acclaimed Ace Attorney series got its start back in 2001 with the release of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney for the Game Boy Advance. It received generally favorable reviews,…

DLsite’s Otome Branch Announces English, Chinese, and Korean Localizations of Club Suicide: Complete Edition

DLsite Garumani, the otome branch of DLsite, has announced that they will be releasing an English, Chinese, and Korean localization of Club Suicide: Complete Edition. While the potential release date…

MAGES. Director Announces NEW Localization plans, Corpse Party, and More.

About 5 months ago, MAGES.inc, the developers behind Steins;Gate and the SciADV series, all but became insolvent, being unable to pay debts, and was at risk of bankruptcy. We wrote…

Ever17 and Never7 to receive Remakes

Never7 and Ever17 are two mystery Visual Novels released by MAGES and KID in 2000 and 2002 respectively, with Nakazawa Takumi as the creative director, Uchikoshi Koutarou as the lead…

The Future Radio and the Artificial Pigeons Gets an English Release!

On January 22nd 2023, NekoNyanSoft announced on Twitter that the 2018 title The Future Radio and the Artificial Pigeons (Mirai Radio to Jinkou-bato) would be getting an official English release on…

VISUAL ARTS BLOG: 4 New EN Releases for 2023 & Unnannounced Games, Company’s Future Plans

New Worldwide Game Releases: Baba Takahiro, representative director of Key/VisualArts, released a blog post on the 12th detailing the aspirations for the famed visual novel developer going into 2023. This…

Tone Works and Frill are No Longer Owned by Publisher Visual Arts

Tone Works is one of many VN studios owned by publisher Visual Arts, who also possess the rights to the popular studio Key (Clannad, Planetarian, etc.). Tone Works is responsible…

[18+] Shiravune to Release Nope Nope Nurses sequel, Pre-orders open!

Publisher Shiravune has announced on their twitter account that the sequel to last year’s Nope Nope Nurses, appropriately titled Nope Nope Nope Nurses, releases in just two weeks, on January…

Tokyo Necro suffers delay, Steam/GoG options and Limited Edition confirmed

Video games get delayed — this is a painful truth we face in the industry. We are forced to swallow it, but it is even harder when the title in…

MAGES Is Nearing Insolvency. What Will Happen To The SciADV Series Now?

The company MAGES.inc—formerly known as 5pb.—was established in 2005 by Chiyomaru Shikura, and would go on to release some of the most popular and influential visual novels of all time,…