XBLAZE is the Visual Novel Portion of BlazBlue Turned Into a Game (July 2013 PS3/Vita)

Xblaze (PS3/Vita) is Arc System Works response to the positive fan reaction to the visual novel elements in Blazblue. Apparently this is just part one of a series. The producer…

Hatsune Miku Project mirai2 announced for the 3DS

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New 5pb Game Kaihou Shoujo SIN is a Visual Novel for PS3 (by Suda Gouichi?)

Kaihou Shoujo is originally a shooting game on the 3DS directed by Suda Gouichi and is one quarter of Guild01. But now they’re expanding its story into a visual novel…

Photos of Visual Art’s 20 Years Memorial Art Book [from Shcboomer]

Shcboomer posted some photos of his Visual arts 20 years memorial book which I blogged about before. Apparently, 75~% of the book consists of images from Key games. There’s also…

Yandere (the game) Partial Patch Out – by Dark Eye Translations

“This patch covers Maika’s route and the common route. The endings of Saki’s route and Yuumi’s route are not in there, and Yuumi’s sex scenes aren’t either. They’re translated, but…

Dengeki Online's Most Anticipated Bishoujo-ge is 1) Kud Wafter, 2) Steins;Gate sequel, 3) MuvLuv Alt Total Eclipse

According to a recent polls from G-net, Dengeki Online, favourite upcoming bishoujo games are: I’m sure, the number of voters would have been small, probably less than a thousand. But…

Oreimo PS3 Game Will Use Full 3D Models

Ore no imouto gets a third game. Hurrah! The first two games are on the PSP (and is getting a fan translation). The third is on PS3. This time they…

Fate/Otome Fan-Made Otome Game Demo Released!

Fate/Otome is a fan-made visual novel, an otome game twist on the Fate/Stay Night franchise (but more so Fate/Zero), featuring characters from the show specifically the male characters. It’s described…

Director of Chunsoft Speaks on Narrative Design in Visual Novels (GDC2013)

Posted on Siliconera, the director and scenario writer of Chunsoft Kotaro Uchikoshi (999, Kamaitachi, Zero Escape) delivered a talk titled Visual Novels: Narrative Design in Virtue’s Last Reward. Here are…

Support a visual novel hacker on kickstarter

Tinfoil created a kickstarter project to hack the Livemaker3 engine, “An extraction, parsing, and re-insertion toolkit in Python to assist translators working with the LiveMaker3 visual novel engine.” It’s one…