Katawa Shoujo

Katawa Shoujo is a bishoujo-style visual novel set in the fictional Yamaku High School for disabled children, located somewhere in modern Japan. Hisao Nakai, a normal boy living a normal life, has his life turned upside down when a congenital heart defect forces him to move to a new school after a long hospitalization. Despite his difficulties, Hisao is able to find friends—and perhaps love, if he plays his cards right. There are five main paths corresponding to the 5 main female characters, each path following the storyline pertaining to that character.

The story is told through the perspective of the main character, using a first person narrative. The game uses a traditional text and sprite-based visual novel model with an ADV text box.

Katawa Shoujo contains adult material, and was created using the Ren'Py scripting system. It is the product of an international team of amateur developers, and is available free of charge under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND License

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Katawa Shoujo - Opening

youtube channel

http://www.youtube.com/user/katawashoujo

Characters

Hisao Nakai - main character

Troubled over his months-long stay at the hospital after his heart almost gave out and trying to adjust to his new surroundings, he is trying hard to find his place in the world. After being thrown into a new beginning, the chaotic circumstances have forced Hisao to rethink his apathetic disposition, especially regarding things like life, friendship and future.

Emi Ibarazaki

• Birthday: March 14
• Zodiac: Pisces
• Blood Type: B
• Height: 151 cm
• Weight: 41 kg
• Bust/Waist/Hips: 70/51/74
• Hair: Light Brown
• Eyes: Poplar Green

Despite being left with legs amputated below the knee, Emi is perhaps one of the most cheery, happy-go-lucky girls on the entire globe, let alone the school. Not one to be left in despair even after the accident that claimed her legs, Emi views her disability more as a blessing, her prosthetic legs having brought her to the heights of her ability on the track team rather than becoming a permanent obstacle. 

  

Hanako Ikezawa

• Birthday: July 10
• Zodiac: Cancer
• Blood Type: AB
• Height: 164 cm
• Weight: 52 kg
• Bust/Waist/Hips: 86/56/84
• Hair: Purple
• Eyes: Grey Purple

At a young age, Hanako had a traumatic experience that left her life in shambles. Her father died when their home burned down in an accident, which also disfigured Hanako herself permanently. She is reclusive to the extreme, shunning from all other people to the point of actually panicking from any social contact. Her only trusted friend is Lilly, who has taken Hanako under her wing ever since the two were introduced to each other. 

Lilly Satou

• Birthday: February 7
• Zodiac: Aquarius
• Blood Type: A
• Height: 171 cm
• Weight: 59 kg
• Bust/Waist/Hips: 89/61/89
• Hair: Blonde
• Eyes: Blue

Blind since birth, Lilly is caring, responsible and friendly - the perfect foil to Hanako, her best friend, whom she shares an almost mother-daughter relationship with, in addition to her free time often being spent drinking tea alongside her companion. In class she is a diligent student, with her sense of confidence serving her well in her role as class representative of class 3-2. 

Rin Tezuka

• Birthday: March 13
• Zodiac: Pisces
• Blood Type: AB
• Height: 161 cm
• Weight: 50 kg
• Bust/Waist/Hips: 83/54/78
• Hair: Red
• Eyes: Dark Green

Since Rin’s arms are tiny stumps due to a severe birth defect and subsequent surgery, she uses her feet and occasionally her mouth to do everything, which includes painting. Because of her disability, using skirts is tough, so Rin is wearing a boy’s uniform at school. Her creativity is matched by her philosophical streak: Rin is fond of occasionally getting lost in thought and giving voice to abstract ideas about man, the universe, and other things that thoroughly confuse people. 

Shizune Hakamichi

• Birthday: May 6
• Zodiac: Taurus
• Blood Type: O
• Height: 158 cm
• Weight: 53 kg
• Bust/Waist/Hips: 88/52/85
• Hair: Dark Blue
• Eyes: Blue

Strong willed and forceful, Shizune is definitely the leader type. She’s been the class rep, despite being deaf and mute, for as long as her class has had one, and generally takes charge in just about any situation she’s placed in. Shizune is known around the school as a fearsome taskmaster, and skilled manipulator, but also as a fair and just leader. 

Shiina “Misha” Mikado

• Birthday: November 1
• Zodiac: Scorpio
• Blood Type: AB
• Height: 158 cm
• Weight: 57 kg
• Bust/Waist/Hips: 85/58/84
• Hair: Pink
• Eyes: Gold

Misha is the interpreter for Shizune and a fellow member of the student council. Cheery, playful, and never one to pull a punch, she happily joins in Shizune's attempts to get Hisao onto the student council.

At January 4, 2012 Four Leaf Studios proudly presents the full release of Katawa Shoujo, 3 years ago there was a demo of this game slight tweaks where made in the music and art along with some editing. It is free of charge, yes you don't have to pay for it. It was created, planned for over five long years with 21 developers world wide, yes different people in different countries worked on this visual novel along with various contributors. Katawa Shoujo means "Cripple Girl" or "Disabled Girl" girls with handicaps.

You can download the game here @

http://katawa-shoujo.com/download.php

http://katawashoujo.blogspot.com/2012/01/katawa-shoujo-released.html

Black Rock Shooter the Game License

Black Rock Shooter Game

The anime and game distributor NIS America confirmed on Wednesday that it licensed Black Rock Shooter the Game for the PSP platform in North America and Europe. The release schedule will be announced "in the near future."

The story takes place in 2032 AD after Earth has been assaulted by aliens for 19 years. A battle android named BRS is created solely for the purpose of saving Earth, but she comes to find that only 12 human beings are left on the planet.

The Black Rock Shooter franchise also inspired an original video anime, figures, and games. The artist ringo launched the Black Rock-chan four-panel manga in the inaugural issue of Kadokawa Shoten's 4-Koma Nano Ace magazine in March, and Sanami Suzuki (Net Ghost PiPoPa) launched another Black Rock Shooter ~Innocent Soul~ manga in Young Ace magazine in June. A new anime television series will air in Fuji TV's Noitama time slot in Japan in January.

Teaser

Gameplay

Source

ANN

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2011-08-24/nis-america-confirms-black-rock-shooter-the-game-license

http://nisamerica.com/nart/pbombs/2011/163/pressrelease_BRS_20110824_finalpb.pdf

Btw as it's license release it will not have the White Rock Shooter Figma and the other stuff in the special box edition of the Japanese game. It will be just the game translated. I really hope they keep all the features here an not cut out stuff like the alternate costumes or a few scenes.

Mobile Suit Gundam Extreme Vs. Leaving Arcades And Coming To PS3!!!

Mobile Suit Gundam Extreme Vs

Intro

Gameplay

Mobile Suit Gundam Extreme Vs. which is a game for the arcades only in Japan is now coming in the PS3! Alot of our favorite, popular,iconic and new gundams and other mobile suits are in the game. Namco Bandai has finally announced that it will be coming home to the PS3 console which brings alot of joy to alot of Gundam fans who are PS3 home owners.

Source:

http://www.siliconera.com

http://www.siliconera.com/tag/moible-suit-gundam-extreme-vs/

http://www.siliconera.com/2011/08/23/mobile-suit-gundam-extreme-vs-leaving-arcades-and-coming-to-ps3/

http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/2011/08/24/gundam_extreme_vs_ps3/

DmC Backlash : An article about how it's not the hair

 

 DmC Backlash

Since day one when the new DmC-Devil May Cry Reboot was shown in Tokyo Games 2010 I've been in a raging mood up to now with this direction of one of my favorite Capcom game franchise. They said wait and did a no show on Captivate and said E3 they'll make a big splash and would make the fans go back to game. That splash was a trailer gameplay quote "Gamplay Work In Progress". Which was decent enough, but analyze the trailer completely it doesn't feel like a Devil May Cry game. Everything seems to be out of place, different and awkward. There are too many things that can be said for this reboot, but mostly all articles in the net seems to insult fans of the original game series because of the backlash and others seemed to be paid off. There is one article writer though that knows what's going down with this new DmC and has every fan argument why this reboot sucks from day one. Links are below.

http://captainstarball.com/dmc

Twitter 

http://twitter.com/#!/captainstarball

Nendoroid Generations

Nendoroid Generations 

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(Bandai Namco, PSP)
 

Namco Bandai's latest RPG is set in a school. Sounds familiar enough. But this isn't any old school-based RPG! The characters in Nendoroid Generation are Nendoroids, the popular figures from Good Smile Company. And the school they attend: Nendo High School, of course!


Nendoroid Generation features Nendoroid figure versions of characters from a number of franchises. Characters introduced in this week's Famitsu include:


Black Rock Shooter (Black Rock Shooter)
Dead Master (Black Rock Shooter)
Black Gold Saw (Black Rock Shooter)
Saber (Fate)
Rider (Fate)
Rin Tosaka (Fate)
Nanoha Takamachi (Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha)
Fate Testarossa (Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha)
Haruhi Suzumiya (Haruhi Suzumiya)
Yuki Nagato (Haruhi Suzumiya)
Mikuru Asahina (Haruhi Suzumiya)

 

Preview Images

 

Sources

Famitsu Jp

Famitsu Translated

Andriasang

Black Rock Shooter THE GAME WRS charm by JRPG

White Rock Shooter Charm

According to the JRPG BRS the game news, during to the per-order state of the “Limited Edition White Premium BOX“ which bundled with figma WRS is way over the expectation of JRPG, the production of figma WRS may not be enough for all the stores. Therefore they will bundle this WRS charm for the Standard Edition and hope for those who can’t get the Limited Edition will satisfy with the Standard Edition.

Sources:
JRPG
NekoMagic

Limited Edition "White Premium BOX"
10,479 yen (tax included)
Includes
Original Illustrated Deluxe Box by huke
Black Rock Shooter THE GAME
Original Figure figma Black Rock Shooter (White) (Tentative)
Black Rock Shooter Art Works (Tentative)
Limited Soundtrack

Bundled with PSP game Black Rock Shooter THE GAME Standard Edition.
With WRS Charm
Price: 6,279 Yen

Those Yandere Eyes.

Five things you never knew about Pac-Man

PACMAN is probably one of the most well known video game characters of all time. But did you know there are a few surprising things that we never knew when this game was in development.
Toru Iwatani had a conference on San Francisco and there he said a few surprising things about this well known and loved game.

The point of the game was to attract girls

While today's player is slightly more likely to be male, gaming in the late 1970s was pretty much exclusively a men's club. Iwatani wanted to change this, creating something that could appeal to both women and families, he says.

"The reason I created Pac-Man was because we wanted to attract female gamers," he says. "Back then, there were no home games. People had to go to the arcade center to play games. That was a playground for boys. It was dirty and smelly. So we wanted to include female players, so it would become cleaner and brighter."

Each ghost had specific orders

When you play the game, it might seem as if the four ghosts are actively chasing you. That's not exactly true. Iwatani intentionally avoided programming them with that purpose, since that would have resulted in Pac-Man zipping around the screen with four ghosts always right behind him.

Instead, it's only Blinky, the red ghost, who doggedly pursues you throughout the game. Pinky, the pink ghost (naturally), simply wants to position itself at a point that's 32 pixels in front of Pac-Man's mouth. The blue ghost, Inky, is seeking to position itself at a similar fixed spot. And Clyde, the orange ghost, moves completely at random.

Because the player constantly has Pac-Man on the go, however, the ghosts are always changing direction and trying to achieve their goal, which adds to the challenge of the game.

What, exactly, does Pac-Man mean?

You may have heard the story about how a pizza with a missing slice inspired Pac-Man's design. But it turns out the game was designed entirely around food.

"I thought about something that may attract girls," says Iwatani. "Maybe boy stories or something to do with fashion. However, girls love to eat desserts. My wife often does! So the verb ‘eat' gave me a hint to create this game."

That theme continued with the game's name. In Japanese, "puck puck" is akin to the U.S. saying "munch munch". So the original name - Puck-Man - translated as "Munch man". (A savvy Midway Games official changed it to Pac-Man when the game hit the U.S. to discourage vandals from shaving off part of the "P," thereby creating an obscene word.)

The missing puzzle piece

Pac-Man was designed to be as simple as possible, to attract a wide audience. The limits of technology in 1980 made this a little easier to achieve. Iwatani says he's happy about this now, but at the time, there was one more thing he wanted to add to the game.

"I wanted to have a shelter and it would move up and down," he says. "When the ghost comes, the ghost would be pinched by the shelter which would disfigure the ghost."

The ghosts were almost just one color

It's kind of hard to picture Pac-Man without the brightly colored ghosts today, but when the game was being developed, Iwatani says he was pressured hard to change that.

The president of Namco ordered him to make the ghosts a single color - red, to be precise - since she believed players would be confused that some ghosts, perhaps, were Pac-Man's ally.

Iwatani refused the order and on questionnaires to the game's testers, asked if they would prefer a single color ghost or four. Not a single person wanted the single-color option. That ultimately convinced the president she was wrong.

Source:

http://blog.games.yahoo.com/blog/443-five-things-you-never-knew-about-pac-man


More info on Toru Iwatani the creator of PACMAN.

http://pacmanmuseum.com/history/Toru-Iwatani.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C5%8Dru_Iwatani


For those who wanna play the old school game PACMAN go here.
Or Yahoo Games

Devil May Cry Movie

A live action Devil May Cry movie is on the works. Will it be like the Resident Evil movies? Or the Street Fighter movies? Anyways as long as they stick to the iconic Dante in the movie and not the Ninja Theory reboot Dante. Also in my opinion they should star Reuben Langdon as Dante. He's well known to play the voice actor and motion capture of Dante in Devil May Cry 3 and 4 .


Sources:

http://www.capcom-unity.com/jgonzo/blog/2011/02/28/devil_may_cry_going_to_hollywood?pg=21

http://uk.movies.ign.com/articles/115/1152720p1.html

Se.Kirara

SE.Kirara

http://se-kirara.jp/

Official Game Patch. - It patches for random typos and instabilities of the game

http://se-kirara.jp/notice/patch.html

Other downloadble goodies.

http://se-kirara.jp/DL/dl.html

Trailer




Youtube Channel

http://www.youtube.com/user/maxsekirara

Characters

Kawamura Yu - the main heroin of the series a good cook and she's cute.



Kagura Aya - the girl that always gets into trouble, she's got alot of cats.



Akiyama Nozomi - the mysterious transfer student

Shizuno Izumi - the main character's childhood friend



Miyuki Mana - the tsundere



Miyuki Mana Ver.2
Idol Ver.


Secret character in the game.



Hgame Walkthrough

http://seiya-saiga.com/game/native/se-kirara.html


Comments

I was attracted to this because of the Figma's MaxFactory released. They have alot of neat accessories which I really like to see in a figure. So I started to collect this series. Also the most popular character is Aya Kagura the blond girl, but I personally like Miyuki Mana. The Hgame/Eroge is free btw, but you gotta buy Figma and patch it. LOL No wonder it was free because of the figma that comes with it and patch it requires. Anyways this is a great buy, you won't regret having these figma's and game.

DmC - Devil May Cry Reboot

DmC (Devil May Cry) is a REBOOT of the Devil May Cry series and is now being developed by Ninja Theory and published by Capcom for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, it is the first in the series not to be developed internally by Capcom. The game's story will not follow the continuity of the previous Devil May Cry games and will serve as a new origin on Dante on how he became to be the demon hunter/slayer we know. Take note this Dante is now has now a darker persona, a sadistic psychopath out for vengeance where the reasons will be revealed later on in the game. Limbo City is the setting of the story a city ruled by demons from Hell. Dante is a young man born with a demon linage born in Limbo City. He is being held in a mental hospital or a police station beaten up and bruised and interrogated as subject 64432B.


TGS Trailer


Reaction......

WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT?!!!! Initially in TGS(Tokyo Game Show) this was the most controversial and most negatively received by fans and gamers alike. They changed Dante's hair from white/silver to black with a white patch. Interview says he'll eventually gain back his white hair due to the course of the gameplay LAME!!! Did they made a reboot just to tell the story of Dante's hair? That's the stupidest thing I've herd. Though fans like myself can let that slide, but
the interviews on Ninja Theory and Capcom are not so good either. They seem to not know alot about the old Devil May Cry series games and is bashing the old school Dante like in which he's not cool anymore, he's a fashionista and will be laughed at when he goes out to the public. LOL!!! and rage at the same time. Like their take on Dante won't get arrested for looking like a drug addict junkie emo from the movie Twilight. Also the lead cheif designer looks similar to the new Dante, which greatly added fuel to the fire. Alot of inconsistent interviews have been said and done which gives NT and Capcom less credibility now. Other facts after a few days later NT was getting help from Capcom Japan on the game while now they're hiring Asian experts on culture and I thought they wanted to westernized the DMC series, why get help from the east?!! The only good part on this is that this will not be in the same universe or continuity of the original DMC series and in a last decent interview on Capcom/NT they wanted to add the things in the cutscenes of the old DMC games to the gameplay. Other than that, the new Dante or "Donte" or Nagurante which most Japanese call him because he looks similar to the Japanese comedian actor Jun Nagura.

Also on a take on this new "Donte". The original Dante is a non smoker, loves pizza, takes a bath and drinks a few beer now and then, smart ass talker and has a heart. The new one is a sadistic psychopath that is out for revenge, kills brutally, has questionable trademark weapons since he's missing Rebellion old school Dante's sword on all DMC games, which was replaced by a staff that stretches like a tentacle(Yes God of War). Ebony and Ivory??? Questionable since his guns in the trailer seem to have a different design and lacks power, his BLACK hair and his questionable/controversial looks from the chief director of NT, Edward Cullen from Twilight, being a junkie addict and much more.

The question here is why did Capcom need to reboot the DMC series? It was doing great on the games, but now with this can they pull off something up their sleeves? It only now lies on the gameplay for some, others like me are afraid of the storyline and direction. Anyways my parting words for this upcoming game is that it should have been another game title, not slapping on a popular franchise name like DMC and calling it DmC reboot with a darker "Donte" which clearly it isn't in all sense and essence of the original roots of DMC is not found here. Pretty much many as of now are VERY disappointed of the outcome of the year and half just for that trailer. If there is anything good I can say about the trailer it's the music just that nothing else.

Websites Sources:

http://scrawlfx.com/2010/09/ninja-theory-old-dante-isnt-cool-anymore
http://www.joystiq.com/2010/09/22/devil-may-cry-reboot-inspired-by-james-bond-series/
http://www.nowgamer.com/news/4295/ninja-theory-wants-asian-experts-for-dmc
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2010-09-22-dmc-devil-may-cry-interview?page=1
http://gamrfeed.vgchartz.com/story/82208/dmc-developers-wanted-dante-to-be-harder-less-fashionista/
http://g4tv.com/videos/48862/DMC-Devil-May-Cry-Producer-Interview/
http://playstationlifestyle.net/2010/09/28/unreal-engine-to-power-devil-may-cry-reboot/
FUCK YOU Says Donte
http://www.thegamingvault.com/nggallery/post/dante-gives-dmc-fans-the-middle-finger/image/767

How can you respect something like that? >_>

Street Fighter X Tekken

The dream fighting games cross over everyone is waiting for!!! Street Fighter X Tekken.

Capcom's Yoshinori Ono announced Street Fighter vs. Tekken — a tag team crossover game with 2D gameplay — and showed a trailer for the title. Here are some videos and images from Comic-Con 2010.

SAN DIEGO, CA — July 24, 2010 — Capcom, a leading worldwide developer and publisher of video games today announced that Street Fighter X Tekken is in development for the PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system and the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft. The title will make history as fighters from these two bastions of the fighting genre come together for the very first time.

Source: eventhubs

Previews:
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