In 2000, at the end of that year’s last Comiket convention, Type-Moon released Tsukihime, an eroge visual novel about vampires. 25 years later, you can now play its remake, Tsukihime - A piece of blue ...

Dispatch advertises itself as a workplace superhero comedy, but this irreverent debut from AdHoc studio is so much more than your standard release. Dispatch is, in many ways, the revival of a whole ...

EXCLUSIVE: The games unit of horror specialist Blumhouse is working with Asgard Books on a graphic novel version of video game Fear the Spotlight. Patricia Villeto (Sonic Prime) is writing the ...

After the English-speaking gaming world spent decades saying little more than "lol, Japan" at the concept of visual novels, the genre has finally grown enough in popularity for notable titles to ...

Visual novel games come in all shapes and sizes. Some of them are rich fantasy epics with 42 branching paths and hidden easter eggs, while others are bite-sized gems that are perfect for cozy train ...

New studio Parallel Creates has announced Yggdra Kingdom, a new visual novel / action adventure game for PlayStation 4 and Switch. It will launch on November 27 in Japan for 9,878 yen. A limited ...

One of the best parts about itch.io (when it isn’t deindexing games) is the digital storefront’s ability to host game jams. These not only invite developers to create interesting projects based on a ...

The industry’s shift toward live service games that are updated for years has studios unwilling to embrace the power of mortality. By Jamal Michel Twenty years ago, while the credits rolled on Shadow ...

Visual novels cater to beginners with simple gameplay focused on choices rather than complex mechanics. Visual novels cover ...

Horror visual novels cater to both beginners and mature players, providing introductions to the genre. Games like "Vampire: ...

With the release of Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, director Hideo Kojima enters his fourth decade in game development as a director. While the celebrated “auteur” has spent the majority of his ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The smoothness of the animation in Dispatch left me gawking as I analyzed every subtle expression ...