Recently, I caught up with a marketing distributor that works with various visual novel publishers, to get a better feel for the state of the eroge market in Japan.

Marketing means everything as far as today’s game market is concerned. For better or for worse, no matter how good or bad your game is, chances are it’ll sell if you put the right kind of marketing behind it.…

Star Ocean may not be Dragon Quest or Final Fantasy, but it is an established Square Enix franchise. Microsoft seems content about that and…

Thanks to the Japanese Trademark database we’re clued into another Shining Force game from Sega. Shining Force Cross was registered on December 10 along…

Square Enix wants to make sure Japan, well at least Tokyo, is aware of Dissidia: Final Fantasy’s release. For a limited time daily commuters…

You may perceive your Nintendo DS as a handheld system where you can hop online and play Mario Kart DS against the world, but Nintendo…

How can a commercial be so bad that it makes you want a game less after watching it? Observe.
 
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Let’s say you managed…