The Frontier Works website has announced that they will be expanding Umineko no naku koro ni onto other media starting this summer. I hope they aren’t going to announce an anime, it still feels too early in the story to have an anime already.
Akibablog reports that KFC has told the Akihabara branch to stop dressing Colonel Sanders in a maid costume apparently, so he has been returned to his original self.
Tasogare Frontier has updated their site with a new demo for their upcoming Touhou fighting game, Touhou Hisouten. It’s available from the download page. Reimu, Marisa, Alice, and Shameimaru! are available and Reimu’s story mode is playable up till stage 3.
They haven’t yet announced it on the Tasogare Frontier website, but the full version of the game will be released at the coming Reitaisai on the 25th of May.
Eroge brand Windmill has released their custom ADV engine called CatSystem2 to the public. The CatSystem2 engine is free for personal use or for making doujin games, but they have not yet decided if it will be free for commercial use.
CatSystem2 is the same engine that Windmill uses to make their games so it should be useful for people looking for another alternative free ADV game engine.
Famitsu has a report on the Alchemist event held yesterday where they officially announced Higurashi Daybreak PSP together with some screenshots from the game. The characters and graphics sure look really different!
Rakuten Soutahouse has updated with a list of upcoming games and revealed that a PSP game called Higurashi Daybreak Portable is in the works, which appears to be a PSP port of the doujin game of the same name.
Toranoana’s free information booklet Toratsuu has announced that Trouble Witches 2 is currently in production, together with a with a serialized novel of Trouble Witches which will appear in the Toratsuu every month. The characters look really… plain this time.
via: スタジオシエスタ総合スレ5
The second game for Umineko no naku koro ni was released during the winter comiket. I’ve been forgetting to play it for a while, but I finished it over the weekend. And… yeah. There isn’t much that I can think of to comment about this game, but… (spoilers)
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Doujin circle ClassiC shikoukairo has released the trial test version of their upcoming SRPG Grana Embrace for download. They actually released the first test demo during summer comiket last year, they sure took a long time to release a web version!
I wonder if they can manage to release the game in 2008…
Ejin kenkyuusho brings news regarding their correspondence with Crypton on their Hatsune Miku doujin game which was asked to be removed from distribution 2 weeks ago. Crypton had actually approved their game for distribution again, though with a change in the game’s title as requested by Crypton.
Though, the biggest change is that Crypton has revised their official guidelines where it comes to doujin games. Previously, the guidelines said that all games were not allowed, but they’ve now completely removed that bit in the guidelines, and people are free to make and distribute doujin games as long as it doesn’t damage their product image.
The latest famitsu has revealed that yet another port of Higurashi is in the works once again, this time for the DS. They plan to release the game in 4 parts, with a total of 7 newly written chapters over the 4 games. The first volume will be released 26th June.
I don’t know how many renditions of Higurashi they actually want to release. I love Higurashi and all, but who’s going to read the same story so many times anyway!?
7 new chapters sounds great though, but it’s probably not worth buying 4 games at 3990 yen each for the new stuff…
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