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July 2010

Alicesoft Website Japan Only, Type-Moon and Amasia Box

Submitted by gum on Tue, 07/27/2010 - 02:46
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It would seem that the Alicesoft has blocked all foreign IP addresses from accessing its website, going to their site returns a "Japan Only" message...

This is not the first case where a Japanese eroge maker has implemented such IP block, and there were already talks of Alicesoft doing something like this. With Daiteikoku possibly seeing a 2010 release (or early 2011), this seem like a logical move for Alicesoft (some are saying Alicesoft did this in preparation of release new information on Daiteikoku).

Bye Bye Forum, Hello Tidbits

Submitted by gum on Mon, 07/26/2010 - 02:54
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Anyone who bothered to browse our old BBS knows how it's a spam disaster... to turn it into something more useful, we decided to bring back the Tidbits! Tidbits was a feature mG had in its early days, where instead of full-blown posts, we'd post interesting one-liners and links, so it's shorter than regular posts but is updated much more frequently. It was nuked a while ago when we upgraded the site.

The difference now is that it should be much easier to post tidbits thanks to WordPress and P2. Hopefully it can turn into something useful.

Fate/Extra Extravaganza, the Year of Type-Moon

Submitted by gum on Sun, 07/25/2010 - 02:03
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This is a great year to be a Type-Moon fan. Why? First and foremost, Mahou Tsukai no Yoru is coming out on September 30th (the Type-Moon website got a facelift as well), which just happens to be the same day that the DVD of the Unlimited Blade Works film is released, coincidence? Either way, it has been five years since the last major original Type-Moon product, Fate/hollow ataraxia (well, it technically was still just a fandisc, but I think its quality and size merits this) hit the stores, no more milking their existing properties (okay, so the Rakkyo films were a nice treat), yay!

According to Nasu, there will be three parts to Mahoyo. Part one, the one that will come out this September, is based on the story written by Nasu before Tsukihime, while the next two parts will be all new content. Looking at Type-Moon's past release record, I wonder how long it'll be before the fans can finally see the last part, that, and Tsukihime 2... (considering there are still fans patiently waiting for news of DDD volume 3).

Transformice, More than Meet the Eye

Submitted by gum on Tue, 07/20/2010 - 01:52
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Nothing interesting happening lately, should be updating more frequently... In other news, a little game called Transformice seems to have caught the eyes of bored Internet users everywhere.

In a nutshell, Transformice is a multiplayer Flash game where in each level the players try to get to the cheese and bring it back to their hole. Sometimes it's impossible to reach the cheese, fortunately, in each level a player or two (usually the top ranked ones from last level) are assigned to be the shamans, which can summon various tools to help their fellow mice.