Alicesoft

It's hard to believe it has been over three years since Tsuki-kan was first launched. What started as a small Type-Moon site is now... still a small Type-Moon site. Not that it matters, but it's good to see that the site has grown to be a fairly good TM fansite with quite a bit of useful information.

In anticipation of the imminent release of Mahou Tsukai no Yoru, some major updates have been done over at Tsuki-kan. Most of the stuff are under the hood, the HTML/CSS (and it shall stay that way, CMS-free!) was completely rewritten to make the site cleaner, easier to manage, and update, and many mistakes were corrected. Since Mahoyo is coming out at the end of September, there will be some big updates in September related to Mahoyo, so keep an eye out for those!

Stumbled across a new website called Eroge News, which, looking at its archive, was launched just recently. As its name implies, Eroge News focuses on eroge news. The site's simple, clean layout is really pleasing on the eyes too. Anyways, will keep an eye out on it.

On to some real news. Eroge News mentions that in the latest issue of Tech Gian, Alicesoft has officially announced Daiteikoku and Rance 8, the first coming out in spring 2011 and the latter soon to follow. Also, a new miko training/battle game called Shaman's Sanctuary that's coming out in November.

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).