Shiny Days restore patch released + Installation guide

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Bugfix patch (v1.01e mirror)
(Un)official content restore patch
Walkthrough (Otaku Lair)
Alternate walkthrough (Google Doc)

After three long months the (un)official restore patch for Shiny Days has been released, finally giving fans the full uncensored experience.

[Review] Venus Blood Gaia: Taking Strategy Eroge to the Next Level

Venus Blood Gaia is a turn-based strategy erogame with deep gameplay, a surprisingly engaging story, and a healthy serving of tentacle ero and corruption.

Check out Ninetail's English campaign for Venus Blood Gaia on Kickstarter

This is a SFW mirror of the original article on LewdGamer.

[Preview][NTR] Oyako Rankan + English prologue patch + Let's Play video

Title: Oyako Rankan
Developer: AliceSoft
Tags: Avoidable netorare, strategy, high sexual content
EGS score: 79 (161 votes)
VNDB score: 7.9 (90 votes)

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English prologue patch (covers the intro and Day 1--thanks Ras Alhague!)
Let's Play Video (courtesy of CryingWestern, covers the full duration of the patch, 1hr 42min)
Walkthrough (very barebones)

Steam Greenlight for eroge Libra of the Vampire Princess

MiKandi Japan announces a Steam Greenlight and Kickstarter for a professional-quality eroge.  Plans for an uncut release are also confirmed!

Steam Greenlight

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MiKandi official press release

Getchu JP store page (NSFW)

Official JP site (NSFW)

How to uncensor the Steam version of Sakura Swim Club

Sakura Spirit developer Winged Cloud has unleashed their first full-blown erogame on Steam, Sakura Swim Club.  Read on to learn how to patch the ero in for the full experience.

[Review] Strip Battle Days

Strip Battle Days is a short rock-paper-scissors strip nukige that lets you strip, grope, and H your favorite characters from the School Days universe.

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MangaGamer's "lesbian sex game" Kindred Spirits goes viral

MangaGamer's Kindred Spirits by Liar-soft goes viral amidst excitement over a "lesbian sex game" being released on Steam uncut.

R.I.P. AGTH Code Database: A major Japanese text-hooking resource vanishes without a trace

The AGTH Code Database, a major Japanese text-hooking resource, has vanished from the Internet and no one even noticed.

ChuableSoft reaches out to English VN fans

Slice-of-life romance eroge developer ChuableSoft is connecting with English VN fans--bridging a long-standing gulf between Japanese eroge developers and the English fanbase.

Windows 10 VN Compatibility Community Project

A community project to document visual novel compatibility with Windows 10 in one place in a unified, easily-searchable format.

Windows 10 Visual Novel Compatibility List

Crowdfunding visual novel localization: An eroge enthusiast's perspective

Kickstarter is growing in popularity as a sandbox for jittery Japanese VN developers.  Are English consumers getting the short end of the stick?

H-RPG Kagura Douchuuki gets a Greenlight for Censorship (Editorial + Preview)

Rogue-like ero-RPG Kagura Douchuuki has been Greenlit on Steam for a censored English release, but minus its art it'll only be a shadow of its former self.

Erotic dungeon-crawler Lightning Warrior Raidy 3 strikes English shores

Genre: First-person dungeon-crawling RPG

Tags of interest: defeat rape, yuri, nukige

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JAST (digital)

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"For sale in Japan only": A Japanese developer's perspective on the eroge embargo

Ninetail developer Keimaru comments on the puzzling issue of technical support for foreign fans--despite industry rulings that forbid sales to them.

[Review] Cross Days: A trainwreck as enthralling as it is infuriating

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The School Days series is back--buggier and more gruesome than ever.

Makoto Itou is often vilified as the worst VN protagonist ever. These people clearly haven't played Cross Days.

Aselia the Eternal 3 teased - in English!

Everlasting teases a third chapter in the Aselia the Eternal series. Will it live up to its predecessors?

Why I endorse JAST’s censorship of Shiny Days

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JAST USA is censoring Shiny Days, but angry fans should think twice before lashing out at JAST. JAST promises a solution that should satisfy everyone.

Also see: Shiny Days restore patch released + Installation guide

Mangagamer partners with Alicesoft to prevent the Rance series from being released in English

Mangagamer dashes the hopes of Alicesoft fans by licensing their titles for official release in English.

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JAST’s failure to market Seinarukana as an RPG could doom English H-RPGs

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Seinarukana is a visual novel style RPG from JAST USA with a lot of potential, but needs a Steam release and reviews on major RPG sites to reach fans.