About a year ago, Aksys Games (the same people who brought us BLAZBLUE and 999) put up a poll on their website. The poll asked two simple questions: 1) If we released an Otome game (a specific type of visual novel where you play as a female trying to snag a man), would you buy it? 2) Pick from a list of Otome games which you’d be most interested in… The...

Photo Source: Offbeat Bride When I was seventeen, at the provocation of a social studies teacher, I defied convention and sat at every single lunch table over the span of the school year. I actually outpaced the calendar year and was able to circle around 3 or 4 times. I repeated this social experiment my senior year, priding myself on my ability to fit into any...

For any MMORPG to be any good at all, it has to do so many things right and rise above the chatter of endless free-to-play MMOs. Such a task seems largely impossible. Few companies have done it with any success. But if there’s one studio that really has a shot at competing with Blizzard’s trump card WORLD OF WARCRAFT, it’s BioWare. And their MMO...

If you like games and you get on the Internet, you’ve probably witnessed the recent shit storm surrounding BioWare employee Jennifer Hepler. Quick recap: in an interview from 2006 (talk about digging up the past), Ms. Hepler suggests that since many games allow you to skip story cut scenes, they should also allow people who really dig the story (and only the...

Today, we’re devoting a whole episode to STAR WARS: THE OLD REPUBLIC. In case you’ve buried your head in the sand for the last six years, it’s an MMORPG from BioWare / EA / LucasArts. It’s been in development since 2006 and only came out in the last few months. And it’s kind really amazing. In the first part of the episode, we interview...