Recently, Siliconera had a chance to interview JAST USA founder, Peter Payne, also responsible for founding online retailer, Jlist. One of Payne’s primary jobs for the past several years has involved ...

While the PlayStation Vita is currently the best place to play visual novels (other than PC, obviously), the PlayStation 4 has been slowly building a very solid line-up. Last week that library grew ...

Mohamed from Egypt has been covering Japanese and indie games for more than 5 years for local and international outlets. He is very interested in the Japanese language and culture, and is a long term ...

Ashish Walia is a writer, animator, designer, and, most importantly, a gamer. He's a part of Valnet, Inc, writing for TheGamer.com and GameRant.com. He's a Bachelor of Arts and is very keen on doing ...

Living near Paris, Iyane (He/Him) is mainly covering Japanese media on DualShockers. He started his writing career in 2018 after being scouted for his blogging and talent for live-translating Japanese ...

428: Shibuya Scramble is coming to PlayStation 4 and Windows PC next year, Spike Chunsoft announced during Game Developers Conference. When it arrives next spring, it will mark the first time the ...

Skeith has been a gamer for over two decades now and has decided to take pen to paper for Hardcore Gamer. Capable of playing games at incredible speeds, you can rely on them to write about them in ...

When you think of the term “visual novel,” you probably think of dating simulators stuffed full of anime tropes and hentai scenes. I am here to convince you that this is wrong. See, there are visual ...

This has been a year full of blockbuster game releases, leading to the common refrain that 2023 might be one of the best years ever for games. Most of that attention has naturally been fixed on the ...

Marcus Estrada is a Contributor from USA writing for the Digital Publication Hardcore Gamer. His favorite genres include horror, visual novel, rhythm and platformer. If you love visual novels then you ...

AIR has been regarded by the Japanese visual novel community as one of the classics that defined the genre the most. Its theme song “Tori no Uta,” which had appeared since the title’s initial release ...