A 2008 movie on Niconico Douga was dug up by users and buzzed now in Japanese. It is just the play movie of the popular Playstation 3 racing game Gran Tourismo 5(GT5), but displayed on very old Hitach carbon tube monochrome TV.

via Internet Watch

Tags: Japan by Akky Akimoto
No Comments »

Naver LINE is down after the midnight, October 31st. The official’s Twitter account says,

https://twitter.com/NAVER_LINE/status/263313573558751233

“All functions of both Apps and PC versions LINE are not working now. We are investigating now and will let you know as soon as we recover.”

at 01:17 a.m.

Twitter’s top trends in Japan now ranks “Line”, though 6 of top 10 are Halloween related terms.

Line’s Facebook page is providing the same information in English.

Naver Japan recently announced [J] the number of LINE users exceeded 70 million, 32 million of which are in its homeland, Japan.

[Update] The recovery was announced at 2:28 a.m.

https://twitter.com/NAVER_LINE/status/263331639445307392

Tags: Japan, News by Akky Akimoto
No Comments »

A-Team, Inc. [J] has released “Ryouki Dasshutsu Game Murder Room” [J] (seeking the bizarre escape game murder room).  Both the iOS and Android versions are free for download.

“Ryouki Dasshutsu Game Murder Room” is a horror visual novel made by the team that develops the “Dasshutsu Shoujo Lie Series” (escape young lady Lie series).  The player becomes a protagonist locked up in a room with a series of “butcher” murderer demons, uses quick wits and ideas to avert crises that come one after another, solves puzzles in the room, and aims to escape safely.

Ryouki Dasshutsu Game Murder Room [J]
Free
Ateam Inc. [J]

Android version here [J]

Translation authorized by VSMedia

Tags: VSMedia by Chiho Komoriya
No Comments »

Colopl Inc. [J] has announced that the number of users of their location based game “Colopl” has reached 3 million.  This is the number of already withdrawn users subtracted from the number of registered users.

“Colopl” was opened for service in November of 2010 as the world’s first location game specialized platform.  Currently they are offering 14 location game application titles in all, including 3 titles from colopl starting with “Colony Life,” as well as 11 titles run by LAP (Colopl’s partner businesses).  Among the others, the warring states period of Japan card battle location game “Senkoku Iroha” (Warring States Fundamentals) claims over 100,000 users on its own, and games other than their signature title “Colony Life” also seem favorable.  Colopl moving forward carries the mission of “Entertainment in Real Life,” and they are continuing to challenge to find ways to offer fun entertainment to make people’s daily life more fun.

Translation authorized by VSMedia

Tags: Social game, VSMedia by Chiho Komoriya
No Comments »

Kuusoukagaku Inc. [J] (Fantasy Science Inc.) has released Tsukuri.com [J] (Make.com), an Android application that lets you make your own visual novel.

“Tsukuri.com” is an application where you can make an original visual novel which runs on Android, setting items, characters, and scenery with pictures taken on your smartphone.  The app itself is free, and it charges a fee according to the capacity and functions used.  SNS functions are also in the works for the next version up, and in addition to being able to make exchanges with user peers through the games you made, the edit function will also be enhanced.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_novel

(C)Kuusoukagaku Corp.

Translation authorized by VSMedia

Tags: Android, VSMedia by Chiho Komoriya
No Comments »