Video by Matt S. Just as a quick note: While this video discusses Tokyo Mirage Sessions, I don’t have any footage of that, so instead I’ve just pulled together a whole lot of fan service game footage, but that stuff is fun. The whole “censorship” debate has blown up a…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. What an odyssey this has been. Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of DANA was released on PlayStation 4, with a PC release expected soon after. But then the nightmares started for publisher, NISA. A localisation so controversial the team needed to go back and re-localise from scratch. Issue…
Read MoreWe can’t stop talking about Person 5, it seems. This past week, there’s been a lot of criticism over the game’s localisation, so the DDNet team decided to discuss that this week, and more generally how localisation should work, versus how people think it does. We also have a good…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. This news really made my day. Bandai Namco’s promising VR character interaction simulator, Summer Lesson, is actually getting a release in English! For those of you who haven’t heard of the game, this was one of the earliest PlayStation VR games that was announced. In Summer…
Read MoreDespite the superb sales figures, the recent Fire Emblem game has been the subject of some incredibly fierce controversy. The reason for that controversy is that Nintendo, when localising the game, decided to engage in some self-censorship of the material, removing some parts of the game, and changing the dialogue,…
Read MoreIt’s no secret to anyone that here at Digitally Downloaded, we love Japanese content. From manga to video games to anime, there is something for everyone available worldwide. Two years ago, the Sekai Project was (officially) born. The company brings Eastern content to Western audiences while also focuses on aiding…
Read MoreIf you want an English version of the upcoming visual novel Libra of the Vampire Princess, now’s the time to act! MiKandi Japan and XERO have launched the Kickstarter campaign to bring the English release of the PC game to the masses, and trust me when I say it’s worth…
Read MoreNews by Clark A. It’s one thing to see a localisation for a modern retro-style 2D shooter on a home console. It’s another matter entirely to see one –for the typically starved PS3, mind you– rear its head just two weeks after the Japanese launch date. Indeed, UFO Interactive will…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Well, those rumours that we reported on not long ago have panned out to be true; card-battling strategy game, Monster Monpiece, is indeed heading out to the west. This is something that we never thought would happen, given Monster Monpiece’s risque premise, and it’s quite an…
Read MoreJust yesterday we reported that NISA is localising Mugen Souls Z for the western market in 2014. It has backed that news up today with even more exciting news; Hyperdimension Neptunia PP on the PlayStation Vita is getting a western localisation. This game from our buddies at Compile Heart and…
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