Title: Katawa Shoujo Price: Free System(s): Windows, Mac, Linux Release Date: January 4, 2012 Publisher (Developer): Four Leaf Studios (Four Leaf Studios) ESRB Rating: N/A, 18 and over since it does have adult content, sexual situations and smoking. Pros: Realistic storylines and depictions of relationships, detailed character art, doesn’t in any way make fun of more »

Carpe Fulgar is kicking off 2012 with some great news. People who have become fans of Japanese doujin games thanks to Carpe Fulgar’s localizations and releases of Recettear and Chantelise will be pleased to know that Fortune Summoners is one step closer to its North American release. It will be showing up on January 17, more »

Are you afraid of the dark? If so, then don’t grab Corpse Party and play it without a light on. XSEED’s just picked up this surprisingly successful Japanese game that uses old school graphics, a creepy soundtrack, supernatural sound effects and a scary story to terrify players. You’ll have to stop by the PlayStation Store in Fall 2011 and download it to see how dark Corpse Party can get.

Corpse Party has a rather interesting history. It was originally a Team GrisGris PC doujin game from Japan, made with RPG maker…

Your sister Chante has been turned into a fairy due to a witch’s curse. Crud.

That’s what happens in Chantelise, the latest EasyGameStation doujin game translation from Carpe Fulgar. After five years of trying to find a cure, Elise and Chante find a strange village, called Town, surrounded by ruins that may hold the secrets to curing your sister. Well, if they could just get the oddball shop keeper to help you out.

Type-Moon is really pretty inspiring. The company started small, with two devoted people who loved what they were doing and wanted to share it with others. That dream lead to the indie developers becoming a major commercial force, creating products and original properties that inspired all kinds of sequels and offshoots. While the original games were adult-only products, most of the follow ups are appropriate for all audiences. In fact, two of the games inspired by its popular Fate/ series, Fate/unlimited codes and Fate/Extra, are available in English on North American PSPs…

Good news for Windows gamers who like unique games with flawless translations and localizations, as Chantelise is ready to appear! Carpe Fulgar has announced that work on the project is done. This means that anyone who wants a new action RPG with 3D environments and 2D character sprites and pick up Chantelise from their favorite downloadable distributor on July 29, 2011. Actually, only Steam and GamersGate have been confirmed carriers so far.

Chantelise is about Chante and Elise…

Back when 2011 first began, Carpe Fulgar hoped everyone’s year a little brighter for with a hint that Chantelise would appear this year. Now, the news is far brighter and more solid. If all goes well, we should be playing Chantelise before summer starts! Carpe Fulgar is working as hard as it can to try and make it an April, 2011 release.

Chantelise is a hack-and-slash dungeon crawler with 2D playable character sprites and 3D environments and enemies…

People in North America would normally never encounter a game like Recettear: An Item Shop’s Tale. It’s a Japanese doujin (indie) game, originally created by EasyGameStation in December, 2007. But this unique RPG with simulation elements (or is it a simulation with RPG elements?) caught the eye of new localization group Carpe Fulgar, which decided to take on the monumental task of an English release. Now, in 2010, Recettear proudly debuts and offers gamers a chance to play an incredibly unique game…

Doujin games are quite popular in Japan. They’re typically made for PCs and, while some will have anime or manga characters, many are original concepts. Recettear: An Item Shop’s Tale is one of those original games, and it’s also one of the very few Japanese doujin games to receive an official English translation and US release.

For $20, players can step into Recette’s shoes…

Have you ever played a video game so wonderful, that you wished it didn’t have to end? Perhaps the game’s original ending was unsatisfying and left you yearning to learn what happened to the hero. Maybe, you thought there was some sort of relationship between two characters in a game that wasn’t addressed, and you wondered if anything was really going on between them.

That’s where doujinshi, fan-made comics, come in.

Many people may instantly identify doujinshi as adults-only comics, looking at different character pairings that fans wanted or hoped to see. While the majority of doujinshi fall into this category, there are also plenty that are parodies of the original series, expand on the original story or act as gag comics, portraying the established characters in humorous situations…