Sometimes Japanese games, particularly PC visual novels, won’t work on computers using other (non-Japanese) languages. Or, they may run but show text incorrectly (even if you’re using a translation patch). You may be able to change the region depending on your version of Windows, but this causes its own issues. Locale Emulator can almost always […]
There are so many great characters in visual novels who don’t get the chance to be in the spotlight. While fandiscs or expanded versions occasionally fill the void (even if we don’t always get them in English), more often than not we’re left wanting. So why not take the chance to highlight a few of […]
As those of you who are members of our Discord or perhaps in other shared communities may have heard, I visited Tokyo in Japan. While I certainly checked out a lot of the cultural sites, I also spent far too much time and money picking up anime figures and visual novels. In some ways, this felt […]
If you’ve been into visual novels for a while, you’ve probably heard of Da Capo. Even if you’ve not, you may have heard of the upcoming remake D.C. ~Da Capo~ Re:tune, which is Japan-only as far as we know, but I’m personally really hoping it gets an English release. But have you heard of T.P. […]
From huge titles like Final Fantasy VII Rebirth to the more niche indie ones like Himegashima Island, 2024 has seen a ton of releases. As usual, our team has gone through everything we’ve played this year, and many of us have chosen our Game of the Year 2024 to tell you a little about. Much […]
2024 has had quite a few English visual novel releases, including some particularly high-profile ones. The NookGaming team has read quite a few of them between us and wants to highlight some of the ones that stood out as Top Visual Novels of 2024 and mention a few that we’re looking forward to with an […]
Want to check out some retro games? A friend of mine asked me this and suggested that we take a trip over to the Black Country Games Fair on the outskirts of Wolverhampton in the West Midlands in England. Can You See In The Dark? My first impression was less than stellar. The Black Country […]
It’s that time of year again when ghosts and ghouls hit peak relevancy, children hound you for free candy, and people in cheap fancy dress make decisions they’ll regret come November. For Halloween homebodies looking for something spooky to liven up All Hallows Eve, we have NookGaming’s Halloween Highlights. Yofukashi no Uta / Call of […]
FuRyu Corporation is a Japanese game developer who is perhaps best known in the West for developing and/or publishing various JRPGs such as The Alliance Alive and Crymachina. With the English release of FuRyu’s newest game REYNATIS coming out soon, we had the opportunity to interview several of the creators who worked on REYNATIS regarding […]
The UK is sometimes lacking when it comes to conventions and similar events, so I was surprised to find that a new event was being set up here. VeXpo 2024 is the UK’s first VTuber expo. We made our way to the NEC in Birmingham to check it out. Full of Talent The main attraction […]