GOG New Year 2024 Sale (386 VNs on sale until 5th of February) (www.gog.com)
GOG, the DRM-free game store, is having a new year sale until February 5th. It includes discounts up to 90% off, and encompasses over 4600 games and 386 visual novels....
Secret Kiss is Sweet and Tender 50% off (Yuri game) (www.gog.com)
Secret Kiss is Sweet and Tender is 50% off on GOG. It’s a yuri game. It includes the original Japanese script, which is probably a good thing, because there are reviews on GOG and MangaGamer that have nothing positive to say about the English translation. This is the second Medibang release I’ve seen like this, and I don’t...
Financial support for Lutris has decreased by 40% since 2020, not sustainable (www.patreon.com)
This is an excerpt from a post on the Lutris Patreon page a few months ago:...
Financial support for Lutris has decreased by 40% since 2020, not sustainable (www.patreon.com)
This is an excerpt from a post on the Lutris Patreon page a few months ago:...
Bizarre Steam Releases (Subahibi/Wonderful Everyday)
Subarashiki Hibi (Wonderful Everyday in English) was released by Frontwing in 2017 following a successful Kickstarter campaign. It was released on Steam and JAST....
VNDB now has a DRM field (vndb.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.comfysnug.space/post/432866...
VNDB now has a DRM field (vndb.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.comfysnug.space/post/432866...
VNDB now has a DRM field (vndb.org)
This feature proposal from the VNDB beta has made it into the live site! We can now start tagging VNs known to have DRM:...
DRM Field Support Added to VNDB Beta (vndb.org)
Yorhel added preliminary DRM support to the VNDB beta site on September 12th, 2023....
Firefox will support HEVC decoding on Microsoft Windows (bugzilla.mozilla.org)
We will support HEVC playback via Media Foundation transform (MFT)....
Google Launches Project IDX, A web-based IDE (idx.dev)
What if your dev experience was entirely in the cloud?...
Visual Novel Fest Sale on Steam (store.steampowered.com)
There are over 1,000 games tagged “Visual Novel” for sale on Steam until August 14th....
[Guide] Playing Visual Novels on GNU/Linux (lemmy.comfysnug.space)
We’ve been working on a guide to help players on all major GNU/Linux distributions play visual novels for the past few weeks. The main focus is on getting Japanese-only visual novels to work, because they tend to be much quirkier....
[Guide] Playing Visual Novels on GNU/Linux (wiki.comfysnug.space)
cross-posted from: lemmy.comfysnug.space/post/138679...
[Guide] Playing Visual Novels on GNU/Linux (wiki.comfysnug.space)
cross-posted from: lemmy.comfysnug.space/post/138679...
[Guide] Playing Visual Novels on GNU/Linux (wiki.comfysnug.space)
cross-posted from: lemmy.comfysnug.space/post/138679...
[Guide] Playing Visual Novels on GNU/Linux (wiki.comfysnug.space)
cross-posted from: lemmy.comfysnug.space/post/138679...
[Guide] Playing Visual Novels on GNU/Linux (wiki.comfysnug.space)
cross-posted from: lemmy.comfysnug.space/post/138679...
[Guide] Playing Visual Novels on GNU/Linux (wiki.comfysnug.space)
We’ve been working on a guide to help players on all major GNU/Linux distributions play visual novels for the past few weeks. This guide is designed to be used by both beginners and experts, with minimal need to touch the command line....
There's a 4-page manga about the Wikipedia mascot, Wikipe-tan (lemmy.comfysnug.space)
Wikipe-tan has been the (cutest) unofficial mascot for Wikipedia since 2006. This manga was posted to PIxiv and Wikipedia in 2010 by Kasuga, where he said this:...
[Guide] Reading Visual Novels in Japanese (wiki.comfysnug.space)
cross-posted from: lemmy.comfysnug.space/post/79947...
[Guide] Reading Visual Novels in Japanese (wiki.comfysnug.space)
Anime has slowly grown into a global phenomenon, but visual novels are far more niche. Many visual novels remain untouched by localization companies, and sometimes the localizations we do get are…lackluster....
Summer Sale on JAST (up to 80% off) (jastusa.com)
Over 200 games are discounted until July 9th on the JAST storefront....
[Suggestion] Adding a DRM Field to VNDB (vndb.org)
I'd like to see a DRM field in VNDB for every release, because I think it would be very useful in many player's purchasing decisions, so I've opened a thread asking for this feature. If I knew a VN wasn't encumbered by DRM, that would be a green light for me to make the purchase....