An Arcana Famiglia TV anime series, based on last year's otome game of the same title, has just been announced for a Summer (i.e. July) 2012 debut in Japan, with studio J.C. Staff doing the animation. The original girls-oriented visual novel was developed for the PSP by HuneX, and it was released in Japan by Comfort, last October.



In Arcana Famiglia: La storia della Arcana Famiglia, players take on the role of a heroine who spent her childhood days in a lonely, remote place with her mother, Sumire, and her servant, Luca. The Christmas she turned 16, she was invited to go and live together with (...)

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Conception: Please Have My Baby!! is a fantasy school / romance RPG in which you must... *gasp*... save the world by bonding and having children with 12 maidens. You may know it already, since word about it first came to light last autumn. But now, its makers from Spike are finally ready to announce its release date: April 26, on the PSP by the way. They also detailed some of the game's characters and cast - you can read about them over on CR, or if you just want to see some pics, you need not stray any farther than the local gallery.



Last year's web-anime +Tic Elder Sister might be continuing with more episodes, or maybe even a new, full-fledged anime series - given some recent comments made by (...)

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Aside from the upcoming Accel World TV anime series that's starting this April, another new media branching based on Reki Kawahara's light novels was announced by Namco Bandai. You guessed: an Accel World game! A strategy one, it would appear, currently in development for the PlayStation 3 and PSP. Since details are non-existant at this time, we'll just have to do with a gallery update featuring the "future teen" story's sweet Kuroyukihime.



In other gaming news, Strike Witches: Shirogane no Tsubasa - that Xbox 360 side-scrolling shooter from 2010 - is getting a PSP version, according to (...)

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The kids' anime franchise Jewelpet grows even stronger this year, with not only its 4th TV anime series, titled Jewelpet Kira Deco!, but also the first Jewelpet Movie. The new TV season will be airing in Japan from April 17, and the movie's premiere is planned there for August 11, as a double-feature with another new anime film - Onegai My Melody Yuu & Ai.



A PSP game based on the Phi Brain anime series is being announced for release this May, via a newly opened website. Arc System Works (Guilty Gear, BlazBlue) is developing (...)

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The OVA adaptation ToHeart2 Dungeon Travelers suffered a slight delay - or at least its second volume did. While the first one is still set for release this February 22, the second volume has been pushed back to Summer 2012 (from its original schedule of March 21). The OVA is based on last year's spin-off game developed by Aquaplus for the PSP, and featuring characters from the ToHeart2 franchise in a fantasy dungeon role-playing game.



The PS3 port Maji de Watashi ni Koishinasai!! R has been delayed until further notice, so it will miss its previously planned release date of February 23. (...)

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As Type-Moon's long-awaited new visual novel, Mahoutsukai no Yoru, is nearing its release this April 12, the Japanese studio is now offering a demo version for download on the game's official website - check the "Special" section. An English fan-translation is also available, already, and you can grab it from a certain post, on a certain Russian forum.



The once-cancelled Dantalian no Shoka OVA, that was meant to follow last year's TV anime, has resurfaced as a new bundle. This time, it's being planed for release (...)

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Some interesting gaming news bits this morning, and to start off with the bad one - the PS3 and PSP (non-ero) versions of Fortune Arterial, which were supposed to come out later this year, have been cancelled due to "various reasons" cited by developer August and publisher Kadokawa Shoten. The game was originally released for the PC in 2008, and was adapted into a TV anime last autumn plus an OVA earlier this year.



Moving on to brighter topics, a Famitsu report (via Andriasang) is finally clearing up (...)

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A wee-bit of controversy surrounding the recently-released PS3 fantasy RPG Atelier Meruru started a couple of days ago, when Japan's Computer Entertainment Rating Organization (CERO) retracted the game's "A" rating (for All ages), under which it initially shipped back on June 23. By now, however, the controversy is pretty much over, as CERO has already changed the rating to "B" (for ages 12 and up) due to traces of "sexual" content. Developer Gust admitted that the game documentation it first submitted to CERO was incomplete, so for a little while it had to put further shipments of Atelier Meruru on hold. The game's actual contents remain unchanged, though.



The anime adaptation Another, which was announced last winter as a project based on (...)

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A twitter update last night has finally narrowed down the North American release timeframe for Final Fantasy XIII-2 to January 2012 - just a short month after the game's Japanese release, planned for this December. Both its PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions are expected to be out at that time, so as the update concludes: "Be excited!"... or else!



Personally, I can do without the excitement. But for those of you who happen to be (...)

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Through a series of reports that began emerging earlier this month, a new Gundam anime project has quickly been revealing itself, as a co-production between the series' traditional studio Sunrise and... game developer Level-5, whose president Akihiro Hino is in charge of the story for this 8th incarnation of the long-running Gundam franchise. The project - titled Mobile Suit Gundam AGE - is being created as a TV anime series that's set to begin airing in Japan from October 2011.



Today's latest novelties about the project are twofold. First, it turns out that Level-5 is not only creating the story for the anime, but also a Gundam AGE RPG of some sort. (...)

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