Hyperdimension Neptunia is clearly an important and commercially successful franchise for Compile Heart and Idea Factory. After three “main” JRPG releases on the PlayStation 3, ports of all three to the PlayStation Vita, and the first PC release in the franchise, we’ve also seen the publisher experiment with bringing the…
Read MoreIdea Factory International has unleashed a bunch of new English screenshots for two of its upcoming games: Omega Quintet and Hyperdimension Neptunia U: Action Unleased. Omega Quintet Omega Quintet is a heavily music-based game, as the name suggests. Also as the name suggests, there are five heroines along on the…
Read MoreThe good folk at Idea Factory International are busy indeed. Just a few months after the release of Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth 2, we’ll be playing the remake of the third. That’s right, Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth3: V Generation is launching in Summer (that’s Winter, for those of us in the southern…
Read MoreNews by Jedediah H. When my musical instructor suggested that my classmates and I practice our Solfège for the sake of keeping our singing voices continuously tempered and prepared, I never thought that my soothing, celestial-kisses-to-the-ear baritone could be used to save the world from evil because, well, reality kind…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. I really enjoyed Hyperdimension Neptunia RE;Birth 1 on the PlayStation Vita. In fact, it’s one of my favourite PlayStation Vita games. Apparently it has been a success, because Idea Factory is remaking the second (Hyperdimension Neptunia RE;Birth 2: Sister’s Generation) for the PlayStation Vita as well.…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I am so very glad that Idea Factory and Compile Heart saw fit to remake the original Hyperdimension Neptunia. The genesis for the weird and wonderful adventures that Nep-Nep and her strange friends go on is an important game for anyone who enjoyed the sequels. After…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Idea Factory excited fans when it revealed that it was indeed localising ultra-niche card battler Monster Monpiece for the west. Then Idea Factory annoyed fans by admitting that it was doing a bit of self censorship, with a fair portion of the Japanese game’s art being…
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 MoreNews by Matt S. Monster Monpiece is a game from Compile Heart/ Idea Factory that I don’t think anyone would have expected to see localised. After all. It’s a game that involves holding your Vita lengthways, and rubbing both the top and bottom touch screens vigorously to power up female…
Read MoreArticle by Matt S. It’s a piece of news that was largely overlooked by the mainstream games press: Idea Factory, better known in the west as “the owner of that Compile Heart developer that makes those weird Hyperdimension Neptunia games,” has set up an office in the US. For fans…
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