As you can see, we're in the midst of a redesign. I believe we'll be staying put for the immediate future, so I'll be tweaking some things around here in a continued effort to bring you guys a better gaming site. The absolute basic things you need to know is that the Media page is now bigger, since it now houses the 'Fiction' section of the site. This is due to me accidentally deleting the Fiction page and being too lazy to recreate it. I apologize for nothing.
Also the carousel doesn't work with this particular theme, so now everything is kind of married into one blog. The sidebar will keep track of the latest updates and what not and will serve the same basic function, but with me just not updating the thing as constantly as necessary, especially now in the final weeks of the year, I figured it would be a great time to experiment with the format. If things get too messy, we can always switch back and something tells me the current theme will be updated soon enough to include a carousel menu system so I'm happy to sit back and wait on that one for now.
Otome Week is FINALLY upon us! After several delays, we are pretty much ready to get started in what will be a journey NO ONE will get until the final chapter is written and closed. We roll out with a very special First Impression of SakeVisual's Backstage Pass and will end with the debut of something that I have had a lot of fun writing and taping: The AMG Reviews. Hopefully you will laugh along with me and learn a little something about the genre that you may not have known, thanks to the thought coming from the mind of a relatively average gamer. We'll see this coming week.
And it will most likely barely dent the mad rush to finish as many reviews as I possibly can before Christmas. I still have one hell of a backlog to go but progress is being made. Just keep an eye on Twitter as a whittle down the list!
And finally, December means it's nominating time for the 2013 Best Ofs! Can you believe it's been nearly a year since we last came together on Twitter to celebrate the insanity that is EVNs? This year we are just finishing up mapping out the last few categories, but the rules remain the same! The clock starts NOW for everyone to catch up on this year's releases (including me) and we all have until December 31st (New Year's Eve) to make nominations. In that same vein, developers have until that time to release a project for it to be considered for nomination. The full list of rules and regs can be digested over on the Best Ofs section of the site along with previous winners and categories.
This way, everything in the year will be covered without any potential negative fallout. But, along with putting up the Christmas Tree, there is a tradition on the site for December that will not be ignored. For those of you new to this little corner of the internet, I make the first nomination for the top prize, English Visual Novel of the Year, at the beginning of December. Last year it was Katawa Shoujo and before that it was Kansei. So my first nomination is pretty vital to the entire process...like the first ant to find food in the frozen tundra.
So, who's the first nominee? Well, if you've followed this site this year, it won't be too much of a surprise. The reveal is under the cut!