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Adult-themed Game developer/publisher ILLUSION Closes its doors

Cg writes: For those who enjoy adult themed gaming, the recent news that Japanese developer Illusion Software will be closing its doors in the coming month hits hard. A post on Steam suggests that all activity will end on August 18, 2023 at 10:00 (Japan time). This means gems such as VR Kanojo and Honey Select will no longer be available to purchase in the West, via Steam or otherwise. Illusion’s games have also been compatible with Steam VR, so it will be a shame for these to no-longer be available.

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TheEnigma313307d ago

Good. No need to play this nonsense. Be creative and put thought into making real games.

Godmars290307d ago (Edited 307d ago )

Either funny or just odd that you think this is about gaming...

Also not like if what they've made still sells, another company wont buy their "games". That another company, with all the same people, isn't going to pop up over night.

Huey_My_D_Long307d ago

Booo. I said Booo. Boooooooooooooo
I'll make sure I grab Honey Select. and I'll message you my thoughts and prayers on it.

ChiefofLoliPolice307d ago

The type of games people enjoy is subjective. When you say "no need to play this nonsense" that's quite arrogant of you to say. Not everyone likes your idea of "real games".

anast307d ago

No need to worry about what other people like.

1Victor307d ago

“No need to play this nonsense. Be creative and put thought into making real games.”
Do you realize that because of games like those we don’t have to see females with triangles boobs like Lara on tomb raider.
Oh wait you’re too young for that 🤷🏿

TheEnigma313306d ago

I'm probably older than you. No need for nonsense like i said. Get a real woman

Phoenix76306d ago

Oh man, I miss Sam Fox's Strip Poker for zx48 and c64 lol

1Victor306d ago

“I'm probably older than you. No need for nonsense like i said. Get a real woman”

A nice childish dodge you got there, gramps I don’t see anything in response to my comment except for childish attempt to offend 🤷🏿.
Get a real life and stop projecting your inferiority onto others, there’s some good psychologists online that can help you if you let them.
Conversation is over do not expect any response I do not feel like doing your parents job at educating you.

Like I said it’s a lost for the industry regardless of the game genre when a game studio closes down

ThEusAisPoisonous306d ago

No, it’s not a loss in the slightest.

CrimsonWing69306d ago

I’m sure there’s idiots that think games you play are nonsense. Don’t be like them.

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FunAndGun307d ago

Oh no, the creeps will have to find new digital fantasies.

ManMarmalade307d ago

The internet is mostly porn anyways haha

anast307d ago

We got ourselves a fine Baptist preacher here...

anast306d ago

@ Black Tiger

It seems. It's the other way around.

anast306d ago

@ Enigma

You could start a self help YT channel for guys and make millions.

TheEnigma313306d ago

the need to go talk to real women

Huey_My_D_Long306d ago (Edited 306d ago )

I'm sure you got women lined up waiting for you to get done posturing to other people on the comment section of a gaming news site..
"Why isn't Enigma talking to us or whispering sweet "peg me softly" into our ears, guess he has better people to impress"
Guess what real ladies who are definitely real, He does and he failed

VincentVanBro306d ago

This guy is pretending he hasn't look at porn before 🤣

Bhuahahaha306d ago (Edited 306d ago )

ahahah the funny part is those guys (the one that tell you to stop watching porn or play eroge), think the people that already have a GF or is married doesnt look at porn anymore 😁😂 a bunch of pretenders 😂😁😂

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Huey_My_D_Long307d ago

Say what yall want but nobody had H simulators like these guys did.

MadLad307d ago

How will the games industry continue now?

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Is 2K Games actually making FIFA 25, the next “best” entry yet?

FIFA president Gianni Infantino teases the future of FIFA games in a brand-new interview, and NBA 2K24 studio 2K Games might be behind it.

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Cacabunga21h ago(Edited 21h ago)

I truly hope so.. day one buy

Ninver20h ago

Time for a change. Football games haven't evolved much.

Cacabunga19h ago

It’s tough when there is no competition

Abear2113h ago

There’s PES and now we’ll have FC25 and FIFA so yes, but it is no longer true, shit is about to get real!

Now if we only had two viable options for Basketball and American football we’d be on to something.

MrNinosan8h ago

@Abear21
PES didn't exist since 2020, and the rebranded eFootball is crap.

porkChop5h ago

If what we've heard is true, the reason FIFA games don't change is literally because of FIFA itself rejecting nearly every pitch for new features and mechanics.

anast18h ago(Edited 18h ago)

The barber shop and roulette wheel are going to be awesome.

Abear2113h ago

Pay to win is the new free to play

CrimsonWing6918h ago(Edited 18h ago)

It’ll be monetized to all hell, regardless

StormSnooper17h ago(Edited 17h ago)

Hmmm, let’s see how they do. If they riddle it with microtransactions, hell no. Otherwise, I’m excited.

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Sorry George Miller, but you’re wrong about the Mad Max game

George Miller expressed dismay toward the 2015 Mad Max game recently, but Avalanche Studios' take on the lore is still so good to this day.

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lelo2play1d 12h ago

Mad Max is a good game... George Miller should STFU.

Old_Scout11h ago

He didn't say it wasn't good. Maybe you should take your own advice and look past the articles misleading headline. Here's the actual quote. “wasn’t as good as we wanted it to, it wasn’t in our hands.” That is all he said about it.

S2Killinit8h ago(Edited 8h ago)

In my opinion the guy himself Is pretty mediocre, so I dont like how he talks as if he’s something special. I dont think he would know a good game if it hit him in the face.

StormSnooper7h ago(Edited 7h ago)

If George Miller had good taste he wouldn’t be wearing those ridiculous glasses.

-Foxtrot1d 7h ago

I think the funny thing is if Kojima made a Mad Max game it would be so trippy and "out there" I don't think it would feel like Mad Max by the time he's done with it. This is why he's better off with original new IPs.

Kojima seems like a buzz word these film directors use because he's probably the only big name they've heard from the gaming industry.

Wretchedstain1d 2h ago

Article is correct in my opinion, Miller is wrong. That Death Stranding II trailer is bonkers, looking forward to that in itself.

And I agree, unless Mr Kojima wants to change his tune, or laughably, be told what to do, you're right, it wouldn't be Mad Max or close.

porkChop1d 1h ago

Yup, Kojima really doesn't suit Mad Max. Avalanche did a great job though. It looked, felt, and played like what I'd expect from a Mad Max game. I really enjoyed my time with it, and the sand storms were handled incredibly well.

jznrpg9h ago

I think Kojima could definitely make a great Mad Max game.

SubtilizZer6h ago

I disagree… I don’t want to see Kojima do Mad Max or whatever… But I disagree with your take. Kojima is first a huge fan of film. I think saying he wouldn’t be able to stick to the lore of the world that was built is kinda crazy.

I’m sure he would be able to stick to the creative confines of the source material fairly well. Chances are he’s a huge fan.

I’m sure he’s a bit of a”buzzword” sure but I’m willing to bet it’s mutual respect for his work as well.

TheGamingHounds1d 1h ago

I never played it but the recent buzz around Mad Max has piqued my interest. Will check it out this year for sure

maelstromb1d ago (Edited 1d ago )

MM is not a perfect game by any means as it was held back by lots of repetitious, standard open-world copy and paste missions, but the devs SO perfectly captured the world, atmosphere, lore and brutality. It also just so happens to boast one of THE best photo modes out there and some of the most impressive explosions I've ever seen in a game to date. The car combat is of course another impressive standout, both vicious and fun. MM is a game which I have revisited multiple times since its release, and now having just seen Furiosa, I can feel it calling me back again.

There's a ton to love there, but I think you'll pickup on the areas where the devs struggled likely due to reigning in the scope, budget and time constraints, leading to an incredibly fun, albeit uneven experience. Though, as mentioned, it's absolutely a game worth experiencing once, and I truly hope you enjoy it. The game really does deserve a sequel.

victorMaje23h ago

Word for word. Exactly this. A lot of fun to be had in there. A true Mad Max game. Sequel can’t come soon enough.

gigoran814h ago

and the fact that they originally had an American voice actor until everyone kicked up a big stink about it?

maelstromb1d ago

Honestly, Kojima would do the game justice, but given his studio's current workload, it's a bit far flung. I could much rather see Bend Studios (Days Gone dev) doing a Mad Max follow-up. I'm playing through DG right now for the first time and I see lots of similarities between the games to where imo Bend could develop an impressive MM sequel.

jznrpg9h ago

Bend does makes sense. But I’d rather they made Days Gone 2 (no multiplayer of course) as I really like the motorcycle and the hordes of zombies was a lot of fun.

VersusDMC1d ago

While i like the Mad Max game and think it's underrated...i don't know why people are mad at George Miller for not liking the game based on the IP he created. Especially since a lot of people hated it at release as well looking at that 69% metacritic.

-Foxtrot19h ago

I think the issue is the studio was told by higher ups and most likely himself to make something linear yet when they got a first look at it they didn’t like it and wanted something open world

The head guy was basically like “you’ve just hired an open world dev and forced them to do a linear game yet now you want open world which has just wasted a year of development which we could have done from the start”

I think that’s why people are p****** because of the context the lead dev at Avalanche has given us.

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Neil Druckmann clarifies true intent of new Naughty Dog game comments

Following a recent interview with Sony, Naughty Dog head Neil Druckmann claims the original intent was “unfortunately lost” in the process.

just_looken1d 4h ago

He can take dog shit put it in a oven with seasoning then call it waistland cookies the sony fans will pay $40 a cookie give them a medal of cooking.

No mater what trash this sobs puts out/talks about it will sell.

The true fact in the 8 years sense uncharted 4 his first time in the main seat to a point all this "amazing" team did was get 2 dudes to fuck in a van then destroy a franchise they never created.

But being a port studio they are decent at they should keep in there lane at being just that a glorified port studio.

fr0sty1d 3h ago

Salty Bots... gotta love it.

just_looken1d 2h ago

@frosty

Over what? naught dog under his command is a glorified port team tlou2 was mostly tlou 1 asset's with the same game play loop but forced a trans down your throat.

I would gladly help pay for this blight and his team to get removed from gaming in general.

fr0sty23h ago

Seeing a LGBT person exist in a work of fiction isn't "forcing them down your throat". Nobody is forcing you to play it. Nobody is forcing you to agree with it. If you think that just seeing a LGBT person exist is "force", it sounds like they make you very uncomfortable, and maybe you need to be doing some serious reflecting on exactly why... looks to me like you're suppressing something with all that fear.

just_looken22h ago

@fro

When i think of the last of us i think of a group of survivors crossing the apocalypse wasteland with a growing bond between 2 people that end up with Joel making ellie his new daughter.

Then you fire up the 2nd one bang joel is dead oh that comic series? bang dead

Oh you want to continue all that we grew in the first one? na f that toss it in the trash

Now here is a trans woman so strong superboy would blush go out there kill all what made tlou1 then halfway get a forced sex scene that you can not skip between 2 dudes.

The gameplay? just like the first game the combat/backpack system crafting sytem? 0 changes/improvements.

I could go on but lets face it they copy pasted that tlou 1 assets bin a shit ton of times.

There is nothing on the box or the ads or anything before the game that said you would going to spend most of the game controlling a new trans character that has no ties to anything of the first game the only existence was to kill what the first game made.

Oh but hey there is a mp mode coming out before 2022 wait what is that? oh we made it its own game then cancelled it now go but the game again as we port it a few times.

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

mkis00721h ago(Edited 21h ago)

What has Straley or Henig released since they left ND? Not a thing! stop scapegoating! Which of them is credited with co-writing a majorly successful show?

just_looken20h ago

@mkis007

You bring up Bruce Straley really? someone that gave us 4 generations of amazing games and was there in the creation of 4 legendary franchises but was tossed in the trash for the pos niel druckmann not 7? years ago

So yeah in those 7? years you right all he has done is get 2 awards one is a game award for a puzzle game he made oh boy right like for fuck sake's all niel has done is one game that was a overhyped fan boy orgasm underneath all that ps jizz was just a typical 5/10 game.

Then you drag Amy Hennig that poor woman was also kicked out then became this century's Brendan Fraser with her sexual misconduct information coming out.

We all know how horrible people are treated behind the scenes she might have been sexual attacked groped or something.

So yeah all she did after was battlefield hardline forspoken now that new marvel 1945 game but hey Brendan Fraser was a great actor till he also said he was sexually attacked just now he is allowed back in no doubt she also had to take a leave of absence out and or was forced out on ice.

Man there are way to many out there that look at niel at the new gaming jesus when all he had done is some work on uncharted 4 then tlou2

Oh also the tvhshow? for real all they did was use stuff from the 2013 game its like saying GOT was a 10/10 but never watching past season 3

-Foxtrot17h ago

@mkis007

That's highly unfair to them both

Amy Hennig got messed around working on projects that got cancelled by the publishers (EA) and then ended up on a awful game (Forspoken) where you had 4 other writers working on it which is just a recipe for disaster. She is now working on Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra. Not her fault she was pushed out of NaughtyDog, something both Nolan North and Richard McGonagle have both said in interviews.

Bruce Straley left after burn out, the rest of the story we don't know and will never know just like what happened with Amy Hennig. He decided to take a break and wasn't sure if he wanted to come back to gaming however he had an idea he wanted to make so he founded Wildflower Interactive, a smaller studio where they are currently working on a new game.

Tacoboto16h ago

@the obvious stain of a commenter

The trans character wasn't Abby. Try playing Part 2 instead of gatekeeping what you think Part 1 was about and meant.

Maybe try watching the show while you're at it, because you're terribly off with your opinion on that too

MajorLazer13h ago

Naughty Dog is better than all the MS studios put together.

derek13h ago(Edited 13h ago)

@just he has been behind 2 of the greatest games ever made. Tlou2 was easily the best non-vr game made last gen. Losers just can't get over Joel's death, mixed with the usual console war nonsense. The fact that you so casually call him a sob shows how deranged some gamers have become about Drunkmann.

derek13h ago

@frosty, for people like Just, including anyone that can be categorized as being a minority in any kind of media is "forcing it down his throat " lol. I to don't care for poor "checking box" inclusion for inclusion sake but that was not the case with tlou2.

fr0sty12h ago(Edited 12h ago)

The pathetic part about it is, you can tell just_looken never even played TLOU, because that was the game where Ellie's sexuality was first brought to light... No "that was forced down our throats" to be said about that.

Only terrified folks in the closet that use their hatred as cover from outing themselves fear LGBT people that much. They exist. They will exist in all aspects of life, including popular media. Get over it.

just_looken5h ago

@all

Once again you drag out something like its a big win

Here is my old channel a clip of me playing TLOU on ps3
https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Search my channel for more clips

Proof its my channel? look at this profiles banner that is 7yrs old then look at other vids on that channel like my bf3 clips to see my psn id. But knowing this group that is way to much work.

Also elle being a lesbian is another trump card? one dlc is all we got of that a dlc that took over a year to be tossed out.

Rainbowcookie3h ago

Hey at least we have cookies to eat 😄

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Rangerman12081d 11h ago

Glad he clarified it but i'm still somewhat skeptical. Plus, his comments about how Ai will revolutionize storytelling were still pretty iffy.

anast1d 11h ago

No need to bow down, Stan your ground. The AI comments were gross though.

S2Killinit1d 10h ago

Pretty excited as I read these. I just cant wait to see what ND is up to.

Export1d 8h ago

put a chick in it and make her gay !

shadowknight2031d 6h ago

Next they need a diverse couple, and perhaps some climate activists

StormSnooper14h ago(Edited 14h ago)

I would love that if only to piss off all the lunatics. Lol

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