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34-year-old Mitch William Gross of Iowa was sentenced on August 24 to four months in federal prison. His crime? Wire fraud. More specifically, he used company money to buy more than $140,000 worth of Pokémon cards and other gaming items. Gross was working for Ruan …Read more »
After Steam pulled a bunch of video games due to receiving pressure from credit cards like Visa and Mastercard (who in turn were receiving pressure from pro-censorship groups like Collective Shout), game website itch.io has also been affected. “We have ‘deindexed’ all adult NSFW content …Read more »
Masahiro Sakurai, the creator of the video games Super Smash Bros. and Kirby, was recently given the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology’s Art Encouragement Prize (courtesy of Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs) for his YouTube channel “Masahiro Sakurai on Creating Games.” After …Read more »
Another form of payment is rubbing up against adults-only content in the manga world. This time around it has to do with Manga Planet, which has announced that payment provider Stripe will no longer be allowing payments to be made on the service. This has …Read more »
It seems that Western credit card companies are again affecting Japanese businesses. This time around it’s about Niconico, which also has a “mature illustration service” called Niconico Shunga. (The title references shunga, a traditional type of Japanese erotica that usually would take the form of …Read more »
pictSPACE, a Japanese online shopping service dealing with doujinshi, is the latest Japanese retailer to soon lose the ability to take payments through Visa and Mastercard. This is part of a growing trend of some Western credit card companies and their agencies refusing to work …Read more »
There’s been a controversy brewing over some Western credit card companies and their agencies when it comes to manga retailers that sell adult titles. Some of these credit cards will not purchase from the retailers, and Visa has publicly admitted that they’re one of them. …Read more »
A percentage of Japan’s manga output includes sexually explicit material, and sometimes foreign credit card companies balk at the idea of certain titles. For example, website Manga Library Z was told by multiple credit card brands from the West that it needed to cease …Read more »
If there’s one thing that’s sure to inspire some spending, it’s an anime-themed credit card. A bunch of companies have issued these to eager fans in the past, featuring the likes of everything from Love Live! to Madoka Magica and beyond. Now it’s time for …Read more »
What if you crossed Yu-Gi-Oh! with Kosaku Shima? You might get Noitamina’s [C] Control— The Money and Soul of Possibility, a series that’s at once a reaction to the 2008 financial crisis and a game-ified gambling-for-your-life magic stock market show. At first glance, I sincerely …Read more »
There’s been a major backlash in response to the removal of legal NSFW video games at Steam and itch.io, with the game sites saying it was due to pressure from payment processors. Mastercard has since responded to the accusations that it was part of the …Read more »
Many NSFW games have been erased from Steam and itch.io, due to the pressure of payment processors like Visa and Mastercard, who in turn seem to be responding to pressure from pro-censorship groups like Collective Shout. PC Gamer decided to interview some indie game developers …Read more »
Steam recently announced that the platform will reject “Content that may violate the rules and standards set forth by Steam’s payment processors and related card networks and banks, or internet network providers. In particular, certain kinds of adult only content.” The issue of credit card …Read more »
If you, like many others, found yourself enamored with Science SARU’s anime adaptation of Yukinobu Tatsu’s DAN DA DAN manga, there’s a great home video release on the way. GKIDS and Shout! Studios have teamed up to bring the series to Blu-ray in DAN DA …Read more »
Doctor Elise: The Royal Lady with the Lamp is an unusual series, even by isekai standards. Blending reincarnation with the new wave of “second chance” stories like Tearmoon Empire and 7th Time Loop, it’s an inventive twist on both concepts. More than that, though, it’s actually good at being …Read more »
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