Price Break 2012 Edition

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Have you been putting off buying a game because it costs just that little bit more than you want to pay for it? Cursing at the exchange rates for being so rough? We know the feeling, and to help ease your wallet a bit, we’re cutting the prices on many of our older games. Now’s your chance to pick up that one you always meant to buy but never did, to try something you’ve read about here, or to just treat yourself. These prices are good from today onwards, so it’s always a good time to buy something new from MangaGamer.com. Full details after the cut. Continue reading

Month-end Update

They say that January is the hardest month to get through: post-holiday depression, bad weather (we got like six inches snow here in Seattle. WTF?), little daylight, and a groggy sense of returning to the real world after a month where it seems everybody but you had at least two weeks off. And then there’s been the recent Animepocalypse where it seems like the US industry is hitting another particularly rough patch. It doesn’t really make you chatty, does it? Since we’ve largely been toiling away in silence, here’s a look at what’s been going on since recovering from our New Year’s hangovers. Continue reading

Hey, Ho! The Happy Freelance Life!

One word for you: Plastics.

Everybody always asks how they can work in the anime or VN or porn or (fill in entertainment based) industry. In the final segment of this week’s ANNCast, our editor Sloanereinja tells you what you need to know to break into the industry and more importantly, why working it freelance is a very bad idea.

(Also, massive points to anybody who can get where the post title, screencap, and caption are from WITHOUT having to google.)