Japan-based video game developer Spike Chunsoft, the company behind the popular Danganronpa franchise, recently announced the formation of their North American subsidiary, Spike Chunsoft Inc. The new North American office will open in California, the wholly owned office will be responsible for localising, marketing and publishing for the region. Mitsutoshi Sakurai, President & CEO for Spike Chunsoft Co., […]

Danganronpa is a series that has largely existed on its own terms. When the murder mystery series’ story expanded beyond the confines of its format, its creators looked to other genres and mediums to spin its tale, ending its original story in anime form with Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope’s Peak High School. While […]

Derek Heemsbergen takes you through the chilling introduction of Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony, the latest game in the Danganronpa murder mystery series, that once again delivers thrills and bloody chills on PS4 and Vita. Want to see more videos? Subscribe to our YouTube channel and check out the First 15 – Dishonored: Death of the […]

Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony will have streaming restrictions upon launch on PlayStation 4, preventing players from streaming and creating videos of the game beyond the first chapter. These restrictions are in the interest of preventing spoilers, a representative of publisher NIS America told CGM, and have been imposed directly by developer Spike Chunsoft. What this […]

A few years ago, I wanted nothing to do with Danganronpa. Its morbid premise—a neon-splattered killing game between sixteen talented high school students—sent chills down my spine. I wondered what joy there was to find in their suffering, to watch their faces twist in anguish as their friends’ bodies piled ever higher in a series […]

NIS America has announced that it will be bringing Danganronpa spin-off Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls to PlayStation 4 not long after it ports the mainline games to the platform in summer of 2017.

NIS America is bringing both Danganronpa visual novels to PlayStation 4 in the form of Danganronpa 1•2 Reload in early 2017. This compilation will contain Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc and its direct sequel Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, bringing both to PS4 in North America, where the games have previously only been available on PlayStation Vita and […]

With Tokyo Game Show underway, it is time for the annual Sony TGS Press Conference.

Danganronpa is a franchise that I was oblivious to prior to this review, but this is definitely an IP that I have quickly started to crave more of. However, while there’s plenty to enjoy in this instalment, there’s also plenty that holds it back. Because I’m not familiar with the previous Danganronpa videogames, and I’ve […]

MISSING: An Interactive Thriller is an episodic game series that returns to the ways of FMV (full motion video).  It’s fairly tense, has great puzzles, and is a bit too short. For those unaware, FMV is a video game narration technique that relies on pre-recorded video files to display action or storytelling in a video […]