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The Angry Video Game Nerd vs. Digital Homicide – How It Would Play Out

Most players, including myself, came to know Digital Homicide through Jim Sterling’s epic struggle and battle against them. They are a prime example of a developer having no ability to take criticism. As a quick background, Digital Homicide came out of obscurity after Jim Sterling did a 10-minute playthrough video of their game The SlaughteringContinue reading “The Angry Video Game Nerd vs. Digital Homicide – How It Would Play Out”

Three Years Ago Today, an Era Was Completed

Today marks three years since the release of Chuhou Joutai 3: Three Nights of Scarlet Abscess, and 2025 marks the fifth anniversary of the release of the original Chuhou Joutai. To celebrate, I released the soundtracks for those three games on Bandcamp for free streaming. You can also purchase them if you want to listenContinue reading “Three Years Ago Today, an Era Was Completed”

The Beginning of a Dark Age – And How We Can Resolve It

The release of Touhou Chouhatsuyou ~ Burgeoning Tresses of Longevity has marked the beginning of a dark age for us. Originally, the “Dark Age” was intended to refer to the Early Middle Ages of Western Europe where there was a time of economic challenges and fragmentation after the Roman Empire’s collapse. Nowadays, the term canContinue reading “The Beginning of a Dark Age – And How We Can Resolve It”

State of Drillimation: Autumn 2025

It’s been nearly six months since the release of Touhou Chouhatsuyou ~ Burgeoning Tresses of Longevity. As you can tell from the visuals, we have certainly fallen into a dark age. Not just for me, but Studio Emiko as well. If you’ve played our newest game Shining Shattering Sky ~ Reverie of Breaking Unreality, youContinue reading “State of Drillimation: Autumn 2025”

Drillimation Launches Long-Awaited Sequel to Mythos of Phantasmagoria, Confirms New Chuhou Joutai Game in Alpha Testings

Drillimation Systems, the studio behind a number of story-driven danmaku experiences such as Chuhou Joutai, has officially launched the long-awaited sequel to their role-playing game Touhou Kourinden ~ Mythos of Phantasmagoria on Steam and itch.io, which released last May. The game was developed by Drillimation Systems with additional help from the Vietnam-based Studio Emiko andContinue reading “Drillimation Launches Long-Awaited Sequel to Mythos of Phantasmagoria, Confirms New Chuhou Joutai Game in Alpha Testings”

Shining Shattering Sky ~ Reverie of Breaking Unreality Reaches 67% Mark

Drillimation Systems has announced that their new game, the in-development Shining Shattering Sky ~ Reverie of Breaking Unreality, is two-thirds of the way done. This comes just one month after the first third was completed. With the completion at 67%, this means 200 of the planned 300 stages have been finished, with ten bosses soContinue reading “Shining Shattering Sky ~ Reverie of Breaking Unreality Reaches 67% Mark”

Itchio Went Down a Third Time In Less Than a Week

A few days after a major outage over the weekend, itch.io faced yet another outage on Wednesday, September 17, 2025. It spanned several hours that afternoon, starting at around 11AM Eastern Standard Time and lasting a few hours, until another outage took place at around 2PM, spanning five hours, and the site didn’t get backContinue reading “Itchio Went Down a Third Time In Less Than a Week”

Itchio Went Down For Much of the Weekend Due to Bot Attacks, Affecting Thousands

Indie game distribution platform itch.io was hit with multiple major outages over the weekend, according to the website Down For Everyone or Just Me, which is another website that tracks service disruptions across the web. The site isn’t available on the more popular DownDetector, though Drillimation Systems has requested Ookla to add the site inContinue reading “Itchio Went Down For Much of the Weekend Due to Bot Attacks, Affecting Thousands”