Mahoyo

Probably old story now, but Type-Moon announced on September 1st that instead of being released at the end of September, Mahou Tsukai no Yoru will instead be released in winter of 2010, due to " due to various reasons."

In other news, Recettear will be coming to Steam and GamersGate!

Last but not least, Star Ruler will be coming to Steam as well, congratulations.

It's hard to believe it has been over three years since Tsuki-kan was first launched. What started as a small Type-Moon site is now... still a small Type-Moon site. Not that it matters, but it's good to see that the site has grown to be a fairly good TM fansite with quite a bit of useful information.

In anticipation of the imminent release of Mahou Tsukai no Yoru, some major updates have been done over at Tsuki-kan. Most of the stuff are under the hood, the HTML/CSS (and it shall stay that way, CMS-free!) was completely rewritten to make the site cleaner, easier to manage, and update, and many mistakes were corrected. Since Mahoyo is coming out at the end of September, there will be some big updates in September related to Mahoyo, so keep an eye out for those!

Seems like this place is slowly turning into a Japanese dating-sim site... need to sneak in more indie content! But before that...

Innocent Grey mentioned a while ago that there is going to be a big announcement, they also mentioned on their blog about some kind of compilation being released in the second half of the year. Putting the two together and we have Innocent Grey premium box - PARANOIA, a compilation of IG's first four games: Cartagra (the classic), Pianissimo (out-of-place here), Nagomibako (the Cartagra fandisc), and last but not least Kara no Shojo (that which has horrible script). IG's latest work, Caucasus, is not included in the package.

This is a great year to be a Type-Moon fan. Why? First and foremost, Mahou Tsukai no Yoru is coming out on September 30th (the Type-Moon website got a facelift as well), which just happens to be the same day that the DVD of the Unlimited Blade Works film is released, coincidence? Either way, it has been five years since the last major original Type-Moon product, Fate/hollow ataraxia (well, it technically was still just a fandisc, but I think its quality and size merits this) hit the stores, no more milking their existing properties (okay, so the Rakkyo films were a nice treat), yay!

According to Nasu, there will be three parts to Mahoyo. Part one, the one that will come out this September, is based on the story written by Nasu before Tsukihime, while the next two parts will be all new content. Looking at Type-Moon's past release record, I wonder how long it'll be before the fans can finally see the last part, that, and Tsukihime 2... (considering there are still fans patiently waiting for news of DDD volume 3).

So Type-Moon Ace Vol.3 was released a while ago, and what's the big announcement? Mahou Tsukai no Yoru has been delayed until 2010!

The official reason goes something along the lines of "The delay was in part due to being over-optimistic about recreating a 13-year-old work, and in part because we can't suppress to our desire to pursue new stories." There was also words of the entire company working hard together to get the game done blah blah.

Hmm, okay, fair enough, guess TM pulled a Blizzard, will just have to look forward to both Mahoyo and Starcraft 2 in 2010.