For the purposes of this list, we’re broadening the scope of “visual novel” to include narrative-centric, cinematic games and ...

Welcome to our weekend segment, where we showcase recent or upcoming Japanese indie games that share a specific theme. This week, we’re taking a look at visual novels! Because the only thing better ...

In 2000, at the end of that year’s last Comiket convention, Type-Moon released Tsukihime, an eroge visual novel about vampires. 25 years later, you can now play its remake, Tsukihime - A piece of blue ...

Epic Games is teaming up with arguably its biggest game development rival. Epic Games is teaming up with arguably its biggest game development rival. is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, ...

A code execution vulnerability in the Unity game engine could be exploited to achieve code execution on Android and privilege escalation on Windows. Unity is a cross-platform game engine and ...

James Ratcliff joined Game Rant in 2022 as a Gaming News Writer. In 2023, James was offered a chance to become an occasional feature writer for different games and then a Senior Author in 2025. He is ...

TL;DR: Unity has released a critical security patch addressing a high-level vulnerability in versions 2017.1 and earlier, affecting Windows, Mac, Android, and iOS games. Developers are urged to update ...

A major security vulnerability affecting Unity engine versions dating back to 2017 has triggered emergency patches across the gaming industry on October 3, with both indie and AAA developers rushing ...

After the English-speaking gaming world spent decades saying little more than "lol, Japan" at the concept of visual novels, the genre has finally grown enough in popularity for notable titles to ...

Two of the most popular casual gaming genres are visual novels and interactive fiction. These unique niches focus less on intense gameplay and mechanics, instead emphasizing compelling characters and ...

Visual novel games come in all shapes and sizes. Some of them are rich fantasy epics with 42 branching paths and hidden easter eggs, while others are bite-sized gems that are perfect for cozy train ...