Brandon Lyttle

1 week ago | nichegamer.com | Brandon Lyttle

Hololive English talent Gawr Gura announced that she’ll be “graduating” from the company and cease activities with the character. For those unfamiliar, VTubers call refer to quitting, retiring, or moving onto something else as a “graduation”. This tradition is a holdover from the intersection of VTubing and Japanese idol culture. Gura announced her graduation in a recent stream titled: “important announcement”.

2 weeks ago | nichegamer.com | Brandon Lyttle

Welcome back to Waifu Wednesday, Niche Gamer’s column where we talk about characters, their appeal, and a little on their history. Today’s Waifu is Sofia de Sainte-Coquille from Rune Factory 3!Sofia is an eccentric member of the Sainte-Coquille family who are wealthy aristocrats known across the Kingdom of Norad where much of the Rune Factory franchise takes place. Most games have at least one member of the family who’s short and rotund as a sort of quasi-mascot for the franchise.

2 weeks ago | nichegamer.com | Brandon Lyttle

The developers of Drug Dealer Simulator have been erroneously blamed for an impending legal investigation against the popular indie game Schedule 1. Both games involve players making and dealing drugs as part of an ironic “simulator” game. While Schedule 1 has a bit more of a silliness to it, the games are apparently similar enough that Movie Games, the publisher of Drug Dealer Simulator has opened an investigation into potential copyright infringement.

3 weeks ago | nichegamer.com | Brandon Lyttle

Anime has become more popular internationally, overseas revenue is up but unfortunately that means overseas markets are having more influence on anime than ever before. This increasing international influence can be good sometimes, recently English-speaking fans of LOVE-BULLET saved the series from cancellation. However, there’s a darker side to this: the censors of the Chinese Communist Party.

3 weeks ago | nichegamer.com | Brandon Lyttle

Welcome back to Waifu Wednesday, Niche Gamer’s column where we talk about characters, their appeal, and a little on their history. This week’s waifu is AlienMixture, the latest talent joining the Socks VTuber Agency!For those who don’t know, Socks Agency is the brainchild of internet artist FlorkofCows who basically meme’d the agency into existence. The agency itself is named for Flork’s (in)famous “sock” puppet characters.