Omakuni status in 2024

What's the status and trend of omakuni in 2024? Back in 2020 I explained what omakuni is, but what happened since then?

Reminder: The simplest description of omakuni is this: If a game can't be bought in Japan for Steam, but can be for consoles, it's omakuni.

How to play EA games, avoiding EA App. (Works in 2024-09)

EA App is almost unusable. This page is yet another guide about the hack "F**k off EA App", to play EA games avoiding EA App. (4 min read)

Rabi-Ribi character names: What's the "correct" pronunciation?

What's the "correct" pronunciation of the Rabi-Ribi character names? I mean, what's the pronunciation that the developers intended? Here's the guess.

Is IceSitruuna from Finland? No, Wikidata is wrong.

The game developer IceSitruuna is a Chinese company. But as of July 2023, Wikidata wrongly says that it is from Finland.

Has the Definitive Ed. of DQ11 superseded the original in the market? Not simple.

Dragon Quest 11S, the Definitive Edition, was released in Dec 2020 for Steam, PS4, and Xbox. The original version is now (secretly?) withdrawn from the Steam Store, to my surprise. But is this usurpation complete? The story is not simple. Let's examine it.

NB: I took snapshots for most linked pages. So as-of-writing information, in May 2021, is well preserved.

Resistance calculation — from 101 to perfection — of Dragon Quest of the Stars

Resistance is crucial; it REALLY matters, in Dragon Quest of the Stars(DQS), in particular in battles with super-strong bosses. Here's how to work out resistance.

An omakuni game! How to live with it.

What can you do if a Steam game is in "omakuni" state? All is written here.