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Aksys Games Licenses Bad Apple Wars, Period Cube, Collar x Malice Otome Games

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Aksys Games announced at its Anime Expo panel on Sunday that it will release Otomate's Bad Apple Wars, Period Cube ~Torikago no Amadeus~, and Collar × Malice games. In addition, Aksys Games will release a fan disc for Code:Realize ~Guardian of Rebirth~ PlayStation Vita otome game in 2017. Aksys released the original game last fall.

Idea Factory's Otomate released Bad Apple Wars for PlayStation Vita last November. Aksys Games will release the title in 2017.

The game follows a protagonist who winds up at a strange school after an accident at the school entrance ceremony. This school is NEVAEH, an academy for the souls of bad students. Graduating from this school earns the students a second chance at life.

Otomate released Period Cube ~Torikago no Amadeus~ ("Period Cube ~Amadeus of the Birdcage~") for PlayStation Vita on May 19. Aksys Games will release the title in 2017.

In the game the protagonist joins a childhood friend in playing an online RPG in order to find her missing older brother. In order to escape the dangerous fantasy world she wakes up in, she must clear the game.

Otamate will release Collar × Malice for PlayStation Vita on August 18 in Japan, and Aksys Games will release the game in 2017.

The protagonist of the game is a police officer in Shinjuku, which has become more dangerous since a series of consecutive brutal incidents. One night she is attacked and fitted with a collar containing poison. In order to remove the collar and save Shinjuku, she teams with a mysterious group of men who also claim to be investigating the case.