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138-599: The PSP game was followed by a sequel, Corpse Party: Book of Shadows , which was released for the PSP on September 1, 2011, in Japan, and on January 15, 2013, in North America. A spin-off game, Corpse Party: Sweet Sachiko's Hysteric Birthday Bash , was released for the PSP in Japan on August 2, 2012, and was released for Windows worldwide on April 10, 2019. A direct sequel of Corpse Party: Book of Shadows , called Corpse Party: Blood Drive ,

276-466: A handheld video game console , it connects to a television via HDMI like a traditional home video game console , and is controlled though the use of a DualShock 3 or DualShock 4 controller. Due to the difference in controller input between the Vita and a DualShock controller, Vita games that are dependent on the system's touch-screen, rear touchpad, microphone, or camera are not compatible. It also shares

414-403: A micro USB Type B port, which can be used to charge the device along with any standard micro USB cable. The model was released in six colors in Japan (white, black, light blue, lime green, pink, and khaki), although it was only released in black and light blue in North America and Europe. The PlayStation TV is a non-portable variant of the Vita; instead of featuring its own display screen like

552-522: A PS4 version more to appeal to North America's larger user-base. The March 2017 launch of the Nintendo Switch , which operates on a similar concept of providing high budget video games on a portable unit, further overshadowed the Vita, though niche support through indie games and JRPGs continued into the year. In mid-2017, Glixel estimated the Vita userbase to be around 15 million. On September 20, 2018, Sony announced at Tokyo Game Show 2018 that

690-569: A PSP successor but would make comments regarding making future hardware. Shuhei Yoshida , President of SCE Worldwide Studios revealed that his studio, despite usually being more involved with software, had a continued role in future hardware development at the time. In December, Sony Computer Entertainment CEO Kazuo Hirai stated that Sony aimed to appeal to a wide demographic of people by using multiple input methods on future hardware; buttons and joysticks for traditional handheld game system users, and touchscreens for smart phone users. The device

828-711: A PlayStation button and Start and Select buttons. Motion control is also possible through Sony's Sixaxis motion sensing system, consisting of a three-axis gyroscope and a three-axis accelerometer . In addition to these input methods, specific to just the Vita, is a secondary touchpad that is on the back of the device. Other hardware includes stereo speakers , a microphone , built-in Wi-Fi , and Bluetooth 2.1+EDR connectivity, and two cameras . The cameras are both 0.3 megapixel and run at 640×480 (VGA) at 60 frames/s, or at 320×240 at 120 frames/s. They can be used to take photos or videos using built-in applications on

966-557: A Vita successor, stating that "climate is not healthy for now because of the huge dominance of mobile gaming." At E3 2015 , he had stated that Sony would not be making any more AAA, big budget games to the system, but by October, the comment had been revised that Sony would not be making any more games for it at all. Reasons cited included the company focusing on supporting the PS4, and the fact that it felt that third party Japanese developers and Western indie developers were sufficiently supporting

1104-427: A Wiccan character, despite there being no mention of a "Book of Shadows", during the film. But in the film's teaser trailer , reveals the "Book of Shadows" itself but never appeared in the film. In the trailer, the "Book of Shadows" was found by a half-naked woman with a twana symbol behind her back, at the woods of Black Hills , until she was attacked by an unknown man. The title was seen as an attempt to capitalise on

1242-469: A black hooded boy approaches Ayumi and tells her, "If you reclaim the "Book of Shadows" and use it at Heavenly Host, those who have died there will be revived.". Ayumi pledges that she will once more take back the "Book of Shadows". The trail leads into the previous residence of Makina Shinozaki. To make matters worse, Heavenly Host's curse is expanded by the "new Sachiko", later named "Sachi". The game Corpse Party 2: Dead Patient takes place five years after

1380-480: A brief memory of it, before screaming in agony and reverting to her malicious self. In Corpse Party: Blood Drive , there are two openings; the first one being "In the Rain", by Hara, and the second being "Keshin" by Imai, which plays at Chapter 7 after Ayumi's retrieval of the "Book of Shadows". The ending is "Translucent Days" by ARTERY VEIN. The first game's 3DS version received "generally favourable" reviews according to

1518-531: A charter from Crowley giving him permission to perform the OTO rituals. Some people have taken this as evidence that Gardner invented the idea of a Witches' Grimoire , perhaps sometime between 1946 (when he finished his novel High Magic's Aid ), and 1949, and had named it Ye Bok of Ye Art Magical . In 1949, he had renamed it to the Book of Shadows , and soon began to make use of it with his Bricket Wood Coven. Adding weight to

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1656-614: A child. The chant in question stated that: (These eight lines are exactly the final stanza of "A Tree Song" .) This version of the ritual, written by both Gardner and Valiente, but containing sections adopted from various sources, such as Aleister Crowley , Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches , and even Rudyard Kipling , went on to become the traditional text for Gardnerian Wicca . In forms of British Traditional Wicca , which include Gardnerian Wicca , Alexandrian Wicca and Algard Wicca ,

1794-467: A dark abyss. Patient records and clinical charts are scattered all over the hospital, with zombies and a bizarre SWAT team roaming through the hallways. An amnesiac girl, Ayame Itou, wakes up on an operating table and encounters the dark happenings around her. On August 11, 2020, MAGES YouTube channel released a " 10 Years of Corpse Party Repeated Fear " video celebrating the Heavenly Host Saga, at

1932-435: A fictional Book of Shadows which contains spells and arcane law, and has a supernatural ability to defend itself from harm. In the 1996 film The Craft , which some critics saw as a major influence on the series Charmed , the Book of Shadows was referred to as an object in which a witch keeps her "power thoughts". The 2000 sequel to The Blair Witch Project was titled Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 and featured

2070-402: A group of Japanese high school students, celebrating their school's culture festival . The group are telling ghost stories when a sudden pseudo -" earthquake " transports them to a dilapidated schoolhouse in an alternate dimension . The school is haunted by the ghosts of people who have been trapped there. The main playable character is Satoshi Mochida, a kind-hearted high school student who

2208-411: A hospital. The Shinozaki estate and tome subsequently vanish without a trace. Ayumi had been severely ill for her misuse of the "Book of Shadows'" black magic. In the hospital, a woman claiming to be a spiritual associate of Hinoe's visits Ayumi. This woman belongs to the " Wiccan Institute", an organization that worships spirits. She tells her Hinoe's last wish, which is to regain the "Book of Shadows" or

2346-462: A key element to the story throughout the game. In the Australian television series Nowhere Boys two characters are known to possess a Book of Shadows . One being one of the protagonists, Felix Ferne, and one being an antagonist, Alice Hartley. Felix's book was first thought to be his diary as he tried to hide its true existence from his friends, and Alice's book was thought to be her sister's. In

2484-401: A lower-cost LCD display. The model also roughly added about an extra hour of battery life. The newer model also comes with 1 GB of internal storage memory, although it is not possible to use both the internal memory and memory card concurrently. Upon inserting a PS Vita memory card, the system will offer to copy the existing data from the internal memory to the new card. This model has

2622-447: A maximum of 100 applications and games can be stored on the device at a time, regardless of data storage available. When the limit is reached, applications or games must be moved or deleted in order to access those beyond the limit. This limit was later raised to 500 applications in system software version 3.10 released in 2014. Due to the high price of official Sony memory cards, inexpensive third-party "SD2Vita" adapter cards which allow

2760-417: A popular student due to transfer out of Kisaragi; Sakutaro Morishige, Mayu's best friend; and Yui Shishido, the class's homeroom teacher. Blood Covered also includes several characters from other schools who are also trapped inside Heavenly Host and affect the story. Two notable characters are Naho Saenoki, a selfish but helpful paranormalist from Paulownia Academy ( 桐章学園 , Kirishō Gakuen ) who discovered

2898-505: A red dress who seeks vengeance for her and her mother's deaths at the hands of a teacher many years prior. Corpse Party: NewChapter remake was released for mobile phones in four chapters from October 3, 2006 to December 26, 2007. It was discontinued before Chapter 5 was released. It contained the same plot additions as the later Blood Covered , but had much smaller maps. Blood Covered , released for PC in five chapters (first two released together) from March 8, 2008 to July 28, 2011,

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3036-553: A similar drop had been seen by Nintendo with its transition from the Nintendo DS to the Nintendo 3DS . Christian Phillips, a former senior director in Sony, said they had underestimated the impact of mobile gaming at the time of the Vita's release. They had considered gaming on smartphones to be "just good enough for gameplay" and instead felt tablet computers to be more their competitors to

3174-557: A smaller yet passionate userbase in the West. Though Sony has not released exact sales figures, estimates are around 15 to 16 million units. In the platform's later years, Sony promoted the PlayStation Vita's ability to work in conjunction with its other gaming products, such as Remote Play of PlayStation 4 games, similar to the Wii U 's function of Off-TV Play . The platform stalled in 2017 upon

3312-471: A television like a home console, though the device was discontinued in the West by the end of 2015, and did not fare well in Japan's handheld-focused region either. In November 2014, SCEA president Shawn Layden suggested that the new approach was working on hardware level, stating that Vita sales had increased since the implementation of PS4 Remote Play, though he and another Sony representative did not give specific figures. Sony continued to make games for

3450-630: Is a handheld game console developed and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment . It was first released in Japan on December 17, 2011, then in other international territories on February 22, 2012, and was produced until discontinuation on March 1, 2019. The console is the successor to the PlayStation Portable (PSP), and a part of the PlayStation brand of gaming devices; as part of the eighth generation of video game consoles , it primarily competed with

3588-462: Is a spin-off manga that takes place during the events of Corpse Party . With their school, Satsukiyama Academy ( 皐月山学園 , Satsukiyama Gakuen ) , shutting down for good, the students of a small town were heading for different directions in life, not until they decide to perform the "Sachiko Ever After" charm swallowing the entire class to Heavenly Host Elementary, along with a mysterious girl's spirit. In order to get out, they must track and get rid of

3726-421: Is an enhanced remake and port of the 1996 Corpse Party . It includes more characters, larger maps, updated graphics, and a cast of amateur voice actors. It was followed on August 12, 2010 by another enhanced remake, Blood Covered: Repeated Fear , which was released internationally as Corpse Party , which features updated art and the addition of professional voice actors/actresses . The remake thoroughly expands

3864-572: Is followed by adherents. Though originally a secret text only given to initiates of Wicca, many initiate and non-initiates alike have gone on to print various Books of Shadows. These figures include Charles Cardell , Lady Sheba, and Janet and Stewart Farrar to name a few. In other Wiccan traditions and amongst a number of solitary practitioners, alternate versions of the Book of Shadows have been written, which are independent of Gardner's original. Numerous associations and traditions have since grown up around

4002-421: Is more often used to describe a personal journal , rather than a traditional text. This journal records rituals , spells , and their results, as well as other magical information. This can be either an individual or coven text, and is not normally passed from teacher to student. In many cases, this kind of Book of Shadows is an electronic document (disk or website ) instead of a hand-written one. Some reserve

4140-404: Is teased by his classmates for his cowardly nature. Three of the other characters are students from Satoshi's class: Naomi Nakashima, Satoshi's childhood friend; Yoshiki Kishinuma, an intimidating yet good-natured student; and Ayumi Shinozaki, the class representative . Rounding out the group is Yuka Mochida, Satoshi's younger sister. The game's antagonist is the ghost of a former student, a girl in

4278-569: Is the direct sequel to Corpse Party: Book of Shadows , and is the first game featuring settings and characters rendered in 3D. The game was released for the Sony PlayStation Vita in Japan in July 2014 by 5pb. The characters are depicted in 3D chibi style, however traditional CG artwork appears during cutscenes, illustrated by Sakuya Kamishiro. Continuing from the prologue included in Book of Shadows , Naomi manages to save Ayumi and takes her to

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4416-547: The Charmed series' established market. In the 2011 television series The Secret Circle , each family is shown to have their own "Book of Shadows", with each book containing unique spells. As the book is passed down from generation to generation, each generation appears to write their own spells or notes, as indicated by Cassie's recognition of her mother's handwriting in her own family's "Book of Shadows". The Japanese horror adventure game Corpse Party: Book of Shadows deals with

4554-556: The JRPG and visual novels genre to help keep a steady flow of mid-level releases coming to the system. Additionally, big games such as Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster sold well and roughly in-line with their home console counterparts. The heavier support from Japan, in turn, also helped support the system in the West as well, with many games in the Atelier , Ys , Danganronpa , Persona , and Trails series localized into English on

4692-400: The Nintendo 3DS , where it would sell millions of copies for Sony's main competitor. With support diminishing, Shahid Ahmad, Sony's Director of Strategic Content, instead began a new approach to software, through directly reaching out to, and making accommodations for, smaller, independent developers who had previously released games for mobile and PC platforms. While not completely reversing

4830-407: The Nintendo 3DS . The original model of the handheld includes a 5-inch (130 mm) OLED multi-touch capacitive touchscreen , a rear touchpad, two analog joysticks , and front and shoulder push-button input, and supports Bluetooth , Wi-Fi , and optional 3G . The Vita features a quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore CPU and a quad-core SGX543MP GPU. The PS Vita 2000 series, a revised version of

4968-492: The PC-9801 . Dummy head mics were utilized for Blood Covered , Book of Shadows , and Blood Drive to provide perceived three dimensional sound. The opening theme for Corpse Party Blood Covered: ...Repeated Fear is "Shangri-La" by Asami Imai , and the ending for Blood Covered is "Confutatis no Inori" by Artery Vein (Imai & Eri Kitamura ). An insert song, "Yami ni Nureta Catastrophe", also sung by Artery Vein, plays at

5106-534: The PlayStation Network via the PlayStation Store , although not all games are released physically. Since its launch, digital-only releases have slowly become more prominent, partially in an effort to reduce production costs for release on the platform's comparatively smaller user-base, and partially due to the influx smaller-scale indie mobile phone games that have always been digital-only releases. Like

5244-408: The fifth edition of roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons , members of the warlock class can gain a Book of Shadows, which enables them to learn extra spells and rituals regardless of whether or not such magic is ordinarily accessible through the warlock class. In the roguelike Binding of Isaac , the Book of Shadows is featured as an active item the player can find. When used, it grants

5382-495: The palmist Mir Bashir . The article in question was about an allegedly ancient Sanskrit divination manual which explained how to foretell things based upon the length of a person's shadow. Valiente theorised that Gardner then adopted this term for his Witches' grimoire . She maintained that "It was a good name, and it is a good name still, wherever Gardner found it". A leather bound manuscript written in Gardner's handwriting that

5520-422: The "Mixed" rating, and 0 in the "Bad" or "Awful" rating. Its initial launch sales were generally seen as positive, selling over 300,000 units in Japan, and 200,000 units in North America. However, a large dropoff occurred in both regions. In Japan, second-week sales dropped 78%, and leveled off at selling about 12,000 units per week. Similarly, sales dropped off to about 30,000 to 50,000 units sold per month for

5658-422: The "Sachiko Ever After" charm and came to investigate Heavenly Host; and Yuuya Kizami, a sadistic student from Byakudan Senior High School ( 白壇高等学校 , Byakudan Kōtōgakkō ) who accompanies Yuka as she is separated from her brother. The red ghost is re-envisioned as a little girl named Sachiko Shinozaki who kills the students of Heavenly Host in anger over her and her mother's murder. Corpse Party: Another Child

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5796-410: The "economics simply don't work with the traditional process". Sony addressed the "economics of Vita game development" issue with beginning on focusing on the fact that almost all PlayStation 4 games could be streamed and played through a Vita through Remote Play . Sony attempted to attach the device to the PS4 due to its extreme popularity; it took only a few weeks for the sales to surpass the sales of

5934-417: The 1990s and early 2000s, with little market competition, and Sony 's massive success with its PlayStation and PlayStation 2 home video game consoles around the same time, Sony entered the handheld market as well. In 2004, it released the PlayStation Portable (PSP) to compete with the Nintendo DS as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles . After a slow start in the worldwide market, it

6072-434: The 4 million mark at the end of 2012. Views on the hardware dropped to more moderate levels in 2013, after the platform's initial sales lulls. Surveys in Japan showed that consumers were not purchasing the device due to its high retail price and perceived lack of software variety, and that current Vita owners only showed a 46% rate of approval for the device and its software library. Similarly, many Western critics felt that

6210-562: The Book of Shadows for recording spells and keep a separate book, sometimes called the Book of Mirrors to contain thoughts, feelings and experiences. Not all traditions of Wicca utilize the term "Book of Shadows". In Seax-Wica, a tradition founded by Raymond Buckland, the Book of Shadows is called "The Tree", and in Devotional Wicca, the book is titled "The Book of Ways"; many traditions refer to their Books of Shadows as simply "The Book". The television fantasy series Charmed features

6348-674: The Book of Shadows used by adherents is based upon that written by Gardner and Valiente. Although his own book had been put together with the help of Doreen Valiente and included material from a variety of modern sources, (notably from Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches and the writings of Aleister Crowley ) it also included sections written in an antique (or mock-antique) style, including advice for witches brought to trial and tortured. Gardner claimed that these sections were genuinely historical in origin, and that witches had not been allowed to write anything down until recently, to avoid incrimination; when at last Books of Shadows were allowed,

6486-402: The Book of Shadows. Gerald Gardner, the "father of Wicca", first introduced the Book of Shadows to people that he had initiated into the craft through his Bricket Wood coven in the 1950s. He claimed that it was a personal cookbook of spells that have worked for the owner; they could copy from his own book and add material as they saw fit. He said that the practice of Witches keeping such a book

6624-461: The Book of Shadows. Traditionally, "a Witch's book of shadows is destroyed upon death." It can be an experimental practice, everyday ritual works, or a record of magic. This is also a book of inspiration and can be used in future rituals. The concept of the Book of Shadows has subsequently appeared in popular culture, for instance being used in the American television series Charmed , which popularised

6762-625: The Gospel of the Witches , which she felt was genuine witchcraft practice. Valiente dramatically rewrote sections such as the Charge of the Goddess and also wrote several poems for the book, such as The Witches Rune . She also helped to create a poem to include the Wiccan Rede within it. Valiente also noticed that a chant in one ritual in the book was based upon the poem "A Tree Song" from Puck of Pook's Hill by Rudyard Kipling , which she had enjoyed as

6900-517: The PS3 and PS4, the Vita contains Trophy support for games. The system was designed so that it would be easy for developers to extract PS3 game assets and in turn use them to make Vita versions of games. Prior to the Vita's release, several third-party studios showcased tech demos of the device by exporting existing assets from their PlayStation 3 counterpart and then rendering them on the device, high budget examples including Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of

7038-570: The PS3". The Vita's internal battery has between 3–5 hours of power for game playing, depending on the processing power required for the game, screen brightness, sound level and network connections, as well as other factors. Additionally, the battery can supply about five hours for video watching, and up to nine hours of music listening with the screen off. The system does allow for additional external battery solutions as well. The PlayStation Vita has 512 MB of system RAM and 128 MB of VRAM. The amount of RAM allows cross-game chat to be used on

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7176-491: The PS3] because the battery would last five minutes and it would probably set fire to your pants". Its power was later described by Sony engineers as about halfway between the PSP and PS3. As rumors had suggested, the device was designed to present "the best of both worlds" between mobile and handheld gaming, including a 5-inch OLED touchscreen, a rear touchpad coupled with physical buttons and dual analog sticks. Sony also revealed that

7314-676: The PS4 as well, with Vita/PS4 releases becoming common due to the spread of their userbases – Vita versions for Japan, where the Vita was larger in its initial years, and PS4 versions of games for North America and Europe, where the PS4 userbase was substantially larger. Few PlayStation 2 titles were ported to the Vita due to the PS2's complicated infrastructure – games that did, such as Final Fantasy X/X2 Remaster and Persona 4 Golden required extensive reworking, or were based on their PS3 counterparts, such as Jak and Daxter Collection , Ratchet and Clank Collection , and Sly Cooper Collection . Towards

7452-657: The Patriots , Yakuza 4 , and Lost Planet . While none of these particular high budget tech demos materialized into actual game releases, and few big-budget Western games would be made for both outside of PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale , many Japanese development teams would go on to develop mid-level games that would release for both platforms, including the first two games from Falcom's Trails of Cold Steel series, Compile Hearts' original Hyperdimension Neptunia trilogy, and many entries from Tecmo Koei's Atelier and Dynasty Warriors series. The trend continued on

7590-602: The PowerVR SGX543MP processor and perform at a level similar to the original Xbox . Through mid-2010, websites continued to run stories about accounts of the existence of a "PSP 2". Reports arose during the Tokyo Game Show that the device was unveiled internally during a private meeting during mid-September held at Sony Computer Entertainment's headquarters in Aoyama, Tokyo. Shortly after, reports of development kits for

7728-718: The Remote Play and PS Now functionality of a regular Vita. The system was released in Japan in November 2013, in North America in October 2014, and in Europe on November 14, 2014. The device did not fare well and had a short retail shelf life in North America and Europe, where it was discontinued at the end of 2015. Physical software for the Vita is distributed on a proprietary flash memory card called "PlayStation Vita game card". All Vita games are also made available to be downloaded digitally on

7866-451: The Vita contains a multitude of input methods . The device features a " super oval " shape similar to the design of the original PlayStation Portable, with a 5-inch (130 mm) qHD OLED capacitive touchscreen in the centre of the device. The device features two analog sticks, a D-pad , a set of standard PlayStation face buttons ( [REDACTED] , [REDACTED] , [REDACTED] and [REDACTED] ), two shoulder buttons (L and R),

8004-454: The Vita had been released too late into the main PlayStation console cycle and too close to the PlayStation 4 's release in November 2013. As one of Sony's flagship products, many of their first-party developers had put more focus on games for that system rather than the Vita as a result. The lack of interest from Sony's first-party teams reverberated to third-party developers, who felt the Vita

8142-543: The Vita model revision, the PCH-2000, which was generally well received by critics as well for addressing a number of prior complaints about the system, which included a price and size reduction. However, reviewers felt more mixed on the decision to change from OLED to LCD screen in the revised model, with some feeling it led to a minor downgrade in image quality. While not giving specific figures, Sony stated that Vita sales beat projections in North America in 2014, which it

8280-408: The Vita over the course of almost two years. In July 2014, Yoshida stated that the company would focus on it less as a dedicated handheld video game console, and more on its combination of uses, stating "it's not about individual Vita games any more. It's more about how Vita can have multiple uses – with PS4 Remote Play , PS3 games with PS Now , and the dedicated games. The whole ecosystem with PS4 at

8418-434: The Vita would be discontinued in 2019, ending its hardware production. Production of new physical Vita games in Europe and America ceased by the end of Sony's 2018 fiscal year, which ended on March 31, 2019. At the time of the announcement, USgamer estimated that the Vita userbase had grown to approximately 16 million units. Production of Vita hardware officially ended on March 1, 2019. In March 2021, Sony announced that

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8556-456: The Vita's actual hardware design and operating system, but expressed some concern on its practicality, namely competing in 2012 onward, with a large size and price, where mobile phones with large screens and cheap games were prevalent as an alternative. As of its initial Western launch in February 2012, out of 44 professional critic reviews, 9 fell in the "Great" rating, 29 in the "Good" rating, 6 in

8694-403: The Vita's online storefront would be closing on August 27, 2021, making it impossible to purchase digital games for the platform, though still allowing for the download of previously purchased games; this decision was later reversed following consumer feedback. In line with Sony's ambition to combine aspects of traditional video game consoles with mobile devices like smartphones and tablets ,

8832-534: The Vita's web browser. Unlike the PSP and PlayStation 3, the PlayStation Vita does not use the XrossMediaBar interface. Instead, it uses a touchscreen-based UI dubbed LiveArea , which includes various social networking features via the PlayStation Network . Each game or application is represented by its own circle icon, and selecting it leads the user to a panel with multiple options present, including running software itself, going to its respective website through

8970-438: The Vita, according to Phillips. While some technologists in Sony had cautioned that mobile device computational power could outpace current consoles around 2010–2011, the design of the Vita did not incorporate this caution. Thus, the Vita was released at the same time that mobile gaming was greatly expanding, losing potential consumers to that market. John Koller, the former vice president of marketing at Sony, also believed that

9108-399: The Vita, or made playable through the system's backward compatibility with digital PSP games. While the system managed to stay afloat as a minor success, other issues continued to persist, including the high price of the system in comparison to its main competitor, the Nintendo 3DS , and its sibling device, the PS3, the high price of its memory cards used for game and data storage, and

9246-399: The Vita, some initially pre-loaded on the device, while others are available via Sony's PlayStation Store . Pre-loaded apps include an internet browser , a "Content Manager" app for monitoring data saved to the device, an email client , a music app, a photo app, and a video player. The system's web browser supports HTML5 , cookies, and JavaScript , but not Adobe Flash . Also included

9384-432: The Vita, with the Vita being used for the controller input, and the image and sound being transmitted to the Vita's screen and speakers instead of a television . The end result is similar to what a Wii U console does with its GamePad controller through Off-TV Play . The Vita technically has Remote Play functionality with the PlayStation 3 as well, though very few PS3 games supported the feature due to limitations with

9522-451: The Vita/PSP line of handhelds. With the success of the Nintendo Switch and Steam Deck handhelds moving into the 2020s, publications questioned Sony's decision to abandon the market. In 2023, Sony announced "Project Q", a controller with an 8-inch screen for the PlayStation 5 that would replicate the experience of remote play on a Vita or Off-TV Play of the Wii U GamePad . The product

9660-465: The center, the Vita's a part of that." Sony later announced that the Vita will have PlayStation VR integration in the form of a second screen as well. Open beta trials for PlayStation Now functionality on the PS Vita began on October 14, 2014, in North America. The PlayStation TV , released across late 2013 and 2014, also aimed to expand the system's userbase by allowing for Vita games to be played on

9798-478: The challenge and set out to rewrite the Book of Shadows, cutting out the Crowleyanity as much as I could and trying to bring it back to what I felt was, if not so elaborate as Crowley's phraseology, at least our own and in our own words. Valiente rewrote much of it, cutting out a lot of sections that had come from Crowley (whose negative reputation she feared), though retaining parts that originated with Aradia, or

9936-598: The charm, but he joins them, not wanting to let them go alone, sending them on alternative course of actions and encountering several supporting victims in Heavenly Host. The game's epilogue, Blood Drive , serves as the set up to the eponymous sequel . Two weeks after escaping Heavenly Host, Ayumi and Naomi go to investigate the Shinozaki estate, Sachiko's birthplace, believing there is hope in reviving their dead friends since Naho and Kou Kibiki's existences were not erased like

10074-594: The day of Sachiko's birth and death, the curse on her weakens and she gets 24 hours to celebrate her birthday as someone closer to the girl she was before her death. She uses the time loops as established in Corpse Party: Book of Shadows to force all survivors at that point to participate in activities she has set up. Given it is either that or die horribly again, something all are aware that they have already experienced but cannot remember in full, they go along with her demands. The game features almost all characters from

10212-567: The device afloat in the West, in Japan, no such measures were necessary, as the Vita maintained moderate hardware sales. While it was routinely outsold by its main competitor, the Nintendo 3DS, the Vita still managed to be one of the top consoles sold overall, partially due to Japan's preference towards handheld gaming. Strong support by Japanese developers also helped, with companies such as Bandai Namco , Falcom , Koei Tecmo , 5pb , Compile Heart , Spike Chunsoft , and Atlus releasing many games in

10350-427: The device would be using a mix of retail and digital distribution of games. Further details were announced at Game Developers Conference 2011, including that Sony would be dropping the PSP's UMD disc format in favor of small game cartridges of 2 GB or 4 GB size variants. along with two cameras, facial detection, head detection and tracking capabilities. On June 6, 2011, at E3 2011 , Sony announced that

10488-405: The device's official name would be the PlayStation Vita, with the word "vita" being Latin for "life". Mark Cerny was the lead architect of the device. Despite reports of the 2011 earthquakes in Japan delaying the release of the device, Sony reconfirmed that it was on track for a late 2011 release in Japan and a February 2012 release date for other major regions of the world. The release date

10626-425: The device, though in smaller number than in past. The last major Sony-developed title, Freedom Wars , still found success, selling over 188,000 copies in its first week of release in Japan. The debut was the highest Sony game debut for the system, and the second highest, only to Namco Bandai's late 2013 release of God Eater 2 on the platform. In September 2015, Yoshida stated that Sony had no current plans for

10764-514: The device. In March 2016, Sony announced that instead, it would be forming a new company, "Forward Works", and be instead concentrating on bringing PlayStation-based games to mobile platforms like iOS and Android . Despite Sony's focus on the PS4 and mobile for the future, the Vita still continued to receive substantial third party company game support in the way of Japanese-style role-playing games and visual novels and Western-style indie video games through 2017. Minecraft in particular

10902-414: The device. At the 2016 Game Developers Conference , research analyst firm EEDAR estimated the sales of the Vita to be about at 10 million units sold through the end of 2015. Multi-platform releases with the PS4 have also incidentally helped sustain the Vita's stream of software, even in the west, through 2016 and 2017; games receive a Vita version more to appeal to Japan's larger Vita user-base, and receive

11040-417: The elementary school site. The students are transported to Heavenly Host after performing a charm called "Sachiko Ever After ( 幸せのサチコさん , Shiawase no Sachiko-san ) ", which would supposedly allow them to remain friends for eternity. In addition to the five protagonists of the original game, Blood Covered introduces four characters to the playable cast: Seiko Shinohara, Naomi's best friend; Mayu Suzumoto,

11178-410: The end of 2015, research firm EEDAR estimated the sales of the Vita worldwide to be around 10 million. Despite the smaller userbase, the platform continued to be viable for game releases into 2017 due to the high attach rate of software sold per hardware user. Limited Run Games and various indie game developers praised the platform for its wide selection of more original and niche video games, and

11316-425: The end of its lifespan, Vita versions of games began to be cancelled, in favor of PS4 or Nintendo Switch releases. The device is backward compatible with most PSP games; however, its lack of a UMD disc drive limits this capability to those titles which have been digitally released on the PlayStation Network via the PlayStation Store , but not physical PSP games or films. The Vita is also backward compatible with

11454-570: The end of the Timeline they show off "202X" with then the words " Darkness Distortion " followed by the last words of "More Corpse...", which seems to tease a direct sequel to Corpse Party: Blood Drive , which was called " The End of the Heavenly Host Saga ". The game has since had numerous teasers and is planned to release in 2025. The first game in the series was developed using the RPG Maker version RPG Tsukūru Dante 98 software and released in 1996 for

11592-461: The end of the game. The opening theme for Corpse Party: Book of Shadows is "Hana no Saku Basho" by Imai, and the ending is "Pandora no Yoru", by Artery Vein. The opening theme for Corpse Party: Sweet Sachiko's Hysteric Birthday Bash is called "Limited Love" by Imai, and the ending theme is "Tsukigen" by ARTERY VEIN. An insert song, "Hanabi", sung by Yumi Hara , plays at the final scene where Sachiko's birthday has ended and she seemed to have only

11730-471: The eponymous book during its final chapter, in which it is revealed to be an actual Book of Shadows very much in keeping with the description in this article (albeit in the game, there is only one Book of Shadows that exists, containing a complete chronicle of all spells that exist in the entire world, be they Wiccan or not). The Book of Shadows returns in Corpse Party: Blood Drive where it becomes

11868-419: The events of Corpse Party Heavenly Host Arc, implied to be the consequences of the "Book of Shadows'" powers starting to bring about the end of the world by allowing the spirit realm and real world to start to converge together. The setting is Amare Patriarcha Crucis Hospital ( 文月大付属・ 慈愛十字 ( パトリアーカル ) 病院 , Fumizuki Daifuzoku Patoriākaru Byōin , "July University Patriarchal Hospital") fallen into

12006-404: The evidence indicating Gardner invented the Book was that other Neo-pagan witches of the time, such as Robert Cochrane , never made use of such a book. In 1953, Doreen Valiente joined Gardner's Bricket Wood coven , and soon rose to become its High Priestess. She noticed how much of the material in his Book of Shadows was taken not from ancient sources as Gardner had initially claimed, but from

12144-638: The following weeks. Similarly, in the United States, the system debuted with 200,000 units sold in the first month, before slinking down into an amount of about 50,000 a month. 1.2 million units were reported as sold as of February 26, 2012 – after it had launched in most regions. The system continued to get high-profile games over the course of 2012, including Gravity Rush , LittleBigPlanet PS Vita , Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed , Persona 4 Golden , Assassin's Creed III: Liberation , and Call of Duty: Black Ops: Declassified . Despite this,

12282-422: The game Tales of Hearts R was localized into English only because it was number one in a survey of games desired on the platform. Sony continued to support the system with games through 2013 as well, albeit lesser so, with titles such as Killzone: Mercenary and Tearaway , along with a handful of other Western-developed ports such as FIFA 13 and Rayman Legends . While the focus on indie games kept

12420-510: The handheld had reportedly already been shipped to numerous video game developers including both first-party and third-party developers to start making games for the device, a report later confirmed by Mortal Kombat Executive Producer Shaun Himmerick. By November, Senior Vice President of Electronic Arts , Patrick Soderlund, confirmed that he had seen that the PlayStation Portable successor existed, but could not confirm details. In

12558-505: The increasing popularity of smartphones and tablets . In August 2013, Sony addressed the first two, dropping the price to $ 199 in North America and €199 in Europe, and cutting the suggested retail price of the memory cards as well. The price cut also coincided with the release of a slight redesign of the system, the "PS Vita 2000" model. The redesign included making the system 20% thinner and 15% lighter, while adding 1 GB of internal storage, and an extra hour of battery life. However,

12696-501: The internet, seeing if there are downloadable updates available for the software, and seeing a newsfeed -like list of activities related to it, such as installing it or obtaining trophies, for both the user and others the user has interacted with recently. According to review aggregator Metacritic , the Vita's original hardware release was generally well-received with critics, although a few concerns persisted as well. Metacritic editor Jason Dietz noted that reviewers tended to praise

12834-525: The late 1940s or early 1950s, and which he utilised first in his Bricket Wood coven and then in other covens which he founded in following decades. The Book of Shadows is also used by other Wiccan traditions, such as Alexandrian Wicca and Mohsianism, and with the rise of books teaching people how to begin following non-initiatory Wicca in the 1970s onward, the idea of the Book of Shadows was then further propagated amongst solitary practitioners unconnected to earlier, initiatory traditions. Initially, when Wicca

12972-406: The less-powerful PS3 hardware. More PS3 games are available for streaming on the Vita through Sony's cloud gaming service PlayStation Now , though they are streamed over the internet in the form of cloud computing rather than directly from a physical PS3 console. First implemented in 2014, the service was announced to be discontinued on the Vita on August 15, 2017. A revised model of the Vita

13110-477: The low sales through 2013 would lead to an early death for the product. From 2013 onward, Sony was able to reverse the trajectory of the system by changing focus, aiming to be more of a niche product than one with mass market appeal – focusing more on small Western mobile phone games and mid-level Japanese developed games, and attaching it to the rise of popularity of its PlayStation 4 platform with its remote play connectivity functions. Sony also released

13248-625: The majority of the PS one Classics – the group of PlayStation 1 games Sony has made available digitally for download, and PlayStation Minis – small-budget downloadable titles originally created for the PSP and PS3. Games from Sony's PlayStation Mobile initiative had initially been compatible but were removed when the service was shut down in September 2015. In Japan, select downloadable PC Engine and PocketStation titles became backward compatible as well. A number of applications are available to run on

13386-582: The material from the Gardnerian Book of Shadows. In the 1970s, the then Alexandrians Janet Farrar and Stewart Farrar decided, with the consent of Doreen Valiente , that much of the Gardnerian book should be published in its true form. Much of it was published by the Farrars in their 1984 book The Witches' Way . In non-traditional or "eclectic" forms of Wiccan or Neo-pagan practice, the term Book of Shadows

13524-424: The other victims. At the estate, Ayumi discovers that she is of the same lineage as Sachiko. Hearing an eerie voice, Ayumi uncovers a magical tome known as the " Book of Shadows ". Ayumi and Naomi perform a resurrection spell for Mayu, but fail. As compensation for using black magic, the book unleashes its rage upon Ayumi until her older sister Hinoe Shinozaki rushes in and saves Ayumi, at the cost of her own life. On

13662-465: The plot and setting of the original game. Here, the haunted schoolhouse is named Heavenly Host Elementary School ( 天神小学校 , Tenjin Shōgakkō ) , a fictional Fujisawa elementary school that was torn down following the murders and disappearances of several of its staff and students. In modern-day Japan, the main characters' high school, Kisaragi Academy ( 如月学園 , Kisaragi Gakuen ) , has been built over

13800-487: The previous games and some new ones. While a pseudo-horror spin-off at best, it is part of the storyline, setting up a few details to prepare for Corpse Party: Blood Drive . As with Corpse Party: Book of Shadows , there is only one extra chapter. This extra chapter takes place during the previous game and is more conventional horror. It tells of Yoshiki's and Ayumi's encounter with four students from Sugatani Senior High School, notably Azusa Takai. Corpse Party: Blood Drive

13938-529: The redesign did remove the OLED screen in favor of a cheaper LCD screen. Towards the end of 2013, around the launch of Sony's next video game device, the home video game console the PlayStation 4 , Sony began making comments in regard to the change in focus with the Vita. Yoshida stated that Sony would be releasing fewer first party games for the platform. Sony Computer Entertainment's Product Planning & Platform Software Innovation Director Don Mesa stated that

14076-514: The release of the Nintendo Switch , and was completely discontinued in 2019. The system is regarded as a commercial failure in the video game industry , and was significantly outsold by the Nintendo 3DS. No direct successor was released by Sony, though in 2023, a similar remote play accessory, the PlayStation Portal , was released for the PlayStation 5 . After the success of Nintendo 's Game Boy family of handheld game consoles throughout

14214-508: The review aggregator Metacritic . Other releases received "mixed or average" reviews. The video game series has been adapted into four manga series: Corpse Party: Blood Covered , published by Square Enix ; Corpse Party: Musume and Corpse Party: Book of Shadows , published by Media Factory ; and Corpse Party: Another Child , published by Mag Garden . The manga series has sold over 1   million copies, as of May 2015. One original video animation (OVA), Corpse Party: Missing Footage ,

14352-407: The rituals and spells had to be written in a jumbled manner to prevent any non-initiate from using them. More recent scholars however have doubted their authenticity. It seems likely that Gardner told his three subsequent initiatory lines that the book should be copied word for word, and Wiccans descended from Eleanor Bone , Patricia Crowther and Monique Wilson have widely believed that the book

14490-456: The sales trends of the Vita, the lower costs of making or porting smaller-budget games made it easier for developers to make a profit on the system's smaller userbase, and in turn, increased consumer attention on the console, keeping the device afloat. Fez , Spelunky , Hotline Miami , and OlliOlli all found success with releases on Vita. Ahmad also maintained interest in the device by directly interacting with consumers on social media;

14628-452: The same amount as Nintendo's Game Boy Advance had during the sixth generation of video game consoles . This is only a little more than half of the sales of its actual market competitor, the DS, which was more than 150 million units by the end of 2011. Rumors of a successor to the PSP came as early as July 2009 when Eurogamer reported that Sony was working on such a device, which would utilize

14766-418: The same month, VG247 released pictures of an early prototype version showing a PSP Go -like slide-screen design along with two analog sticks, two cameras and a microphone, though the report mentioned that overheating issues had since caused them to move away from the design in favor of a model more similar to the original PlayStation Portable device. Throughout 2010, Sony would not confirm these reports of

14904-576: The same year—down to 12 and then 10 million units sold. With higher-profile games not pushing the system sales enough in 2012, big third-party companies like Ubisoft and Activision started reducing or eliminating support for the system, especially in the West. Additionally, while the Monster Hunter series had significantly boosted the sales of the PSP, its absence instead hurt the Vita. Its developer, Capcom , had decided to release Monster Hunter Tri and future Monster Hunter games exclusively on

15042-629: The spirit. A sequel to Blood Covered , Book of Shadows features a series of nonlinear chapters that add new twists and backgrounds for various characters and details important to the storyline. The game mostly takes place during the same time the first game did, continuing from one of the "wrong ends" in Corpse Party , where Sachiko sends the Kisaragi Academy students back in time. For this purpose, she erases their memories except for Satoshi's. He fails to dissuade his classmates from performing

15180-413: The strong respective sales of them. In mid-2017, Glixel estimated that approximately 15 million units of the system had been sold, while by September 2018, USGamer estimated it had grown to about 16 million units. In a 2021 retrospective by The Verge , Sony employees attributed several factors to the Vita's poor sales in contrast to the PSP, which had an estimated 80 million sales in its lifetime;

15318-489: The system still only managed to sell 4 million units worldwide in its first 10 months on the market, and estimated by analysts to only be at 6 million units sold after two years of availability. After 2012, Sony ceased releasing direct sales figures of the Vita, instead opting to release combined sales figures with it and the PSP. Still, the system under-performed; while Sony projected selling 16 million units of combined Vita and PSP systems, it had to slash its forecast twice in

15456-409: The system's future revised models. Internally, the device features a custom system on chip with a quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore processor and a quad-core GPU SGX543MP4+ . Sony has stated that the Vita generally runs well under its full clock speed due to overheating and battery consumption issues that would ensue, instead placing its processing power "around halfway between the current PSP and

15594-563: The system's release overall. The Vita launched in the west with 25 titles, including original titles such as Uncharted: Golden Abyss and Wipeout 2048 , and ports of games such as FIFA 12 and Rayman Origins . The sales of the Vita started strong at launch but then stalled and greatly underperformed. The Vita had a strong launch in Japan, selling over 300,000 units in its first week of availability, though figures shortly afterwards shrunk down 78% to under 73,000 sold in its second week, and then settled into about 12,000 sold per week in

15732-517: The system, was released across 2013 and 2014. It has all of the same features with a slightly smaller size, extended battery life, and an LCD panel instead of an OLED. Sony released the PlayStation TV , a short-lived, re-purposed version of the Vita that uses a television screen like a home video game console , discontinued at the end of 2015. The Vita's design was intended to meld the experience of big-budget, dedicated video game platforms with

15870-613: The system. Software for the PlayStation Vita is distributed on a proprietary flash memory card called "PlayStation Vita game card" rather than on Universal Media Discs (UMDs) as used by the PlayStation Portable. The shape and size of the card itself is very similar to an SD card . 5–10% of the game card's space is reserved for game save data and patches. The PS Vita is incompatible with standard memory cards , such as SD cards , and instead stores data on proprietary PS Vita memory cards, which are available in sizes of 4 GB, 8 GB, 16 GB, 32 GB and 64 GB. Initially,

16008-542: The system. The two cameras feature the abilities of face detection, head detection, and head tracking. The platform also launched with a model with 3G mobile data support, which required a separate data plan through a data provider. The 3G service has been partnered with NTT DoCoMo in Japan, AT&T in the US, Rogers in Canada and Vodafone in Europe and Australia. The 3G model was discontinued in 2013 and not made available in

16146-644: The then up-and-coming trend of mobile gaming as seen on smart phones and tablets . However, in the year after the device's successful launch, sales of the hardware and its bigger budget games stalled, threatening to end its lifespan. A concentrated effort to attract smaller independent developers in the West, combined with strong support from mid-level Japanese companies, helped keep the platform afloat. Though this led to less diversity in its game library, it strengthened support in JRPGs , visual novels , and Western-developed indie games . This built moderate sales in Japan and

16284-419: The use of commodity micro SD storage media in conjunction with a modified console appeared on the market. All games developed for the PlayStation 4, with the exception of games requiring the use of special peripherals such as PlayStation Camera , are playable on the Vita through Remote Play . With the use of a Vita, PS4, and PS4 game, this allows a PS4 game to be run on the PS4, but its output transmitted to

16422-590: The works of the occultist Aleister Crowley , from Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches , from the Key of Solomon and also from the rituals of Freemasonry . She confronted Gardner with this, who admitted that the text he had received from the New Forest coven had been fragmentary and he had had to fill much of it using various sources. He also stated that "well, if you think you can do any better, go ahead", and Valiente thought that she could, later stating that: I accepted

16560-516: The world will fall into the abyss. This is partially a lie, as the woman is under threat of other organizations to get Ayumi to find the book, which they wish to use for their own gain. After being discharged from the hospital two months later, Ayumi returns to Kisaragi Academy where Satoshi and friends give her a warm welcome. However, the absence of their dead friends is a constant reminder of their inevitable reality. A new teacher's assistant, Kuon Niwa, supervises their homeroom. Later, on her way home,

16698-436: The year after launch in North America. Overall, Sony fell far short of the worldwide sales targets of 10 million Vitas sold by the end of March 2013. The device sold 1.2 million units as of the end of February 2012, 4 million by the end of 2012, and were only estimated by analysts to have reached 6 million by the end of 2013, figures that have not been confirmed due to Sony's ceasing to release Vita sales figures after hitting

16836-925: Was "Near", a social media / GPS like app that allowed the user to see other Vita players in the area, and what games or applications they had been using, with the opportunity for some limited interactivity and communication, although most of its functionality was disabled in 2015. A number of other third party apps commonly found on mobile devices have also been made available on the Vita: Crunchyroll , Facebook (removed in 2015), Flickr (broken), Google Maps (removed in 2015), Hulu , Live Tweet (Sony's third-party client for Twitter ), MLB.tv (broken), Netflix , Redbox Instant (discontinued), Skype (removed in 2016), TuneIn (broken), Twitch , WeatherNation and YouTube (removed in 2015). Facebook, Flickr, Google Maps, Twitter and YouTube no longer function as Vita apps, but continue to be available by using

16974-481: Was ancient, and was practised by the Witch-cult throughout history. According to tradition, Gardner claimed that the Book of Shadows was burned after a person died, so that it would not be discovered that they had been a witch. Gerald Gardner did not mention any such thing as a "Book of Shadows" in his fictitious 1949 novel about mediaeval witchcraft, High Magic's Aid . High Priestess Doreen Valiente claimed that this

17112-403: Was announced by MAGES. and Team GrisGris. It is the spiritual sequel to Corpse Party: Blood Drive . It will launch in 2025 in Japan on PS4, Switch, and PC with Makoto Kedouin returning as scenario writer. The series has spawned several manga works, an anime OVA series, drama CDs , theme park attractions, and two live action films . The plot of the original Corpse Party game concerns

17250-434: Was because at the time, Gardner had not yet conceived of the idea, and only invented it after writing his novel. Valiente made the claim that Gardner found the term "Book of Shadows" from a 1949 edition (Volume I, Number 3) of a magazine known as The Occult Observer . In this edition, she claimed, was an advertisement for Gardner's novel, High Magic's Aid , which was opposite an article titled "The Book of Shadows" written by

17388-510: Was happy and surprised with, sometimes even falling out of stock. Similar response was found in the UK as well. The platform has been considered to have sold well in Japan, where it outsold the PS4 in 2015, and reached 5 million units sold in 2016 according to sales tracker Media Create . It also obtained million-selling software in the same year, with the Japanese Vita release of Minecraft . By

17526-504: Was invigorated in Japan with multiple releases in the Monster Hunter series. With the series being less popular in western regions, it failed to revive the platform in the same way. The PSP ended up being a mixed result for the company. It was seen as a success in that it was the only handheld video game platform that had ever significantly competed with Nintendo for market share, with almost 80 million units sold in its lifespan, roughly

17664-483: Was later named PlayStation Portal and was released on November 15, 2023. XGP Book of Shadows A Book of Shadows is a book containing religious text and instructions for magical rituals found within the Neopagan religion of Wicca . Since its conception, it has made its way into many pagan practices and paths. The most famous Book of Shadows was created by the pioneering Wiccan Gerald Gardner sometime in

17802-481: Was later narrowed down to a December 17, 2011, release in Japan, and a February 22, 2012, release date for America and Europe, although a limited edition was released a week earlier in North America on February 15, 2012, which included the 3G/Wi-Fi model of the device, the game Little Deviants , a limited-edition carry case, and a 4 GB memory card. The Vita launched with 26 titles in Japan, with Sony announcing that there were over 100 titles in development prior to

17940-468: Was not worth the effort to develop for over the upcoming PlayStation 4, leaving the Vita without a strong software library. Koller believed that if the Vita had launched earlier into the PlayStation 3 's lifecycle, they would have been able to capture more interest from developers during that time and build out a more compelling library for the Vita. The Vita was considered a commercial failure for Sony. In 2018, Sony announced there would be no successor to

18078-503: Was of ancient provenance. There sometimes exist two Books of Shadows kept by more traditional Wiccans, one being a coven book of core rituals and practises which remains unchanged and from which new initiates copy, and the second, intended for personal use, which differs from witch to witch and contains magical material collected by the initiate, such as astrology , herbal lore , and information regarding divination . After Gardner's death, his rival, Charles Cardell , published much of

18216-515: Was officially announced by Sony on January 27, 2011, at their "PlayStation Meeting" press conference held by the company in Japan. The system, only known by its code name "Next Generation Portable" (NGP), was announced to be a handheld gaming device that aimed for PlayStation 3 quality visuals, which was later clarified to not be taken at a literal level because, according to David Coombes, platform research manager at Sony Computer Entertainment America , "Well, it's not going to run at 2 GHz [like

18354-522: Was released in Japan on July 24, 2014, on PlayStation Vita , and was released in North America by XSeed Games on October 13, 2015, and on October 20, 2015, in Europe. Another sequel titled Corpse Party 2: Dead Patient was created for the PC by GrindHouse, a dōjin circle founded by members affiliated with Team GrisGris. It was planned to be released episodically, with the first chapter released on May 29, 2013. In August 2023, Corpse Party II: Darkness Distortion

18492-459: Was released in Japan on October 10, 2013, in Europe on February 7, 2014 and in North America on May 6, 2014. The revised model, officially called the PCH-2000 series and commonly referred to as the PS Vita Slim, is 20% thinner and 15% lighter compared to the original model. While it largely maintains the original's overall structure and layout, the original's OLED screen has been replaced with

18630-429: Was released on August 2, 2012. Another OVA consisting of four episodes titled Corpse Party: Tortured Souls , was released on July 24, 2013, and later licensed by Section23 Films . A live action movie adaptation was also made, which was released on August 1, 2015, while a film adaptation of Corpse Party: Book of Shadows was released on June 30, 2016. PlayStation Vita The PlayStation Vita ( PS Vita )

18768-532: Was still dominated by covens , "only one copy [of the Book] existed for an entire coven, kept by the high priestess or high priest. That rule has proved unfeasible, and it is [now] commonplace for all Witches to have their own copies." In the various traditions that make up British Traditional Wicca , copies of the original Book composed by Gerald Gardner with the aid of his High Priestess Doreen Valiente , along with alterations and additions that have been made since then,

18906-438: Was successful for the platform, with it selling over 1.2 million physical copies in Japan alone as of September 2017. The device is considered to have sold fairly well in Japan, and still a crucial part of Sony's overall strategy in the region, while Sony has acknowledged that the device still has a very vocal and passionate user-base in the West as well, with the company still encouraging third party companies to create games for

19044-583: Was titled Ye Bok of Ye Art Magical was later found amongst his papers from the Museum after his death by Aidan Kelly and was later obtained by Richard and Tamarra James of the Wiccan Church of Canada . It appeared to be a first draft of Gardner's Book of Shadows, and featured sections based upon the rituals of Ordo Templi Orientis which had been devised by the occultist Aleister Crowley . Gardner had gained access to these rituals in 1946, when he had purchased

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