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HOLY SHIT.

Spoiler for Mangagamer might licence the Higurashi series:

At their Anime Expo 2009 booth, MangaGamer was passing out flyers about 07th Expansion’s Higurashi no Nakukoro ni. According to the flyer, there are plans for MangaGamer to release a localized version of the original doujin release this fall. They also have a laptop running a promotional video about Higurashi.

That completely got me as a surprise. On the other hand, I'm not really satisfied with it either, as I personally know, that the Sonozaki Sisters are doing a fine job so far, and eventually they would have done all (at least most) of the Higurashi Arks.
As far as I know, that's the first such an event ever, where someone licenses a title, which already had an ongoing (ie at least partially patched) localization project. I personally would have preferred if Mangagamer would have announced something else, like Nitro+ games or EVE series etc.

Edit. The other thing bothering me is that now I have to buy it for the second time, as I got the japanese version delivered here some time ago.
Edit2: they might also adapt Shuffle too, which still has a contradictional TL project going (the translation is unreachable somewhere afaik). IMO it appears they are a bit inconsiderate about fantranslations...