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Sunday Comics: Dead Island Yasuhiro Wada (Harvest Moon) and Yoshiro Kimura (Little King’s Story) joined the No More Heroes developer about a year ago. Now, they’ve apparently left. Kotaku‘s following up. [Siliconera]
Before there was FarmVille (ugh), there was Harvest Moon (yay). The newest entry in the farm sim series, Harvest Moon: The Tale of Two Towns, is headed for the DS and 3DS. [via GameSpot]
Some times flash games are good because they’re funny. Sometimes they’re good because they have some sort of gimmick, or a single mechanic worth fleshing out. But every now and then there are flash games that are awesome because they’re simply very well made fun games. Desert Moon is one of those games.
Earlier this year, Tokyo-based Grasshopper Manufacture snagged Akira Yamaoka of Silent Hill fame from Konami. This month, it also signed two more “name” developers.
Yasuhiro Wada, honcho of Japanese company Marvelous, will be leaving his post as Director of Digital Contents on March 31.
Fathers are easy to find in video games. When they’re not antagonising their offspring or killed off in the first level, they often serve as our main characters’ major motivation.
Natsume has revealed their full game line up for E3 2009, and this time around only 40% of the games have Harvest Moon in the title.
The Entertainment Software Association continues to regrow after last year’s exodus, with Harvest Moon publisher Natsume casting their lot with the industry trade organisation.
