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Harvest Moon Studio, The Last Story Studio Are Marvelous Together

6:00PM May 10, 2011 | Brian Ashcraft

Marvelous Entertainment, the studio behind the Harvest Moon farm simulators, is merging with AQ Interactive, which recently did The Last Story for Nintendo, and Liveware, a software contents company. [


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Sexed-Up No More Heroes 2 Figures Are Finally Here

10:00AM April 26, 2011 | Michael McWhertor

No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle’s Sylvia Christel can soon straddle a beam katana on your toy shelf, thanks to the sculpting talents of master toymaker Mitsumasa Yoshizawa who brings the Grasshopper Manufacture creation to life in pricey polyvinyl chloride form. Ready the wallet! More »


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3DS Games Won’t Send Developers Broke, But…

11:00PM November 22, 2010 | Brian Ashcraft

Never mind that we don’t know how much a Nintendo 3DS game costs to buy, developers need to develop the games first. And that costs money. More »


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Marvelous Entertainment Is Trying To Stay Alive

6:00PM June 7, 2010 | Brian Ashcraft

Marvelous Entertainment has published titles like Harvest Moon, No More Heroes and Little King’s Story. It has seen better days. More »


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Twitter Becomes A Japanese Role-Playing Game

7:00PM April 1, 2010 | Luke Plunkett

Even those who find social networking tool Twitter a vapid waste of time might be interested in this, a new role-playing title from Japanese publishers Marvelous that takes a person’s Twitter feed and builds a game out of it. More »


Half Minute Hero Review

8:40AM October 16, 2009 | Stephen Totilo

Have you ever had your intelligence insulted or your time wasted by a Japanese role-playing game? This one won’t do either. Half-Minute Hero, XSeed and Marvelous Entertainment’s unusual, experimental role-playing game is smart, sharp, surprisingly long—given its title—and sloppy in a way that somehow doesn’t break the game but instead makes it all the more charming. More »


See Valhalla Knights For Yourself

10:40AM September 1, 2009 | AJ Glasser

My preview of the upcoming Valhalla Knights: Eldar Saga for the Wii seems to have a lot of people up in arms about graphics, gimmicks and general Wii scepticism. More »


Half-Formed Half-Minute Hero Impressions: Why Am I Naked?!

3:40PM August 29, 2009 | AJ Glasser

Another game Stephen Totilo got to first that I was curious about was Half-Minute Hero, the game where you really only have 30 seconds to beat a level. More »


Valhalla Knights: Eldar Saga Preview: Making The Jump To Home Consoles

12:20PM August 29, 2009 | AJ Glasser

The Valhalla Knights games (all two of them) have been confined to the PSP since 2006, but now they’re finally making the jump to home consoles. More »


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Sakura Note, For The Nintendo DS

11:00PM August 28, 2009 | Luke Plunkett

Marvelous Entertainment’s creative experiments with Nintendo platforms just keep on keepin’ on, with the release later this year of Sakura Note, an adventure game for the DS. More »