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Half Minute Hero Review

8:40AM 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 »
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See Valhalla Knights For Yourself

10:40AM 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 »
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Half-Formed Half-Minute Hero Impressions: Why Am I Naked?!

3:40PM 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 »
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Valhalla Knights: Eldar Saga Preview: Making The Jump To Home Consoles

12:20PM 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 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 »
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A Better Look: No More Heroes 2 New Dual Beam Katana

8:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Publisher Marvelous Entertainment has sent out “new” No More Heroes 2 screenshots. “New” because most of them showed up in a May issue of Japanese game mag Famitsu. More »
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Muramasa: The Demon Blade’s 108 Swords

2:00AM Brian Crecente
Muramasa: The Demon Blade looks amazing, and it sounds like it’s amazing to play. But with titles like No More Heroes and Arc Rise Fantasia under its belt, can Marvelous Entertainment get it to sell? More »
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Marvelous May Bring Its Wii Games To PS3 & Xbox 360

9:20AM Michael McWhertor | Japanese publisher Marvelous Entertainment hasn’t seen the success on the Wii that it might have envisioned. Releases like No More Heroes, Muramasa: The Demon Blade and Arc Rise Fantasia haven’t captured the Wii audiences attention just yet. What to do? More »
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Marvelous Entertainment On Wii Sales: T_T

8:40AM Michael McWhertor | The Wii may be king of the console market, but some publishers, like Marvelous Entertainment of Japan, are having a hard time recouping their costs to the point of tears. What?! There’s no crying in video game publishing! More »
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Grasshopper Manufacture’s PS3 Title Is “Risky”

2:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Grasshopper Manufacture, the developer behind Wii franchise No More Heroes, is working on a PS3 game — perhaps that rumoured Kafkaesque title? Who knows? President of Marvelous Interactive, Yasuhiro Wada, does. More »