News

Harvest Moon Studio, The Last Story Studio Are Marvelous Together

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. [


April 26, 2011
In Real Life

Sexed-Up No More Heroes 2 Figures Are Finally Here

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!


November 22, 2010
News

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

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.


June 7, 2010
News

Marvelous Entertainment Is Trying To Stay Alive

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


April 1, 2010
News

Twitter Becomes A Japanese Role-Playing Game

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.


October 16, 2009

Half Minute Hero Review

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.


September 1, 2009

See Valhalla Knights For Yourself

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.


August 29, 2009

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

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.


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

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.


August 28, 2009
News

Sakura Note, For The Nintendo DS

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.