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Far Cry 3 And The Stranger In A Strange Land 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.
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?
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?
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!
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.
What is it with Wii games losing publishers? First Fatal Frame, now Muramasa – which was about the best-looking thing due on the console in 2009 – finds its American release up in the air.
We have little doubt that Vanillaware and Marvelous Entertainment are targeting the tinglier areas of otaku with Muramasa: The Demon Blade, what with all the sexy bath time and fetishistic character designs.
Screenshots for upcoming role-playing-game Arc Rise Fantasia featured a female character Lesley with the lower part of her breasts exposed. That is, before the Wii game’s website was relaunched.
Folks are fluttering around on the Japanese internet about the boxart similarity between these two games. Kwinky-dink or sinister thievery?
Japanese anime, music and game company Marvelous Entertainment is asking for a number of its employees to retire. The exact number, according to Marvelous, is “in the range of 20″ workers (about 17 percent).
