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Monday, October 13, 2008
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Fun and the Future: Masaya Matsuura on Gaming Today

7:30AM Maggie Greene | Masaya Matsuura of NanaOn-Sha (PaRappa et al.) has a wonderful opinion piece over at Gamasutra on the future of gaming. You may not agree with all of his assertions, but it’s nice to read something so passionate on the subject of where gaming is today and where it’s headed. Based in part on his DICE 2008 presentation, Matsuura has an obvious fondness for the Wii and the implication for future games: More »
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Tuesday, December 11, 2007

PaRappa Creators Re-Team For Wii Exclusive

3:20AM Mike Fahey | PaRappa fans rejoice! The award-winning team of artist Rodney Alan Greenblat and legendary musician and game designer Masaya Matsuura is back, this time bringing together their awesome talents for an exclusive music-based game for the Nintendo Wii, coming in late 2008 from Majesco Entertainment. While details on the project are basically non-existent, just the fact that these two are working together on a new game is enough to get me all tingly. Majesco CEO Jesse Sutton has high hopes for the title. “We are incredibly excited to be working with talent of this calibre and believe our game shares the same broad mass market appeal as successful music-based products like Activision’s Guitar Hero and MTV’s Rock Band.” Okay really high hopes, but that’s understandable. Being a huge fan of the PaRappa series (Jet Baby is my personal hero), I’ve got high hopes too. More »
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