http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/kotaku.com.png http://kotaku.com/tag/harvest moon http://kotaku.com/tag/harvest moon Yasuhiro Wada (Harvest Moon) and Yoshiro Kimura (Little King's Story) joined the No More Heroes developer about a year ago. Now, they've apparently left. Kotaku's following up. [Siliconera] More »
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There's a new Harvest Moon game for the Nintendo 3DS. The game's publisher, Natsume, also has a title called Gabrielle's Ghostly Groove on the way for the platform. Yet despite both of them being finished and ready to go, they've been delayed. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5834617&view=rss&microfeed=true Before there was FarmVille (ungh), there was Harvest Moon (yay). The newest entry in the farm sim series, Harvest Moon: The Tale of Two Towns, is headed for the DS and 3DS. [via GameSpot] More »
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Earlier this year, Tokyo-based Grasshopper Manufacture snagged Akira Yamaoka of Silent Hill fame from Konami. This month, it also signed two more "name" developers. More »
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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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Yasuhiro Wada, honcho of Japanese company Marvelous, will be leaving his post as Director of Digital Contents on March 31. More »
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Fathers are easy to find in video games. When they're not antagonizing their offspring or killed off in the first level, they often serve as our main characters' major motivation. More »
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Natsume has revealed their full game line up for E3 2009, and this time around only 40% of the games have Harvest Moon in the title. More »
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Mothers have it tough in video games – they get killed off, turned evil, or their children leave the nest to save the world. And their kids probably don't call home often enough. More »
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The Entertainment Software Association continues to regrow after last year's exodus, with Harvest Moon publisher Natsume casting their lot with the industry trade organization. More »
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Harvest Moon creator Yasuhiro Wada says "the games industry worldwide is in danger if we keep making sequels," just weeks before the 19th installment of Harvest Moon hits PSPs in Japan. More »
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The ever-reliable Famitsu has the skinny on a new installment in cutesy farming saga Harvest Moon. More »
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Another one? It seems like barely a week since HM: Island of Happiness hit the shelves, but Marvelous Interactive are bringing out another dose of the only socially-acceptable form of hardcore farming fun: Harvest Moon: Welcome to the Wind Bazaar. More »
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Load up on the flouride and check your blood sugar. Über-sweet farming/life simulator Harvest Moon: Island of Happiness has been confirmed for release on the Nintendo DS on August 26th. More »
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Back at E3, we had a chance to check out some of the titles Natsume is publishing in the US. Titles like Rune Factory 2 for the DS. It's of course the second Rune Factory game, which is best explained as Harvest Moon meets fantasyland. The game's going to be out this fall, and here's something I didn't know about it: Rune Factory 2 has over 9,000 words of text. That's a lot of text! For those not into the fantasy element, the DS and the Wii will both see new Harvest Moon games. Bring on the farming and marrying! More »
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The Harvest Moon farm/life sim franchise is coming up on ten years old! Natsume will toast the anniversary with not one, but two new games "later this quarter," and promises tons of commemorative goodies, too. More »
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Corporate confusions! When Harvest Moon developer Natsume decided to found a pachinko company a few years back, it could've picked any name for the new company. Natsume didn't and instead gave the pachinko company a corporate game moniker we all know: Atari. Here's what the CEO of Atari Inc. says about the company's name on its English page: More »
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Eee! Singing sheep! Nexon's not-new-but-new-to-the-US MMORPG Mabinogi is moving to open beta as of this coming Wednesday. The Harvest Moon-meets-MMORPG has already been through a closed beta and pre-open beta test run, apparently to a good response. You can sign up at the Mabinogi website or over at FilePlanet. I'm a total sucker for stuff like this, so I'll be wandering over to check it out. Full release after the jump: More »
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Well the comments from last week's VC Update were overwhelmingly in favor of continuing, and that's probably a good thing as this week sees the release of one of the hardest to find titles for the original SNES. Harvest Moon sows its seeds on the Wii Virtual Console this week, with 800 Wii Points worth of raising animals, growing crops, and luring unsuspecting country girls into an ultimately loveless marriage where you sit around playing Lords of Thunder all day long while she sits in the barn crying for her lost youth. What's Lords of Thunder? Why it's this week's second VC release. A TurboGrafx CD side-scrolling shooter (800 Points), LoT casts you as a legendary warrior taking on six stages of combat in order to stop the resurrection of Zaggart: "The Dark One" to the dulcet sounds of the best in gaming metal. Raising livestock and blazing guitar rock - it seems like last Monday was not a good day to die. More »
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Leigh Alexander of the Aberrant Gamer/Sexy Videogameland/Worlds In Motion is a woman after my own heart, and her latest AG column is on one of my favorite games, Harvest Moon. What does your HM mate selection say about you? Rather, does playing the field - or not - reflect on you, or on media more generally? Having spent many an hour, especially while jet lagged, flinging chickens, petting cows, and building up the farm empire of my dreams, that whole marriage thing is usually the last thing I get around to - I'd rather have sheep producing golden fleece and a prize-winning horse. So, I tend to pick the potential spouses that look most low-maintenance, being a little too lazy to play the field - but Alexander throws herself into the task of wooing virtual women (or men) with aplomb: More »
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Yasuhiro Wada is best known for cult hit barnyard RPG Harvest Moon. But he's also busy running Marvelous Interactive! You'd think a guy who's had creative and business success would be content. Wada still has things he'd like to do — grand plans if you will. Plans that include a Spore-like game. Wada explains: More »
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I don't know if it is a testament to my own quirkiness or not, but my favorite game of E3 '07 wasn't some next-generation console title brimming with flashy graphics due out sometime next year, but rather a game for the Nintendo DS due out next month. As part of the 10th Anniversary of the Harvest Moon franchise, Natsume is gearing up for the release of Rune Factory: A Fantasy Harvest Moon on Nintendo's handheld on August 14th. Take all the crop growing, harvesting, fishing, and courting you'd normally find in a Harvest Moon title, and then add in a healthy dose of hack and slash dungeon exploration and you get Rune Factory, described by producer Yoshifumi Hashimoto as "Harvest Moon where you wield a sword." More »
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Fans of Harvest Moon need not plant a million vegetables so that watering time can extend the length of the game, Natsume is coming out with a slew of Harvest Moon games just for you. The entire Natsume E3 lineup includes: More »
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Once again proving that game names make good eatery names comes this: a restaurant with the same name as farming sim Harvest Moon. Writes reader JAS: More »
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In an upcoming television commercial, fourteen year-old actress Mirai Shida shows that while playing Harvest Moon: Tree of Peace, farm crap grows in your room. Hit the jump for lofty photographic claims. More »
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The ever lovin' Faith over at Destructoid has posted a great list of what she considers to be fourteen of gaming's guilty pleasures. It's quite a list and populated, as one might expect, with a lot of cutesy poo games like Animal Crossing, Harvest Moon and the Pokemon Series. Reading over the list, I was mortified that I play almost half the games on it. That is a lot of guilty gaming for one person, although I tend not care so much what people think of my game choices. I mean come on, I have a pink DS with Mario stickers on it. Does it sound like I care? More »
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Just in time for Earth Day, which is today (living in Taipei, where a layer of suspicious-looking black gunk coats every exposed surface on my roof, I didn't even notice), Game Daily brings us a list of the top 10 planet friendly games. A couple of my pet favorites are on here: Katamari, Animal Crossing and Harvest Moon (I'm not sure farming has ever looked so fun and environmentally friendly as it does on my DS) all make the list, along with some unexpected choices like Grand Theft Auto. More »
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Yasuhiro Wada has two new games hitting handhelds: Innocent Life: A Futuristic Harvest Moon for the PSP and Harvest Moon DS. And he's got a version of Harvest hitting the Wii! Wada has been around. He knows things. And he likes Grand Theft Auto. So, what's his advice to Nintendo regarding the Wii? More »
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The farming RPG Harvest Moon for the Nintendo DS offers a plethora of new features and functions says the new issue of Nintendo Power. Kotaku tipster Ben scanned the article, giving us the low-down. While the game will offer the usual farming, farming and more farming, here's what's new: More »
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Thanks to websites that translate, I was able to read the story at Jeux-France about a new Harvest Moon title in the works for the DS. From the stiff translation: "Announced like an alternative of the series of Harvest Moon, Rune Factory will make it possible to the player to create his own history in a world of Fantasy RPG in which many possibilities will be offered to us. In addition to the fact of being able to venture in the world which surrounds us..." More »
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The Japanese commercial for the DS version of Harvest Moon for Girls is up. Glad they choose "amazed girl" over "farmer's daughter." It sounds like the gal in the commercial says, "ushi, ushi," which means "cow, cow." Yes, I know it's a farming game, but it's still strange. I've never said that once while playing any game. Ever. More »
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