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I don't particularly want to admit that Natsume's Gabrielle's Ghostly Groove 3D is my favorite game on the 3DS, but when I play a game every chance I can get for two weeks straight I feel I should mention it. Be gentle. 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 »
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Natsume has big news connected to the screenshots of Rune Factory: Tides of Destiny which they released on their facebook today. More »
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Farming and fighting it's all the same, until it comes to the PlayStation 3, gets Move support, and looks this pretty. Stand back while I hug Rune Factory: Tides of Destiny. More »
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Natsume is adding another role-playing game to the PlayStation Portable's lineup this fall when Adventures to Go hits GameStop shelves October 29. More »
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Afrika, first released in Japan last year, has often been compared to Pokemon Snap. Both fairly and unfairly. And guess what? Those comparisons are totally on the money. 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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Sony Computer Entertainment and Rhino Studios' safari and photography sim Afrika is finally coming to North America, publisher Natsume has announced, giving PlayStation 3 owners a chance to experience the gorgeous game on Western shores. More »
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Just when you thought everyone was jumping ship, the Entertainment Software Association welcomes two new companies to its ranks. 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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Look! It's a rare, collectible, plush squirrel! Do you even need me to tell you what game this an Amazon-exclusive pre-order goody for? No, of course you don't, not because it's obvious, but because you will buy ANYTHING to get your hands on a rare, collectible....did we mention collectible? A rare, collectible, plush squirrel. This isn't just some average, run-of-the-mill, mass-production plush squirrel. You don't give a squirrel like this to a baby and let it chew on it for hours. No. This is a vacuum-sealed in a glass case squirrel. *drools* 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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Harvest Moon publisher Natsume has a new IP - it's called Princess Debut, a "rhythm and adventure game for girls" coming to Nintendo DS in the fall. 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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One of my favorite games at last year's E3 was Natsume's Rune Factory: A Fantasy Harvest Moon for the Nintendo DS, a bizarre melding of Harvest Moon farming with action RPG. Now Natsume announces the imminent arrival of the sequel, Rune Factory 2, heading to the Nintendo DS this fall, featuring all of the monster-fighting, girl-wooing, crop-planting action of the original with an all-new storyline and the ability to eventually take on the role of your son, should the aforementioned wooing work out for you. 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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Japanese RPG fans, rejoice. Japan-based publisher Marvelous Entertainment announced a co-publishing partnership with L.A.-based XSeed, who's best known for Shadow Hearts: From The New World and Wild Arms 4 and 5. Through the deal, Marvelous, who among other titles publishes Natsume's Harvest Moon series, gains more North American presence, while XSeed gets to publish some of Marvelous' upcoming games here in the U.S. More »
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Omega Five! Great little shooter. The Xbox Live Arcade game features an unlockable "retro mode" where the game's graphics and the sound go 16-bit! You know what, that's pretty neato. The score was done by game music vet Hiroyuki Iwatsuki, who apparently has been inspired more by game music than anything else. (Word has it he hadn't even heard the Beatles until he started working in the game industry!) Iwatsuki says this about XBLA: More »
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Hudson and Natsume's Omega Five was originally scheduled to hit Xbox Live Arcade sometime in November, but that's obviously come and gone and we're without the game. It looks like Xbox 360 owners may finally get the side-scrolling shoot 'em up as early as next week, as Console Monster indicates a January 9th release date. It was certainly one of my highlights at last year's Tokyo Game Show, so I'll be first in line. No solid word on pricing yet, but the Forgotten Worlds-esque shmup looks like it's worth the scratch. More »
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Hudson's Omega Five isn't sorta great, it's really great. And by "really great," we mean really great. At TGS, we played the crap outta it and are very much looking forward to downloading it. Gamasutra's Brandon Sheffield has posted a Q&A with Hudson director Daisuke Sato. Hudson is publishing, but Natsume (Wild Guns, Harvest Moon) developed the game with a small five person team. That, however, is not why the game is called Omega Five. Doh! Sheffield asks Sato if the game is an Xbox 360 exclusive: More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=318015&view=rss&microfeed=true As a closet shmuppet, Omega Five for Xbox Live Arcade was already on my list of must-have titles simply on the merit of its genre. Seeing it in action in this trailer has only served to put it on the list of games I will bring back in the makeshift time machine I fashion in the year 2037 to make sure I get to play it before everybody else. Seriously, I need this game right now. Why must you tease me Hudson? More »
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Hudson's Xbox Live Arcade shooter Omega Five may have been unfairly lost in the noise of the thunderous announcements of Rez HD and Ikaruga for the Xbox 360, but anyone interested in shmups simply must take a moment to learn more about the game. Developed by a five person team at Natsume, Omega Five immediately won me over with one of its playable characters. She's not only sporting some revealing Brazilian cut bustier get up that's apparently perfect for space battles, she immediately cemented the game's similarities to my personal favorite arcade shooter of all time, Forgotten Worlds. More »
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As blank Dreamcast disc supplies begin to dwindle, could Xbox Live Arcade become a new haven for scrolling-shooter fans? With games like Triggerheart Exelica, Ikaruga, and this game here, Hudson's Omega Five coming to the platform, shmuppets might have good reason to pick up a 360 in the coming months. Omega Five is a a hardcore side-scrolling shooter featuring 360 degree shooting, five characters with unique special attacks and weapons, and local co-op. It looks gorgeous, and with Natsume working with Hudson it should either end up excellent or inadvertently a farming sim. Welcome to the age of digital-delivery shmuppery! 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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