Are you insane with envy that Japan got Half-Minute Hero 2, the sequel to Marvelous Entertainment's lovely satirical PSP role-playing game, but we never did? » 11/12/12 2:30pm 11/12/12 2:30pm

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. [Marvelous Entertainment] » 5/10/11 4:00am 5/10/11 4:00am

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! » 4/25/11 8:00pm 4/25/11 8:00pm

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. » 11/22/10 7:00am 11/22/10 7:00am

Marvelous Entertainment has published titles like Harvest Moon, No More Heroes and Little King's Story. It has seen better days. » 6/07/10 4:00am 6/07/10 4:00am

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. » 4/01/10 4:00am 4/01/10 4:00am

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 skepticism. » 8/31/09 8:40pm 8/31/09 8:40pm

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. » 8/29/09 1:40am 8/29/09 1:40am

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. » 8/28/09 10:20pm 8/28/09 10:20pm

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. » 8/28/09 9:00am 8/28/09 9:00am

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? » 7/02/09 7:20pm 7/02/09 7:20pm

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. Huh?! There's no crying in video game publishing! » 6/17/09 6:40pm 6/17/09 6:40pm

Grasshopper Manufacture, the developer behind Wii franchise No More Heroes, is working on a PS3 game — perhaps that rumored Kafkaesque title? Who knows? President of Marvelous Interactive, Yasuhiro Wada, does. » 6/17/09 12:00am 6/17/09 12:00am

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. » 4/20/09 11:30pm 4/20/09 11:30pm

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. » 4/17/09 9:20pm 4/17/09 9:20pm

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. » 3/31/09 4:00am 3/31/09 4:00am

Folks are fluttering around on the Japanese internet about the boxart similarity between these two games. Kwinky-dink or sinister thievery? » 3/27/09 2:30am 3/27/09 2:30am