Kotaku: Xseed

Xseed Successfully Fishes for Fishing Resort Coverage

Mike Fahey — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:20:00 EST

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Around this time of the year the surprise UPS and Fedex shipments begin to fade and the flow of new games fades to a trickle, making it an excellent time to fish for the illusive video game blogger with a mysterious rainbow suitcase. More »

Paranoia, Madness, Suicide and Cannibalism; Who Says 16-Bit Can't Be Scary?

Mike Fahey — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 13:00:00 EDT

Nine students trapped in an otherworldly school building in which spirits are trying to kill them in grisly ways, if they don't eat each other first; we don't need high-quality 3D graphics where the downloadable PSP title Corpse Party is going. More »

Ys We Can... Play Falcom's Games In America

Michael McWhertor — Fri, 14 May 2010 19:40:00 EDT

Fans of the Japanese style role-playing game, particularly the long-running Ys series, have XSEED Games to thank for bringing a long list of developer Falcom's games stateside, breathing new life into the PSP. More »

What Is Ivy The Kiwi? A New Game With A Sonic The Hedgehog Pedigree

Michael McWhertor — Mon, 03 May 2010 17:40:00 EDT

Former Sonic the Hedgehog producer Yuji Naka has moved on from Sega to Prope, with his latest creation, Ivy the Kiwi?, coming to the Wii and Nintendo DS this summer, courtesy of XSEED. More »

A New, Improved KORG DS-10

Mike Fahey — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:20:00 EDT

Fans of the KORG DS-10 music creation software for the Nintendo DS will be happy to know that cavia, inc. and Procyon Studio are working hard on an enhanced version, aptly named KORG DS-10 Plus. More »

Half-Minute Hero Review: A Good Risk

Stephen Totilo — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:40:00 EDT

Have you ever had your intelligence insulted or your time wasted by a Japanese role-playing game? This one won't do either. More »

Wizard of Oz Preview: Partying Up With The Tin Man

Stephen Totilo — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:30:54 EDT

Thank goodness the new Wizard of Oz game for the DS doesn't closely follow the movie's plot, because this reporter, who played the game recently, could never get through that movie. More »

Half-Minute Hero Preview: Don't Blink And Miss It

Stephen Totilo — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:00:16 EDT

This was the most pleasant surprise of my week. More »

One Weird Wii Control Scheme

Stephen Totilo — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:00:33 EDT

Imagine, if you will, a flying game called Sky Crawlers controlled by Wii remote and nunchuck. Guess the control scheme. You probably guessed wrong. More »

Wii RPG Fragile Coming Stateside Via XSEED

Michael McWhertor — Thu, 28 May 2009 20:20:15 EDT

Namco Bandai and tri-Crescendo's role-playing game Fragile is coming to North American Wiis later this year, thanks to publisher XSEED. If you were a fan of Baten Kaitos or Eternal Sonata, this one's for you. More »

XSEED Bringing Ragnarok Online DS Stateside

Mike Fahey — Fri, 15 May 2009 14:00:00 EDT

XSEED has teamed up with developer GungHo Works to bring the Nintendo DS version of popular 2D online game Ragnarok Online to North America this winter. More »

Muramasa: The Demon Blade Lands New Publisher, Launch Date

Michael McWhertor — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:00:34 EDT

Vanillaware's lovely looking Wii game Muramasa: The Demon Blade (née Oboro Muramasa) is no longer coming to North America by way of publisher XSEED. Instead, publisher Ignition Entertainment will bring it to these shores. More »

Muramasa Loses Its American Publisher

Luke Plunkett — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 23:30:00 EDT

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. More »

Marvelous And XSEED's E3 Line Up - RPG Goodness

Mike Fahey — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:40:00 EDT

Marvelous Entertainment USA and XSEED games are teaming up for E3, showing off their line up of upcoming titles together as one united force of goodness. While the focus is mainly on the Nintendo DS and Wii, there is a PSP game in the form of RPG sequel Valhalla Knights 2 to spice things up. The name of the game here is RPGs, and the two combined have them in spades. For the Wii they've got three outstanding offerings - Rune Factory: Frontier, which takes the RPG/farming sim combo from the DS games to the console market, Avalon Code, a new RPG from the team behind Rune Factory and the Final Fantasy III and IV DS remakes, and the recently announced Little King's Story. More »

Awesome TWEWY DS Was A Present From Nomura

Leigh Alexander — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:00:00 EDT

So the other day when I was visiting Xseed, checking out Valhalla Knights 2 and Little King's Story, I espied this sweet The World Ends With You DS. My photo quality is poor, so the little caption beside it says "It's A Wonderful World." More »

King Me, With Feeling: Checking Out Little King's Story

Leigh Alexander — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:20:00 EDT

We've heard Xseed is publishing Marvelous' Little King's Story on the Wii this Winter (you can stop calling it "Project O" now), and between the gorgeous art style, charming look and the somewhat Harvest Moon-influenced gameplay blend of real-time strategy, adventure and RPG, there's a lot to clasp our hands in hopeful anticipation about. More »

Checking Out Valhalla Knights 2, A Grind-Fan's Dream?

Leigh Alexander — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:20:00 EDT

Publisher XSeed admits that the first Valhalla Knights was just a wee bit of a hardcore grind, targeted squarely at that sector of the Japanese audience - and the non-Japanese fans who share their tastes. More »

Have Your Art In Little King's Story

Leigh Alexander — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:20:00 EDT

Marvelous' upcoming Little King's Story, formerly known as "Project O," has some gorgeous art, so it's not a stretch to guess it might inspire some fan art. With that in mind, Marvelous and its publisher, Xseed, have announced an art contest, with the winner's design to appear in the game. More »

XSeed, Marvelous Team Up, Announce Valhalla Knights 2

Leigh Alexander — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:40:00 EDT

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 »

Wild ARMs Puts Hex On PSP

Mike Fahey — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:00:44 EST

I am convinced that the PlayStation Portable is going to become the best platform for Japanese RPG if they ever get around to phasing out the PS2, and XSEED's announcement of Wild ARMs XF (Corssfire) coming to North American PSPs in Spring of next year only strengthens that belief. The first handheld Wild ARMs game ever, XF is the natural progression of the series from the hex grid system used in the past two console versions into full-on hex-based strategy. It places you on the dying world of Filgaia, where a personal story of revenge slowly transforms into a mission to save the world. Pretty standard for Wild ARMs, really. What isn't is standard is the turn-based strategy, which features over 60 stages, tons of optional battles, and 20 job classes to help customize your party. As a special bonus, the US version includes a 20 track music library accessible from the game's main menu, letting you listen to the game when you shouldn't be playing. Check out the gallery below for tons of portable Wild ARMs goodness. More »

Fake Boxing, Real Boxers

Mike Fahey — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:20:39 EDT

Victorious Boxers: Revolution is coming out for the Wii next week, and the XSEED folks took a copy of the game down to the 3rd Street Gym in San Francisco to see what real boxers think about the anime-flavored pugilist simulation. Apparently it does something to your muscle twitch fibers, whatever those are, and judging by the boxer's general demeanor when he says this, that's a good thing. I'm still on the fence on this one. On one hand, Wii boxing was one of my favorite minigames in Wii Sports. On the other hand, I'm still disappointed that this isn't a game about triumphant underwear. More »

Frankenreview: Valhalla Knights (PSP)

Mark Wilson — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 13:30:45 EDT

Valhalla Knights has a fantastic pitch. From the companies behind Technu and Harvest Moon, it's a 3D hack n' slash with hardcore RPG roots. You can customize up to 6 players in your party. You can play ad hoc with a friend. You can waste your life away for higher MP/HP. And you can actually transcend to a higher level of existence (feature untested). So what did the reviewers think? More »