Looks like there’s a new Senran Kagura coming! In an upcoming issue of Famitsu, a new entry in Marvelous’ unapologetically pervy ninja series will be announced. There are hints that it could be VR.
Former Xbox Japan honcho Takashi Sensui has joined Tokyo-based game company Marvelous as Executive Vice President, Nikkei reports. Previously, Sensui had returned to the U.S. to work at Microsoft after Xbox Japan went pear-shaped.
Game Delayed Due to a Lack of Pre-Orders
Here’s what happens when you stop pre-ordering games, I guess.
The First Five Unskippable Minutes Of Ys VI: The Ark Of Nap-Something
One of my favorite PlayStation 2-era action role-roleplaying games is now available on Steam. How much Ys nostalgia can I cram into five minutes?
Mega Man creator Keiji Inafune's 3DS action-RPG about a pirate penguin, Kaio: King of Pirates, has been cancelled due to internal development-related difficulties and "sudden changes in the marketplace," reports Siliconera. Kaio was announced in late 2011, and was slated to come out, after a delay, in 2014.
Japanese Publisher Accused of Trying a "Hostile Takeover" of Indie Studio
Small indie studio Checkpoint had a deal with Japanese publishers Marvelous to release two games by the end of 2012. Those titles, AviNation and Party Politics, are both now out.
Half-Minute Hero is coming to the PC. It'll be out on September 27. Please watch the trailer.
Followars Makes Turn-Based Battles Out Of Twitter
Japanese Harvest Moon publishers Marvelous Entertainment has unleashed Followars onto the iPad, a two-player game that turns your Twitter followers into combatants in turn-based role-playing battles to the death.
Harvest Moon Creator Steps Down
Yasuhiro Wada, honcho of Japanese company Marvelous, will be leaving his post as Director of Digital Contents on March 31.
Arc Rise Fantasia Is As Pretty As Eight New Pictures
Ignition Entertainment is gearing up to release "the definitive JRPG for the Wii" this summer, and eight new screenshots show us how much that looks like a Namco Bandai Tales of Something title.
No More Heroes 2: Now With Playable Henry
Don't bother trying to understand this trailer for No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle, set to hit the Wii in January, just sit back and enjoy it.
Arc Rise Fantasia Looks Like This
Here's a set of screens for Arc Rise Fantasia for the Wii, to go along with the announcement that Ignition Entertainment will be publishing the game in North America next summer.
Ignition Brings Arc Rise Fantasia Westward
Ignition Entertainment and Marvelous Entertainment have announced that the former will be responsible for publishing Imageepoch's turn-based Wii RPG Arc Rise Fantasia in Summer 2010.
Marvelous And XSEED's E3 Line Up - RPG Goodness
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…
King Me, With Feeling: Checking Out Little King's Story
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…
Checking Out Valhalla Knights 2, A Grind-Fan's Dream?
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.
Little King's Story To Hit PAL Territories In Q1 2009
We just found out that Marvelous Entertainment's Wii-exclusive"Project O" has a real name, if you haven't heard: Little King's Story. It's due for a Winter 2008 release in North America, and today we learn that it will hit the PAL territories in the first quarter of 2009, being published by Rising Star Games (Xseed …