Category Archives: Marvelous

Marvelous Entertainment as released a new trailer for its horror game, Night of the Sacrifice.

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Japanese game development is dead, huh?

Try telling that to these guys.

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Rising Star Games has announced it publish Marvelous Entertainment’s Xbox 360-exclusive horror title Deadly Premonition in PAL territories this fall.

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Marvelous Entertainment has announced it’s creating a sequel to Half-Minute Hero in Japan.

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Looks like No More Heroes: Heroes’ Paradise has been pushed into April over in Japan for “various reasons”.

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Marvelous has sold 50 percent of its stock in Rising Star Games to Intergrow, a Japanese company that handles video, PC, and mobile games.

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Ignition and Marvelous Entertainment announced today a new survival-horror game for Xbox 360 titled Deadly Premonition.

The game puts players in the role of FBI Agent Francis York Morgan, who’s trying to solve mysteries while investigating a series of murders in a rural and spooky town called Greenvale.

It’s slated for a spring 2010 release, and you can view the teaser trailer on the official website.

Full PR below the break.

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Ignition Entertainment has picked up Arc Rise Fantasia from Marvelous and XSEED, according to Joystiq.

The game, an turn based RPG for the Wii, is the second to be picked up by Ignition from XSEED after Muramasa: The Demon Blade was also picked up by the publisher from XSEED.

The game is out in the West next summer.

Some new shots of No More Heroes 2 have emerged from Japan and, to be honest, they do look swish.

They mostly show Travis’ double beam katana, which is a brand new addition to the series,

Catch them over at Kotaku. It’s due for Wii next year.

Marvelous Entertainment announced yesterday a Japanese release date for Valhalla Knights: The Eldar Saga.

The first Wii title in the series will arrive on October 8, and players will be able to create a custom character, with over 100,000 possible part combinations, and team up with other players for multipalyer via Wi-Fi. Connection.

GameStop has it listed for a September 15 release, and last we heard, it was on for a November release in the UK.

More over on Andriasang, via GoNintendo.

Marvelous Entertainment’s Yasuhiro Wada has weighed in on Nintendo’s core user to casual user ratio, and says that the company needs to focus on its small core userbase to help the games market grow.

“The Nintendo market is pretty humongous right now but I think that’s primarily because of all the light users, the casual users,” he told Gamasutra. “The core userbase for the Wii is really still small. One of the things that Nintendo is trying to do, like with the Motion Plus, is try to make it more advanced and more friendly to the gamer-gamer.

“But it’s still not enough because Sony and Microsoft are starting to do the same sorts of technology. In those cases they are still weak, but I think it’s really important to have more core titles such as Zelda and other titles from Nintendo to grow that core market area, so the whole market can grow as well.”

Wada goes on to state that while Marvelous creates plenty of games for Nintendo consoles, it is only bound to those platforms due to not using HD during the development process.

“It’s not like we really are in love with Nintendo, we’re in love with making good games. Some of those just happened to appear on all those Nintendo platforms. We’re in love with all the other platforms as well, so we orient any game to whichever platform.

“A lot of different companies are going to HD-heavy platforms, meaning their technology isn’t really so advanced that they can really utilize it. And because of that the idea part doesn’t have to be that solid but the technology is enough for people to play. I don’t think that Marvelous is at that level of technology yet, so that’s why we have to really fight with our ideas game planning and game design.

“At a certain point we will reach that place and we can advance to multiple platforms and different other venues.”

Yasuhiro Maekawa, the US president for Natsume, has said that mid-sized companies can benefit from digital distribution because there is less competition than what exists at retail.

“I think that Natsume, and also publishers in general have a big issue right now,” he told Gamasutra. “Basically, there are so many titles out there, but retailers, store shelves are very limited. If you go to Wal-Mart, they have one case there, which may hold 48 titles. However the top row is all Nintendo titles, second row, all EA.

“Which means the middle-size publishing companies like us, if it’s Reel Fishing or the Harvest Moon franchise, or maybe Afrika, they might possibly show interest. But if it’s our original titles, and we have some more original titles here, it’s very tough to sell to retail stores.

“In that case, the online downloadable content becomes viable. Plus the development costs are not as high as in the package business. So for us, I think it’ll do well.”

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Marvelous is considering porting the likes of No More Heroes and Muramasa: The Demon Blade to Xbox 360 and PS3, Siliconera reports.

In fact, the publisher appears to be looking at moving its large Wii catalogue HD-ward, if a slide in a financial presentation is to be believed.

There’s no detail apart from that, but hopefully there’ll be more soon.

Marvelous is to release a PS3-only Grasshopper game, according to this Siliconera report, and it’s against its better judgement, from the sound of it.

“If we do that [game] we might go bankrupt,” Yasuhiro Wada, Marvelous president joked.

“We are making it, but if we make everything then it’s a little too risky.”

Has to be awesome, innit. No details on what it actually is. Hit the link for more.