Category Archives: Rising Star

Rising Star’s managing director, Martin Defries, has said the firm will be taking control over the US publishing arm of Marvelous. Speaking with MCV, Defries said: “We were given an opportunity to take over the US publishing business of our former parent company Marvelous Entertainment, to rebrand that as Rising Star Games Inc and to build a successful subsidiary.” Defries also said Rising Star has “an existing publisher in the US” with “strong roots into the market,” but didn’t reveal the name of the firm. There’s no word at present on how this will affect Marvelous USA’s publishing deal with Xseed Games, which is owned by Marvelous AQL. Rising Star USA’s very first North American title will be Akai Katana for Xbox 360.

Rising Star’s announced it’ll bring the entire BIT.TRIP Collection to Europe as of Q1 2012, All six games from both Complete and Saga – Beat, Core, Void, Runner, Fate and Flux – will all get an outing for EU on Wii and 3DS. Managing director Martin DeFries said it was “hugely excited” it would publish the collection. A new Bit.Trip, Runner, was recently announced for PSN and XBLA.

Rising Star Games have revealed their plans for a robust ‘Pre-order Package’ that will be rewarded to those who place an order for their upcoming sprite-based fighter King of Fighters XIII.

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Rising Star Games is pleased to announce it’s moved over 1 million units of Harvest Moon games in Europe and Australia.

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Rising Star confirmed today that Harvest Moon: Grand Bazaar will launch in PAL regions this year for DS. The latest in the Natsume farm sim series will feature “windmills to let you combine ingredients to make goods to sell at the Bazaar,” “a new jump movement” to get over hills and streams, and a returning horse festival. Sounds fancy. Look at shots of it over on Nintendo World.

Goichi Suda has reiterated his desire to add another entry to the No More Heroes series.

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Grasshopper boss Goichi Suda has told NowGamer that although No More Heroes 2 will be the winding-up of the story of Travis Touchdown, he will do NMH3.

But there’s a catch, kids.

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Rising Star Games has confirmed No More Heroes 2 will get a European release at the end of April.

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Rising Star Games has revealed that it will continue to publish the catalogue of Marvelous Entertainment, despite the latter selling a 50 percent stake in the company over the weekend to Intergrow.

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Rising Star’s announced that Half Minute Hero will release in Europe on February 12.

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It’s Christmas. You want a bit of cheer. You’ve been pissed for three weeks already and in danger of losing your job. What you need is a cheap copy of the superb Muramasa to make a fast-approaching life on the dole more palatable.

Luckily, then, Rising Star is offering all VG247 readers 33 percent off its entire catalogue until 3.00pm GMT tomorrow, Friday December 18. This is an exclusive: no other site’s offering this.

All you have to do is go here, use the code “VG247.COM” and spend some money.

The discount means Muramasa: the Demon Blade, is now £20.09. Luminous Arc 2 – complete with limited edition soundtrack CD – is also £20.09. Little King’s Story is an almost irresistible £13.39.

Don’t be stupid. Buy something. Merry Christmas!

Ju-On: The Grudge has a bit of humor included in the horror game by way of two meters that track your bravery and level of fright.

UGO got hands-on time with the Wii title and after failing a mission, this brief message popped up below the meters:

“A total wuss. That’s what you are. Zero courage. Why don’t you lock yourself in your bedroom and write poetry or something.”

According to an Xseed representative, players must input their gender and astrological sign into the game for customized ribbing should you fail a mission.

Like we aren’t called names enough in our daily lives.

Game’s out in October on both sides of the pond.

Wii horror JU-ON: The Grudge will release in Europe this fourth quarter, Rising Star said today.

This is good news, if you like a scare. This is the game of the film, basically.

Press release after the break.

Update: It’s actually out in October, says Eurogamer.

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According to this, Suda 51′s No More Heroes has been put back slightly in Europe to March 14, a delay of a week.

The Wii game has attracted high praise at review, but only managed to sell 40,000 in its native Japan, faring better in America with sales of 100,000. It sounds awesome, so make sure you buy it when it hits, Euro Wii owners.