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Deadly Premonition: The Director’s Cut publisher Rising Star Games has revealed a pair of North American pre-order DLC packs exclusive to GameStop. They will launch on PS3 alongside the game April 30.

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Deadly Premonition: The Director’s Cut is coming to a PS3 near you, and publisher Rising Star Games has posted three gameplay trailers to whet your appetite for SWERY’s weird and arguably wonderful thriller.

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Rising Star Games has announced its 2012 North American release schedule, which includes four new 3DS and DS titles. Full thing is below.

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Rising Star Games has announced Aksys will exclusively distribute the company’s 2012 North American line-up starting with Akai Katana, the developer’s side-scrolling adventure for Xbox 360. The game places players in a “parallel world resembling Japan’s Taisho period,” where the player must utilize the power behind the world’s Blood Swords for “leverage, and fight alongside rebel warrior kin.” It releases later this spring.

Rising Star Games wants folks to hold off on purchasing Deadly Premonition from Xbox Live Games on Demand due to a issue a pricing issue. Apparently, the game went live yesterday with a £19.99 price tag instead of the planned £14.99. A Rising Star representative has told Eurogamer the firm is working on rectifying the matter, and until then, people are warned “not to purchase the title at this current time.”

Rising Star Games has announced Harvest Moon: Frantic Farming for DS and Harvest Moon: Hero of Leaf Valley for PSP will hit UK and Europe soon.

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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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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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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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Rising Star games has announced it will publish tri-Cescendo’s Wii title, Fragile: Farewell Ruins in PAL territories.

“Fragile has a great team of creative designers who in turn have brought to life a beautiful art style that pushes the limits of the Wii console without compromising on gaming quality,” said Tyrone Walcott, product manager at Rising Star Games.

“This announcement will delight European gamers and the Otaku community. Rising Star Games has again shown its commitment to bring the best games from Japan.”

Fragile is about a boy exploring a world that has lost its population with his flashlight.

Fragile: Farewell Ruins is scheduled for a Q1 2010 release.

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Goichi Suda told attendees at the Nordic Game Conference that many different films and actors inspired Grasshopper Manufature’s No More Heroes – most notably Dirty Harry, Jackass: The Movie, and Spaceballs.

During Suda’s presentation titled “The Birth of No More Heroes”, he showed films clips from  movies that prompted the ideas prevalent in the game.

Some of the antics in the Jackass movie provided the background and design for the game character Travis Touchdown, mainly Johnny Knoxville being beaten up by Butterbean and getting bitten on the nipple by a baby alligator.

Spaceballs was the inspiration for the beam katana, the city of Santa Destroy was based on the depiction of San Diego in Clint Eastwood’s Dirty Harry (actual setting was San Francisco), and the hotel in Memento was the inspiration for the hotel in the game.

Travis Touchdown was modeled not only after Knoxville, but UFC/Pride champ Josh Barnett who was also the basis for Destroyman. A bit of Scarlett Johansson can be seen in Sylvia , Henry can lay claim to bits of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis, Dr. Peace got his characteristics from Charles Bronson, and Thunder Ryu was Japanese pro wrestler Genichiro Tenryu.

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