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Harvest Moon creator Yasuhiro Wada’s new game, HomeTown Story, has been confirmed for localised release.

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Harvest Moon creator Yasuhiro Wada has dropped a new title on his new village shop simulation, formerly known as Project Happiness – meet HomeTown Story.

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Deadly Premonition creators Yasuhiro Wada, Tomio Kanazawa and Hidetaka “Swery” Suehiro have more than one horror game in the works, and at least one of them is grotesque enough to elicit a shocked reaction from Wada himself.

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Yasuhiro Wada, the man behind one of the most non-violent gaming franchises imaginable, is driven to create his paradise gaming worlds by the mayhem of mainstream release.

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The new game from harvest Moon creator Yasuhiro Wada has players running a village shop.

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Harvest Moon creator Yasuhiro Wada has said in a Siliconera interview he’d like to work on a new IP with Deadly Premonition creator Swery at Toybox.

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Rising Star Games and Harvest Moon creator Yasuhiro Wada have today announced the first project from the latter’s new studio, Toybox, known under the codename Project Happiness.

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Yasuhiro Wada believes the success of Farmville has helped grow the Harvest Moon fanbase.

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During his GDC presentation on Harvest Moon, Yasuhiro Wada hinted at the possibility of two new installments of Deadly Premonition, one possibly a sequel and the other an enhanced version of the original for PS3.

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Harvest Moon creator Yasuhiro Wada has dropped a few slim clues as to the first project from his new company, Toybox Inc.

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GDC organizers have announced the return of Classic Game Postmortems, and this year’s line-up includes talks on Harvest Moon, Gauntlet, Alone in the Dark, and Fallout.

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Yasuhiro Wada has wandered back out of obscurity, at the head of a brand new company called ToyBox Inc.

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Yasuhiro Wada and Yoshiro Kimura have left Grasshopper Manufacture, according to a report on Siliconera.

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Japanese game development is dead, huh?

Try telling that to these guys.

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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.”

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.”

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