As of today, Arc Rise Fantasia will be handled by Ignition Entertainment. After hearing the news I contacted Ken Berry, Director of Publishing at Xseed.

The deal between Marvelous and Xseed must have changed since Ignition Entertainment is now bringing Arc Rise Fantasia to North America.

Little King’s Story is on deck. Beyond that Marvelous has many more games coming to North America and I asked Marvelous rapid fire questions about them.

Arc Rise Fantasia and Luminous Arc both have “arc” in their name, but they are not related. Even though they are separate entities a few familiar faces from Luminous Arc found their way into Arc Rise Fantasia.

Marvelous is pushing pre-orders of Arc Rise Fantasia with a massive bonus. Reserve the game in Japan to get a Design Works book filled with illustrations, enigmatic “special” book, and a soundtrack CD. Yasunori Mitsuda who worked on Chrono Trigger and…

Arc Rise Fantasia, an RPG developed by Imageepoch and published by Marvelous for Wii, is nearing completion. Japan will see the game in stores on June 4 in Japan. Xseed and Marvelous USA will publish Arc Rise Fantasia in North…

Back at Tokyo Game Show I caught with Ryoei Mikage, the President of Imageepoch, and Hideyuki Mizutani, Operating Officer at Marvelous Entertainment. We talked about a lot of things. You already know about one of them. We touched on Arc…

Marvelous and Xseed are teaming up again to bring Flower, Sun, and Rain and Arc Rise Fantasia in North America 2009. I tried out the battle portion yesterday and similar to Tales of Symphonia there aren’t any random battles. Enemies…

Xseed, we know you’re busy with Retro Game Challenge, Muramasa: The Demon Blade, and a rebalanced version of Valhalla Knights 2 which comes out this week. After you’re done with those please pick up Arc Rise Fantasia. We know Marvelous is…

While both titles share the word Arc, Image Epoch’s two games are not in the same universe. Luminous Arc has players hunt witches and oversee isometric, tactical RPG battles on the DS. In Arc Rise Fantasia you hunt impure dragons…