We spoke with Toshinori Aoki, Executive Managing Director of Digital Contents, and Daniel Kurtz, Business Development Coordinator, about the merger, their thoughts on new hardware, and publishing partners for North America.

Siliconera learned that as of last month Yasuhiro Wada and Yoshiro Kimura are no longer at Grasshopper Manufacture.

DeNA have signed on some major talent like Keiji Inafune, Suda 51 and Yuji Naka to develop for their Mobage service.

Take a look at how the Harvest Moon games have done on the Nintendo DS, ever since Harvest Moon DS in 2005.

Natsume announced the pre-order bonus for The Tale of Two Towns today.

Natsume say that the first Harvest Game for the Nintendo Gamecube is the best-selling title in the series so far.

Later today, Reel Fishing II and Harvest Moon: Back to Nature will be available on PlayStation Network as a downloadable PsOne Classic.

We catch up with creator of Harvest Moon and new COO of Grasshopper Manufacture, Yashuhiro Wada, to find out what he’s up to.

We catch up with Marvelous Entertainment to talk about the company’s plans in the short-term and their intention to focus on established brands and social-networking.

Wii Party, White Knight Chronicles and Harvest Moon. Something for everyone.

Rising Star discuss what life has been like after the split with Marvelous Entertainment, Harvest Moon, the otaku market, and where the company plans to go from here on out.

But spiritual successor Rune Factory is catching up, Rising Star revealed to Siliconera.

Marvelous, after docking executive pay and selling off Rising Star Games, is scaling back video game development.

Harvest Moon has returned to the PSP with Harvest Moon: Hero of Leaf Valley. This time, it’s more story-based than most Harvest Moon games.

With the popularity of farming games on the rise, we spoke with Graham Markay, Vice President of Operations at Natsume, about the rise of FarmVille, if it affected the Harvest Moon series in anyway.

Natsume is already busy with the next Harvest Moon game, a localized version of Harvest Moon: Welcome to Wind Bazaar.