Marvelous Entertainment’s strategy of slowing down paid off. This quarter their video game division booked a profit.

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

In two weeks, Marvelous will release another Ikki Tousen beat ‘em up for PSP. Ikki Tousen: Xross Impact is getting a decent marketing push too with commercials… costume damage commercials.

Not the kind of thing you would usually see together, but in the world of Ikki Tousen or Battle Vixens anything can happen.

The story picks up from Ikki Tousen: Great Guardians and has a new scenario. Six characters, including a never before seen fighter, rounds the playable roster to 22.