Little King’s Story and Chulip creator, Yoshiro Kimura, has started his own company.

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

Amazon is beating Black Friday to the punch by discounting a ton of games.

Citing lackluster sales and a fear of going bankrupt like former partner Cing, MMV are shifting their focus away from developing new original properties.

The four games under the Xseed/Marvelous partnership reached total shipments of 95,000.

New to the mobile game is a social interaction system by which you can exchange treasures with other players.

Going forward, Yasuhiro Wada will be acting as an adviser to the company.

Did you know Little King’s Story had a multiplayer feature that had to be scrapped from the final build of the game?

This week, we talk about what affects the appeal of a Japanese game in the West. Joining us is Ken Berry, Director of Publishing at Xseed.

Marvelous Entertainment candidly stated during a financial presentation they lost money on three out of the four Wii titles published in the first half of 2009.

Little King’s Story just came out in Japan and to promote it Marvelous crowned a struggling musician with 100 Whoppers.

Did you unite the world with King Corobo yet? There may be more Little King’s Story coming in the future.

King Corobo doesn’t start out with much of a kingdom. His throne is in a run down shack and his subjects are carefree adults that spend their days spinning in circles. Somehow, you’re supposed to lead this rural town towards world domination.

A photo from Xseed’s booth at Anime Expo.

Seeing townsfolk crowd around Corobo and the watercolor graphics also gives Little King’s Story a warm and charming feel similar. But why design a game where the player is a king? During the demo I asked Yoshiro Kimura, Producer of Little King’s Story.

Strange, but true! The original concept for Little King’s Story had a vegetable kingdom. In an interview Yoshiro Kimura, Director of Little King’s Story, explains, “I remember getting excited and saying, ‘Lets make a game to rival Animal March! But lets make it about a castle made of vegetables!’”