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!’”

Right on the bottom of Rising Star’s 2009 release list is Valhalla Knights: Eldar Saga. Marvelous officially announced the online RPG made for Wii at Tokyo Game Show last year with an ambiguous Japan gets this sometime in 2009 target. Now we know Europe will get an English version in November 2009. And if Europe [...]

After many delays, Little King’s Story is almost done. Rising Star Games really is releasing it this spring and Europe will be the first region anywhere in the world to get Little King’s Story when it ships on April 24.   Great to see Rising Star Games and their parent company Marvelous push to premiere [...]

Rising Star Games gave updates on two of Marvelous’ Wii projects. Elusive Little King’s Story must be nearing completion if it’s going to ship in spring 2009 like Rising Star plans. We haven’t heard much about shy Corobo in North America or Japan where the game is being developed so there is a chance Little [...]

Despite what Nintendo’s 2009 winter lineup says I wouldn’t count getting Little King’s Story in February or any time soon for that matter. Little King’s Story doesn’t even have a release date in Japan yet.   Rising Star Games released a new gameplay video today to show us development is still prodding along. That’s good [...]

After I played Muramasa: The Demon Blade at TGS I wanted to know when I would continue my adventure past seeing Kisuke standing on a wooden boat rocking in gorgeous 2D waves. Marvelous noted Vanillaware would be done with Muramasa: The Demon Blade sometime next year. Rising Star Games, Marvelous’ European arm, is more specific [...]

Rising Star Games, Marvelous’ European arm, is doing what they do best which is localize games published by Marvelous for Europe. The niche puzzle/platformer Steal Princess will get an English release in Europe. Climax’s game gets off to a slow start with a long introduction and over a dozen tutorial levels. Hmm… I wonder if [...]

Rising Star is advertising Flower, Sun, and Rain with 100% less actors than Marvelous did in Japan. Their plan is to parallel the DS game with Groundhog’s Day. The neat thing to see in their trailer is how the puzzles work in the DS version. As you may already know, Flower, Sun, and Rain was [...]

As rumored back in May, Rising Star will publish Flower, Sun, and Rain in Europe this October. However, there are no concrete plans to bring Suda51’s adventure game to North America yet. Chances are very good it will be picked up since Flower, Sun, and Rain is already localized in English. The question is more [...]

I mentioned a March release window for Rising Star Games’ Wii-Make of Harvest Moon: Magical Melody before, but let’s replace that with an exact date. European gamers will finally be able to play Harvest Moon: Magical Melody on March 14. Natsume released this back on the Gamecube back in March 2006.   However, since this [...]