The information actually comes from Martin Defries, managing director and COO of Rising Star.

Rising Star Games has a title that doesn’t originate from Marvelous or any other Japanese studio in their 2008 line up. This explains why XG Blast looks so different from Rising Star’s usual catalog of RPGs and Harvest Moon games. XG Blast is an arcade style shooter with a spaceship and aliens. You shoot [...]

We previously reported this as a rumor, but today it’s official. Europe is getting Dungeon Maker: Mahou no Shovel to Chiisana Yuusha on September 19. In PAL territories Rising Star Games, who also published Dungeon Maker: Hunting Ground, will simply call it Dungeon Maker. The game is a dungeon crawler with the twist of [...]

Recently, Rising Star hasn’t announced many games from their Japanese counterpart, Marvelous Interactive. Instead the European publisher is busy distributing Baroque, Growlanser: Heritage of War and LOL, better known as Bakushow in the region.
 
However, in the latter half of 2008 Rising Star may be shifting their focus. We already reported Lux Pain, a Marvelous published [...]

And it’s probably Rising Star. Marvelous Interactive who published the Killaware designed game earlier this year and you may have forgotten about Lux Pain by now. Maybe you never heard of it. This trailer should help get you up to speed.
 
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INz1AF55PEw[/youtube] 
 
The short story is Lux Pain is an adventure game where you scratch the bottom [...]

Global A Entertainment, who developed the underappreciated Dungeon Maker: Hunting Ground, gave their dungeon creator/crawler series another go on the Nintendo DS last year with Dungeon Maker: Mahou no Shovel to Chiisa na Yuushya. The title is something like Dungeon Maker: The Shovel of Magic and the Tiny Hero and as the title explains players [...]

In September ‘06 Marvelous released a flight simulator on the PSP called Pilot ni Narou Flying All-Stars. Rising Star, Marvelous’ European publishing arm, naturally localized the game for Europe in 2007. To date no North American release has even been considered since Marvelous isn’t open for business yet.
 
However, budget publisher Valcon Games may be [...]

Despite netting a 2008 release window, the Wii version of Harvest Moon: Magical Melody mysteriously vanished from Rising Star’s homepage. After so many delays I feared it may have gotten a quiet axe, but this isn’t the case. I contacted Rising Star and they assuaged my worries. The website was shuffled around a couple of [...]

After its absence from the media, I spoke to Rising Star Games about the Wii version of Harvest Moon: Magical Melody. I was told the game is currently undergoing Nintendo of Europe’s approval process and their website announcement confirms this news.
 
So when is it coming out? Maybe next year. Even if it passes approval Rising [...]

We are starting to hone in on when No More Heroes is going to come out. Japan gets it in winter 2007 and it looks like Europe is getting it in early '08 care of Rising Star Games.
 
The year ahead promises more exciting games in the ‘Harvest Moon’ series for Nintendo DS & Wii alongside [...]