Outsourcing overlord Tose is feeling the sting of the recession.

Is Starfy Nintendo’s next star? Nintendo is promoting the smiling starfish that way.

TOSE is always lurking in the shadows, secretly developing games. Their portfolio includes The Legend of Starfy and tons Square Enix ports like Chrono Trigger. This year TOSE is taking care of Active Life: Extreme Challenge for Namco Bandai and we inquired how TOSE did.

New details on the next Legend of Stafy game, Densetsu no Stafy: Taiketsu Daiiru Kaizokudan, reveal Stafy can transform into a whale and a chicken. In the Kyuugoma suit Stafy can swim fast through the water and ram into other underwater creatures. When Stafy dons the chicken outfit a small group of baby chicks follow [...]

It’s been two years since the last Legend of Stafy game and Tose is making some changes with Densetsu no Stafi: Taiketsu Daiiru Kaizokudan (Legend of Stafy: Confrontation! Daiiru (?) Pirate Brigade). The starfish character has a new ability that lets him transform into creatures like a dragon. While in the Dranpa suit Stafy can [...]

To create a game that doesn’t mimic grim, exhibitionist reality down to the finest detail, to elicit an appreciative ‘awww’ from even the most macho jocks or emo teens, to appeal to the innocence in all of us desensitized media drones – who amongst you can decry the dwindling efforts towards cuteness in the game [...]