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"The Walt Disney Company is reportedly seeking to fully buy out UTV Software, which is the parent company of Ignition. Disney already owns 50.4% of the company, but has offered to buy the company in full for 454 million dollars. The reason for the proposed acquisition lies mostly with UTV's reach in the realm of Bollywood films and TV shows, so a full takeover would mean all of that belongs to Disney."
Today, Nintendo has unveiled a new budget lineup in Japan: Minna no Osusume Selection, or the "Everyone's Recommendation Selection". Unlike most other budget rerelease lineups like Player's Choice, Greatest Hits, or PlayStation the Best, which are based on retail sales, the Everyone's Recommendation Selection are based on user ratings gathered from the Minna no Nintendo Channel (Nintendo Channel) in Japan. The criteria for being considered is having earned either a bronze, silver, gold, or ...
"Rising Star Games has announced the appointment of a new columnist at their Hoshi Club – the online destination for videogame fans to find out the latest details on Rising Star Games’ videogame releases and insight into Japanese culture. Following the signing of ex-Edge deputy editor, David McCarthy, Alex Sim-Wise shall have her own personal space to write about videogames, Japanese culture and pretty much anything she wishes."
"The irrepressible UK publisher Rising Star Games have revealed the release dates of the remaining titles on their 2010, including fantastically original games for both Nintendo DS and Wii. Including a number of titles from Rising Star Games’ “The Home of Japanese Games” range, Rising Star Games are set to prove that, once again, they are one of the leading third-party publishers for traditional gaming on Nintendo consoles."
"As the grand opening of this year’s London Games Festival, London MCM Expo was always going to be knee-deep in sweet gaming goodness, giving visitors hands-on experience with upcoming epic titles such as Bandai Namco’s Tekken 6, Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed II and Monster Hunter Tri from Capcom. Now three more top developers give you a sneak peek at what they’ve got planned for October’s Expo."
"On Fate/Unlimited Codes, 411mania writes:
In 2007, French-Bread posted an April Fools' Day joke in which the company announced that it was developing a 2D hand-drawn fighter based on Type Moon's Fate/stay night franchise. Since French-Bread was also responsible for the popular Melty Blood games, many fans were convinced that there was something to the joke, especially considering how good the fake screenshots were. Melty Blood itself was first revealed in an April Fools' Day joke, so there..."
Speaking with Siliconera in a post-E3 phone interview, Ignition Entertainment's Business Development Director Shane Bettenhausen went into detail about the localization of the publisher's upcoming Wii title, Muramasa: The Demon Blade, which was developed by Vanillaware.
The most noteworthy news is that the game will not feature an English dub, and will only have a Japanese voice track. Bettenhausen goes further into how Ignition was able to obtain Muramasa, and the circumstances in which ...
"Thousands of gamers, anime fans and cosplayers of widely varying quality descended on ExCel, an exhibition centre in London, for one of the biggest events in the collective industrys’ calendar today, the 15th MCM Expo. Running for two days, 23rd May and 24th May 2009, those few Electronic Theatre readers who managed to miss today’s show may just have enough time to organise the necessary travelling arrangements, and grab that Bomberman outfit they’ve been saving for a special occasion."
"Rising Star Games will also be demonstrating upcoming titles including Avalon Code, Luminous Arc 2, Angel Cat Sugar and Happy Party with Hello Kitty & Friends, as well as conducting battle challenges on Valhalla Knights 2 and hands-on walkthroughs of the critically acclaimed Little King’s Story."
The latest post on Marvelous Entertainment's Tokyo Game Show 2008 blog has a post written by Louis from their License & Localization Group, who handles games overseas. In the post (which is available in both Japanese and English), Louis announces that there will be a new unannounced game that Marvelous will reveal on the first day of the show. This is game also unknown to the Japanese press, for a full-on new game announcement. He also states that it is from a "charismatic Japanese creator...
In the latest issue of Nintendo Power, it is revealed that Vanillaware's upcoming Action RPG, Oboro Muramasa Youtouden, will be seeing a US release, being published by the partnership of XSEED Games and Marvelous Entertainment. This is one of the games that XSEED and Marvelous hinted that would be localized. The localized title for Oboro be Muramasa: The Demon Blade, and no release date has been announced as of yet.
Vanillaware is the developer responsible for the gorgeous 2D PS2 games O...
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