"Part of the challenge in Rune Factory Frontier is to learn various trades from farming and foraging to crafting and cooking, which help to bring the city to life. There are seasonal variations in the weather affecting the type of crops that can be grown throughout the year."

"Highlights from February include the mind-meltingly mental Half-Minute Hero on PlayStation Portable (PSP). This brilliantly original title fuses classic gaming mechanics with bite-sized thirty-second gaming to create one of the format’s most audacious twists on the Role-Playing Game (RPG) genre. Animal Kororo, a ludicrously cute Puzzle game will also be published on Nintendo DS this month."

In a press release today, Nintendo has announced release dates for a number of games headed for the Wii and DS in the first quarter of 2009 in North America. Some of the more notable games are as follows:

Wii

D3Publisher
Onechanbara™ Bikini Zombie Slayers™ - February

Hudson Entertainment
FISHING MASTER WORLD TOUR - Jan. 6
Marble Saga Kororinpa™ - Spring

Majesco Entertainment
Major Minor's Majestic March - March

Marvelous Entertainment USA
Little King's Story - Feb. 17
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In a press release sent out today, Marvelous Entertainment and XSEED Games have announced that they will be co-publishing two more games for North America, as they had revealed in an earlier interview. While one of those games was already confirmed to be Muramasa: The Demon Blade, they have now confirmed the other two games.

Those other two games will be Arc Rise Fantasia for the Wii, and Flower, Sun, and Rain for the DS. Arc Rise Fantasia is a RPG developed by imageepoch, where "contain...

"Harvest Moon: Frontier

From the creators of Harvest Moon and Rune Factory for the DS comes the first installment of Rune Factory for a home console. Developed exclusively for Wii, Rune Factory: Frontier features stunning graphics and takes full advantage of the Wii’s unique controls to fully immerse players in the Rune Factory universe. Rune Factory: Frontier incorporates an open-ended structure which allows players to choose the type of game they wish to experience. Whether it’s growing c..."

With the 2008 E3 Media & Business Summit only three days away, companies attending the event are still releasing their PRs revealing their E3 lineups.

The latest of which are Marvelous Entertainment USA and XSEED Games, who in May had agreed to a co-publishing agreement for Marvelous's US titles. Combined, there are seven games in the publishers' E3 lineup, with four fallings under the companies' co-publishing deal, while the last three will be released solely by XSEED Games.

The first...