"Rising Star Games has today revealed its line-up for 2009. Consisting of over ten exciting new titles from Japan, the selection includes casual titles Harvest Fishing, Animal Kororo and Mah-Jongg, highly anticipated Role-Playing Games Steal Princess, My World My Way and Avalon Code as well as the impressive Rygar: The Battle of Argus and Valhalla Knights: Eldar Saga. The 2009 line-up will also continue to be promoted under the ‘Home of Japanese Games’ campaign, which runs for the duration of ..."

In the latest issue of Weekly Famitsu, it was announced that Marvelous was bringing its Valhalla Knight series, which the first two games were on the PSP, to the Nintendo Wii, in the form of Valhalla Knights: Eldar Saga.

Players will be able to create and customize their own characters, with up to four different races available. As characters level up and go on quests, players can choose how the stat points are distributed. Newly-equipped weapons and armor will also reflect themselves on...

Announced in this week's issue of Weekly Famitsu is a new Action RPG for the Wii--Valhalla Knights: Eldar Saga, which is being published by Marvelous Entertainment. This series first got its start on the PlayStation Portable, where the first two games were released. This third game now shifts to the Wii, bringing with it its multiple character races and job classes. The game will also feature multiplayer over the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection.

Valhalla Knights: Eldar Saga is set to release ...

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...

"In a press release sent out today announcing a partnership between Marvelous Entertainment and XSEED Games, Valhalla Knights 2 was officially announced and scheduled for a fall 2008 release. This is the first title that will be published and distributed by the newly formed partnership.

Valhalla Knights 2 is the sequel to the original Valhalla Knights for Sony's portable system. Valhalla Knights 2 will, according to the press release, add new job classes, races, weapons, spells and other i..."

Seeing as though truly original videogames are somewhat of a rarity on the PlayStation Portable, GamerSquad recently turned its all-seeing eye to the European arrival of Rising Star and K2's Valhalla Knights. With what promises to be an epic handheld RPG we duly probed the game's producer for related insight.

"Valhalla Knights is a lot like your ex-girlfriend -- there will be moments when you have a great time together, but you won't be able to shake the feeling that you can do better.

I'm all torn up inside, readers. See, Valhalla Knights succeeded at impressing me with fun, real-time combat, completely pissing me off with drawn-out quests and eventually driving me away due to the complete lack of anything resembling story progression.

From the get-go, you know things are a bit discombobulat..."

"Valhalla Knights is a game that offers a wealth of potential positives in character construction and basic action RPG mechanics but ultimately fails due to excessively repetitive gameplay. With a basic, uninspired plot full of RPG cliches offset by a reasonably solid character development scheme and large dungeons to explore, Valhalla Knights's focus is clearly on exploration and combat. However, despite a wide variety of classes, races and equipment, gameplay becomes very tedious very fast, ..."

"Valhalla Knights is a game set in a small town beset by a curse. The castle of Paladi has been put under an evil spell, causing it to fill to the brim with all sorts of nasty monsters. So what's a young hero to do? Clearly, there's nothing for it but to clear the place out and save the town.

The flow of Valhalla Knights's gameplay is straight out of a classic dungeon crawler. The player is given the basic in-town resources, such as a shop, an inn, and a guildhall, with which to recruit new..."