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Read More »Marvelous start as Japanese firm re-releases Half-Minute Hero on PC
Marvelous AQL has announced the upcoming PC release of Half-Minute Hero – and the game will mark the first digital game from its new European team. The Japanese publisher is a serious player in the digital games space in Japan, but is now hoping to build a similar business in …
Read More »Little King’s Story creator forms new studio
Yoshiro Kimura to focus on creating smaller titles at Japan-based development outfit
Read More »Marvelous sets up UK social and mobile publisher
The Japanese publisher behind No More Heroes is coming to Europe. Marvelous AQL – the result of last year’s merger between Marvelous Entertainment, AQ Interactive and mobile developer Liveware – has created a new subsidiary MAQL Europe. The firm will be based in Tunbridge Wells and headed up by CEO …
Read More »Japanese publisher Marvelous opens UK studio
Kent-based company to focus on social and mobile gaming
Read More »Big name devs head to Grasshopper
Grasshopper Manufacture, the studio owned by cult developer Goichi Suda, has snared two of Japan’s leading developers from fellow studio Marvelous Entertainment. Yasuhiro Wada, the creator of the popular Harvest Moon series, and Yoshiro Kimura, whose most recent title was Wii hit Little King’s Story, have both jumped ship to …
Read More »Heavy wage cuts at Marvelous
Marvelous Entertainment will make dramatic cuts to the wages of its key executives and staff, reports suggest. Company CEO Haruki Nakayma will reduce his wages by 77 per cent, with directors hit by a 25-43 per cent salary cut. And according to news site Siliconera, other executives at the firm …
Read More »Heavy wage cuts at Marvelous Entertainment
Going gets tough for the multimedia outfit as CEO salary is cut by 77%
Read More »Rising Star retains Marvelous rights
Intergrow buys Marvelous Entertainmentâ??s 50% stake in RSG but firm agrees new publishing deal
Read More »PSP delivers for Marvelous
Flying in the face of what you might guess to be the case, Japanese production company Marvelous Entertainment has admitted that it has seen far greater returns from its PSP operations this year than it has from its Wii business. Siliconera reports that the firm said that three of its …
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