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There are just four weeks to go until we celebrate the Top 30 Women in Games and the winners of the six special categories are announced. The Women in Games Awards take place on May 19th at the Hamyard Hotel, London. Tickets cost just 49 and are available by simply …
Read More »Rising Star Games steps onto Steam
Deadly Premonition: The Director’s Cut will be Rising Star’s first release on leading downloads store Steam. The horror game has been approved for release through Steam’s Greenlight system, whereby PC gamers vote for games they want to be published. It has always been part of our expansion plans to move …
Read More »Deadly Premonition calls for Steam Greenlight votes
Rising Star Games has started a Steam Greenlight appeal to release Deadly Premonition: Director’s Cut on PC. The Director’s Cut version of the survival horror game was released for PS3 earlier this year, improving on the Xbox 360 original with overhaul visuals, tweaked controls and additional content. The Steam version …
Read More »Rising Star hires Nintendo’s Mathers
UK publisher Rising Star Games has hired two industry veterans, including Nintendo of Europe’s Martin Mathers. Mathers joins as production co-ordinator, leaving his role as online editor at Nintendo’s European HQ in Germany. Prior to this, he gained more than a decade of experience as a games journalist, writing for …
Read More »Beyblade game ‘vital’ to toy and TV revamp
Rising Star Games has signed one of its biggest publishing deals to date with Beyblade Evolution. The 3DS title will be the first glimpse fans get of the revamped Beyblade: Shogun Steel TV series and toy line that are due later in the year. It also ties up loose ends …
Read More »Deadly Premonition getting Director’s Cut re-release in early 2013
Rising Star Games has announced Deadly Premonition: The Director’s Cut, which will be released in the West in Q1 2013. The update – which is exclusive to PS3 – will include new controls specifically aimed at improving the combat and new content including a new scenario by the game’s makers. …
Read More »3DS headlines Rising Star’s autumn line-up
Rising Star Games will release four titles for Nintendo 3DS in the run-up to Christmas. The UK publisher’s autumn 2012 line-up kicks off in September with cerebral platformer Shifting World, which features a striking black and white art style (pictured). This will be followed by Girls’ Fashion Shoot in October, …
Read More »What’s Out Today? w/e May 11th, 2012
Sci-fi action fans can now pick up Sony’s Starhawk for PS3. The multiplayer-centric shooter is the spiritual successor to 2007 PlayStation hit Warhawk. Players take on the role of a hired gunman and battle for control of planets. The new Build and Battle system allows them to turn the tables …
Read More »Japanese trio headline Rising Star’s summer line-up
Rising Star Games is putting its weight behind three flagship titlesthis summer. Akai Katana?will be Rising Star’s first pan-Atlantic release following the opening of its US arm earlier this year. It will arrive in May, alongside Rune Factory Oceans on PS3. Harvest Moon: A Tale of Two Towns, the franchise’s …
Read More »Former Midway PR boss heads up Rising Star US
Phil Robinson has joined Rising Star Games to take charge of its US arm. He takes on the role of vice president at the newly-formed Rising Star Games Inc, leaving his most recent position as head of comms at Tradewest Games. MCV revealed that the UK publisher was opening a …
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