The father of Harvest Moon has a new IP coming out.
If Natsume is known for anything, it has to be for their cartoonish farm/life simulator series Harvest Moon. Combining addictive game mechanics with a wholesome aesthetic styling was par for the course for series creator Yasuhiro Wada and it looks like he may be ready to strike that chord again with an E3 unveiling of Codename: Project Happiness.
The Harvest Moon creator forms Toybox Inc.
Yasuhiro Wada announced that he and another former Marvelous employee, Tomio Kanazawa, have created Toybox Inc., a new company consisting of only these two men.
Side B of our 3 sided launch extravaganza includes talk of level 100 carrots, MMO failures and bitching about 3D, micro transactions and everything in between
In the second part of our PixlTalk 2.0 launch series, Nate hosts with Matt R, Stanton and Jason H sitting in for a talk concerning modern gaming.
Rune Factory: Tides of Destiny To Launch on Nintendo Wii and PlayStation®3
Burlingame, CA.--, May 17, 2011 - Natsume Inc., a worldwide developer and publisher of family-oriented video games, announced today that Rune Factory: Tides of Destiny sets sail later this year on both the PlayStation®3 and Nintendo Wii. Rune Factory: Tides of Destiny is the first game in the Rune Factory series to come to the PlayStation®3.
You can now ride a cow in Harvest Moon.
Ever since I first played Harvest Moon: Animal Parade at E3 this past June, I've been dying to get my hands on it again. The game takes the premise of the previous Harvest Moon games, but expands on the features and graphics to make this game not only worthwhile, but better.