Marvelous Entertainment had a plan to take over the world. They already developed and distributed games in Japan, but they had moved into North America recently and even co-founded Rising Star Games in Europe. They were ready to dominate this globe with games the likes of Harvest Moon and No More Heroes. However, their not so evil plan seems to have gone awry.
The company has announced that they will be switching to a licensing model from her on out in the West. They’ve sold their 50 percent stake in Rising Star Games and will now be licensing their games out to Western publishers like Ubisoft, who is bringing us No More Heroes: Desperate Struggle next week (glee!).The cause of this, Marvelous says, is a drop in the market and lower than expected sales of their games.
While this probably won’t affect any of us all that much, it is now up in the air who will be bringing No More Heroes HD to Western shores, if anyone at all. Keep your fingers crossed that Ubisoft wants more No More Heroes action next week.
Marvelous Switches To Licensing Model, Sells Stake In Rising Star Games [Siliconera]
