Marvelous merges with Last Story dev

By Tom Phillips Published 10 May, 2011

AQ Interactive joins Harvest Moon studio.

Harvest Moon creator Marvelous Entertainment will merge with AQ Interactive, co-developers of Wii role-player The Last Story.

The studios will tie the knot, Kotaku understands, after several overlapping projects.

Marvelous recently tasked AQ with tweaking Suda51's beam-sword waving Wii title No More Heroes. It's already been re-released once in Japan as No More Heroes: Heroes' Paradise.

AQ's PlayStation 3 update, No More Heroes: Red Zone, adds further content and Move controls.

AQ also owns localisation company Xseed, who shared publishing duties with Marvelous on excellent Wii strategy Little King's Story and role-playing Harvest Moon spin-off Rune Factory: Fronteir. Now they're all one happy family.

Marvelous and AQ are currently working together on 3DS title Animal Resort. It's a bit like Harvest Moon, but set in a zoo.

Players must restore the run-down facility after inheriting it from a long-lost Grandfather. Taking care of your animals allows you more to adopt, crowds to please and, of course, some cold hard cash.

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Comments (3) Latest comment 1 year ago

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  • Abscido #1 1 year ago

    Been playing Deadly Premonition recently and it's one of the most memorable games I've ever played. Brilliant stuff. Here's hoping Marvelous somehow manage a sequel.

  • Piccadillio #2 1 year ago

    Two great Japanese developers merge and work on a game called... Animal Resort? Brilliant. This is what the Wii has done to the industry! Little King's Story gets released on Wii and dies, and the result is that the developers and publishers go for the casual market. It's a damn shame.

  • ukuleleimport #3 1 year ago

    Little King's Story, oh how I love thee.
    Edited by ukuleleimport at 10/05/11 @ 19:32