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E308: DS Fanboy invites Princess Debut to the ball
Filed under: Features I don't have to tell you just how odd Princess Debut is. For one, it's not the sort of title one usually associates with Natsume. Second, it's developed by Cave, who are usually...
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E308: DS Fanboy explores the lands of Rune Factory 2
Filed under: Features When hitting up Natsume's meeting room at E3, I kept catching myself wishing I wasn't alone. In fact, I wished that one specific person was with me, because all of these games...
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E308: DS Fanboy raises its spirits with Harvest Moon: Island of Happiness
Filed under: Features To be honest, the last time I played a Harvest Moon game, it was on the GameCube. We're talking years ago, folks. But, like riding a bike, Harvest Moon is an experience that...
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E308: Wii Fanboy tends farm in Harvest Moon: Tree of Tranquility
Filed under: Features Harvest Moon: Tree of Tranquility is a big game. The first thing that I noticed was just how large the game world is. You aren't restricted to just one farm, instead able to...
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Harvest Moon: Magical Melody port may take root in US soil
Filed under: NewsHarvest Moon: Magical Melody was released on the GameCube in 2006 in the US. Rising Star Games, Marvelous's European branch, then ported it to the Wii with new motion controls,...
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Harvest Moon: Waku Waku Animal March uses WiiConnect24
Filed under: News, Imports The official website for Bokujou Monogatari: Waku Waku Animal March has updated with new screens and art of all the super-adorable animals that will be featured -- the ones...
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Draw Harvest Moon art to win a bumper crop from Natsume
Filed under: NewsDo you like drawing Harvest Moon cows over, and over, and over again? We're not going to go investigating (for the same reason we try not to investigate any fanart on the intertron),...
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Harvest Moon: Waku Waku Animal Puppets
Filed under: Virtual Console, Imports Our Japanese is not quite good enough to ascertain the nuances of this dramatic scene, but what we could understand was self-evident anyway. In this ad for Harvest...
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Rune Factory 2 preorder bonus is nuts
Filed under: News, Fan stuffWell, nut. Acorn, really. Plush acorn ... in the grip of a plush squirrel. Never mind. Chances are, if you're a fan of, uh, fantasy-themed farming simulations, you've...
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TGS08: Rising Star reveals four for Europe
Filed under: News, Screens Rising Star Games just unfurled an official list of Marvelous games that it plans to localize for Europe, including Luminous Arc 2, Avalon Code, Rune Factory 2, and a fourth...
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Rune Factory 2 manufactures U.S. release date
Filed under: News Marvelous has confirmed it will release Rune Factory 2 into the crowded, choppy waters of the Christmas games market, announcing a November 18th release date for the fantasy-themed...
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New Harvest Moon title coming March 2009 in Japan
Filed under: News According to Weekly Famitsu, a brand new Harvest Moon title will be making its way onto on the PSP this upcoming March in Japan. In Harvest Moon: Sugar Village, the third PSP title of...
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Natsume has (Fish) Eyes for the Wii
Filed under: News, Imports Remember Fish Eyes? If not, you may be more familiar with its western name, Reel Fishing. The series has been staying very still and quiet in a tiny boat since 1996, popping...
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Natsume grows another Harvest Moon puzzle game
Natsume has announced another Harvest Moon game, which, in itself, isn't much of a surprise. But Harvest Moon: Frantic Farming is not the same Harvest Moon that we see two or three times a year,...
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Animal Kingdom: Wildlife Expedition spotted in its natural habitat
Last year, we idly mused that Success Corp.'s Amazing Animals, a Wii safari game, looked kind of neat. Now, Natsume will give us a chance to experience the kind-of-neatness for ourselves! The company...
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Adventures to Go brings ... adventures to go on PSP
We love straightforward titles. That's why we approve of Natsume's newly announced Adventures to Go for PSP. It's yet another addition to PSP's expansive SRPG library, but Natsume plans on taking a...
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Natsume pulls a Pangea, bringing Afrika to North America
For a game that we didn't really care all that much about in the first place, Afrika sure has had a circuitous route in getting to us. After seeing the game at a Sony press briefing 137 years ago, we...
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Natsume announces new cheery, squishy games
Natsume's E3 lineup features mostly what you would expect from Natsume (Harvest Moon and lots of it, plus the previously announced Afrika on PS3), but the company revealed a few unannounced games, some...
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Impressions: Afrika
Pokémon Snap fans, beware! Afrika is the Pokémon game you know and love, just all grown up ... and, ya know, without all those Pocket Monsters. Instead, you're chasing around lions and tigers and, erm,...
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How Natsume picked up Afrika (bonus: trophies confirmed!)
When Sony first revealed Afrika, it was a marquee first-party PS3 title used to show off the power of the system. Three years later, it's finally being released in North America, by tiny third-party...
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