The Rune Factory series is back after eight years, with Rune Factory 5, out now on Nintendo Switch in Japan, and the game still mixes Action RPG with farming, crafting, monster raising, and dating sim elements including a marriage system – but is there same-gender marriage in the game? Mass Effect’s Choice System is Painfully
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The Rune Factory series is back after eight years, with Rune Factory 5, out now on Nintendo Switch in Japan, and the game still mixes Action RPG with farming, crafting, monster raising, and dating sim elements including a marriage system – but is there same gender marriage in the game? Mass Effect’s Choice System is
Marvelous announced that one of its development studios, 1st Studio, is currently recruiting a wide range of developers, in order to strengthen its planning and development of next gen games, most notably on PS5 and Xbox series X. 1st Studio handled many games at Marvelous, such as Daemon x Machina, the Fate/Extella series, and the
Marvelous says Rune Factory 5 is still coming in 2020 in Japan on Switch, surprisingly. Marvelous, like many other Japanese game companies, published a new financial report a few days ago. Now, my paycheck isn’t big enough to give you a full summary of the report with the actual numbers, but as you can guess
At PC Gaming Show 2020, Marvelous and XSeed announced Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town for Steam. The game is already planned on Nintendo Switch. It’ll launch on both platforms in the country of democracy and freedom, America, on July 14, 2020. The game launches on Switch in Europe on July 10. The Steam
Marvelous announced on May 25 that Tencent will buy 20% stake in the Japanese studio, thus owning 20% of the studio. Tencent, which is China’s biggest gaming company, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Image Frame Investment, will spend around 7 billion Yen ($65 million) on Marvelous. This will allow Marvelous to expand its existing IPs and
In this week’s Famitsu magazine, Marvelous announced they’re currently on the groundwork for a new Story of Seasons game. As a refresher, the latest game released in the series is Story of Seasons Friends of Mineral Town on Switch, a remake of Harvest Moon Friends of Mineral Town on Gameboy Advance. We learned that via an interview
XSEED Games announced that Rune Factory 4 Special will be coming to the US on February 25, exclusively to Switch. Europe and Australia will get the game a few days later on February 28. A new trailer was released to coincide with the announcement. The official XSEED site contains the E3 trailer in addition to
Marvelous held the second Runfachannel stream today, revealing more about Rune Factory 4 Special. The stream had the same people as the previous stream along with Ayana Taketatsu, who voices Dolce. Multiple gameplay sequences for Rune Factory 4 Special were shown on stream: (32:32) Gameplay from some of the Newlywed Stories mode: Clorica, Arthur, Dolce, and
Marvelous announced a slightly more precise release estimate for Rune Factory 5 on Switch. According to Wall Street Journal’s Takashi Mochizuki, the company announced in a statement it “definitely won’t be releasing Rune Factory 5 before the end of March 2020″. Marvelous further stated they “just started Rune Factory 5‘s development” and would rather “take
Last month Nintendo Dream published an interview with Rune Factory 4 Special developers — Yoshifumi Hashimoto, president and representative director of studio Hakama and Marvelous game planner Shirou Maekawa — in which they delve into the reasons for bringing Rune Factory 4 to the Nintendo Switch, as well as a few new features for the remastered version.
My Time at Portia developers Pathea Games revealed on the game’s Facebook page that they will be releasing an update to improve load times on Nintendo Switch. The update will be available “as close to (console) launch day as possible”. My Time at Portia is an open-world farm RPG in the vein of Rune Factory
Marvelous revealed new information on Rune Factory 5 today on the Rune FaChannel stream. The stream featured multiple Japanese streamers and Marvelous producer Maikawa. Let’s get this out of the way first: The new information concerning Rune Factory 5 is how players will have “something extremely nice” happening in Rune Factory 5 by linking their save
Marvelous announced through the Rune Factory official Twitter that a live stream for the Rune Factory series, titled “Rune FaChannel”. It’ll air on April 4 at 20:00 JST. You’ll be able to watch it on YouTube, Periscope, and Niconico. The stream will include live gameplay of Rune Factory 4 Special on Switch, and new information
When Rune Factory 4 Special and Rune Factory 5 were announced on Switch by Marvelous and Nintendo on the latest Nintendo Direct, many people around the world were ecstatic, myself included. All of us had lost hope that a new Rune Factory would ever be released, and for good reason. Why do we love the series
Surprising everyone, Xseed Games and Marvelous announced on today’s Nintendo Direct Rune Factory 4 Special, a remaster of Rune Factory 4 on Nintendo Switch. Not stopping with this and decided on triggering hysteria among the series’ fans, Rune Factory 5 was announced as well. The game is currently in development, with no release date estimate. Meanwhile, Rune