Rising Star and Hudson Soft to Collaborate on New Gaming Titles

Rising Star Games and Hudson Soft announced a co-publishing agreement today, which will initially cover seven titles across Sony PSP, Nintendo DS and Wii formats for release between September 2007 and March 2008. For UK publisher Rising Star Games this is a good financial move as it will further establish the company as a major player in the European market as well as publishing the company’s first Nintendo Wii title in early 2008.

“This is a significant partnership for Rising Star Games and a further endorsement that the values and business plan of the company are spot on; we are delighted,” commented Mr Martin Defries, Managing Director & C.O.O. Rising Star Games. “The line up from Hudson is fantastic and we are honoured to be part of the reintroduction of Hudson to Europe along with the games it brings.”

“We are very happy to have the opportunity to work with Rising Star Games,” commented Mrs. Hiromi Tomisawa, Head of Europe Business, Global Business Division, Hudson Soft Co. Ltd. “They are an experienced hand at managing the very best in Japanese games for release in Europe and have a dynamism that matches our goal to return the Hudson brand to Europe once again. We have an exciting multiformat line up of titles and look forward to this partnership building.”

Rising Star Games has published such gems as Valhalla Knights, Innocent Life – A Futuristic Harvest Moon, Swords of Destiny, Bomberman Land Touch and Harvest Moon DS.

Hudson Soft should be familiar to gamers because of the Bomberman games, but they also developed Fuzion Frenzy 2, Alien Crush and Bloody Roar 4.