Rising Star Games Archive

Cooking Mama’s Opening a Nintendo 3DS Sweet Shop this Spring

Posted on February 2, 2017 | No Comments
After a few years off since her last outing, the queen of culinary mini-games is heading back into the kitchen, this time specializing in confectionery treats. Publisher Rising Star Games has joined up with developer Office Create (aka Cooking Mama Limited) to bring Cooking Mama: […]
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Meet Brut@l’s ASCII-Kicking Mage and Amazon Classes

Posted on January 20, 2017 | No Comments
A pair of new trailers are out introducing the range attack specialist Amazon and Mage hero classes from procedurally generated roguelike ASCII dungeon crawler Brut@l. Stormcloud Games and Rising Star Games are preparing Brut@l for PC launch on February 9th. The game’s already out on […]
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Review: Conga Master

Posted on September 19, 2016 | No Comments
A variation on the Snake formula, Conga Master is a simple arcade party action game about club hopping, forming lengthy conga lines, being mean to pigs, and evading alien abduction. Yes, it really is as silly as it sounds. Your dance with extraterrestrials, cats, pigs, […]
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Enchanting Isometric Adventure Lumo Coming to PC and Consoles Next Year

Posted on September 18, 2015 | No Comments
Today’s press release from Rising Star Games is already proclaiming that its newly announced title Lumo will be the “first great game of 2016.” Sounds like a lot of hyperbole to me–not to mention a whole lot of hype and pressure to heap onto an […]
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Review: Lumini

Posted on September 4, 2015 | No Comments
In this understated indie surprise from Speelbaars and Rising Star Games, you control the eponymous lumini, an ancient race of creatures that are like, for lack of a better description, a crossbreed between fish and butterflies (or lightning bugs or really any type of flying […]
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Review: The Marvellous Miss Take

Posted on March 19, 2015 | No Comments
Proving that stealth games don’t just have to be about super spies, special ops agents, deadly ninjas, and cloaked assassins, The Marvellous Miss Take masters the art of video game sneaking and thievery with a lighthearted, non-violent approach that is as fun to play as […]
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Deadly Premonition Visual Companion Coming to iPad in Time for Halloween

Posted on August 15, 2013 | No Comments
Deadly Premonition: The Director’s Cut: The Official Visual Companion. Holy cow, that’s a long title! So, what is this visual companion, you ask? It’s an iPad app loaded with 352 touch-screen pages of artwork, storyboards, maps, character bios, a soundboard, and even the game’s soundtrack, […]
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Screenshot Saturday: Halo 4, New Super Mario Bros. 2, Crysis 3, Ni No Kuni & More!

Posted on April 21, 2012 | No Comments
One of the top stories of the week was Halo 4 getting its confirmed November 6 global launch date so it’s only fitting that Master Chief’s grand return to Xbox 360 glory headlines the latest edition of Screenshot Saturday. New Super Mario Bros. 2 and […]
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