No More Heroes
Suda 51's Wii action game earns a cabinet-full of awards.
The top UK awards are as follows:
Best Game Character (Travis Touchdown) - NGamer Golden Mario Awards
Best Action Game (Wii) - IGN
Best Story (Wii) - IGN
Winner ‘When We Were You’ Award (Travis Touchdown) - MTV Games Awards
Winner ‘You Got the Style’ Award - MTV Games Awards
#2 Best Wii Game - GamesMaster
#8 in Top 50 Games of 2008 - The Daily Telegraph
#10 in Top 25 Games of the Year - Official Nintendo Magazine
Top 10 finalist for Game of the Year - GameSpot
Highly Recommended shortlist for Ultimate Wii Game of the Year - NGamer Golden Mario Awards
Nominations:
Wii Game of the Year - NGamer
Best Soundtrack - Official Nintendo Magazine
Best Wii Visuals - Official Nintendo Magazine
Best Artistic Design - IGN
Best Voice Acting - IGN
Best New IP - IGN
Nintendo Game of the Year - Golden Joysticks 2008
“This has been a standout year for No More Heroes and Rising Star Games,” said Martin Defries, Rising Star Games managing director. “We’ve had fantastic critical reception for NMH from the start; to be nominated in so many categories and place in the top ten in many polls proves how well a third party title can do on the Wii if you get it right. We’re all really excited to see the next step up in NMH2!”
Tempering this good news slightly, Mr. Defries goes on to address an outstanding issue for another Rising Star Games release:
"Unfortunately Rising Star Games has had to temporarily remove 'Harvest Fishing' DS from our new title release schedule. The Japanese development studio has struggled to fix the required Nintendo Wi-Fi features with the latest code submission and needs further time to resolve these issues. We are optimistic that the next submission of the game will be successful and that the game will be released in the next few months. However, to avoid further disappointment it is best not to announce, yet another, suggested release date; instead we will wait for successful approval of game code and then fix a secure release date.
“We appreciate your patience with the extraordinary delays to this title."
For further information, please contact:
Yen Hau or Tyrone Walcott (Rising Star Games)
yen.hau@risingstargames.com
tyrone.walcott@risingstargames.com
France - Atari France
Julie Carneiro
Julie.carneiro@atari.com
Germany - Eidos Germany GmbH
Sven Liebold
Sven.liebold@eidos.de
Italy - Atari Italy
Paola Menzhagi
Paola.menzhagi@atari.com
Sweden & Denmark - Bergsala
Patrik Johansson
Patrik.johansson@bergsala.se
Norway - Bergsala
Kirsti Danielsen
Kirsti.danielsen@bergsala.no
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About Rising Star Games
Rising Star Games Limited is a video games publisher for Sony PSP™, Nintendo DS™ and Wii™ plus PlayStation®2 in the PAL territory. A joint venture between Japanese publisher/developer Marvelous Interactive and long standing Nintendo Nordic distributor Bergsala AB, Rising Star Games’ publishing ethos is that it’s a Japanese games publisher with a European heart. The company has published enhanced and updated versions of some of interactive entertainment’s most successful franchises. www.risingstargames.com