Rising Star Games is a video game publisher formed in 2004 as a joint business venture between Scandinavian distributor Bergsala and Japanese video game publisher and content developer Intergrow. The company is based in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England while in North America is based on California, USA.
Its focus is to publish titles from Japanese companies for release in European, Australian and North American Markerts markets. So far, the company has published over 90 titles for Wii, Nintendo DS, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
In late 2007, the company was surrounded with controversy over what appeared to be its decision to censor the European version of No More Heroes, though it was later revealed that the decision was made by its parent company and the developer Grasshopper Manufacture to release the censored version in Europe unlike what was released in North America and Japan.
In 2012, it was announced that they will open the Rising Star Games USA, where they will publish the North American releases.
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