European-based publisher Rising Star Games has announced that Aksys Games, a North American interactive entertainment software publisher, will exclusively distribute the company’s complete 2012 North American line-up.
The first game of the collaboration will be Akai Katana, a side-scrolling bullet hell adventure for the Xbox 360 that will be Rising Star Games’ first US title. Akai Katana will be releasing later this spring, and places players in a parallel world resembling Japan’s Taisho period. Utilizing the power behind the world’s Blood Swords for leverage, schmup (shoot ’em up) fans will fight alongside their rebel warrior kin as they seek to regain peace and order by taking on a fierce empire of tyranny.
