We’re on trademark watch this weekend and Sony Computer Entertainment, Namco Bandai and Square Enix have filed a few interesting titles in their home country.
Yuji Naka was fined $1.2 million and given a suspended jail sentence for the crime.
I find his comments around how Balan turned out to be very insightful as to why the game is trash. He basically apologises for its existence
can you please give some of us who don't know anything about this, a summary of what happened?
Balan was knowingly rushed out by S-E, it had an extremely short dev cycle and was fairly low budget.
Naka was the game's director until near the end when he was fired or perhaps he quit, I forgot.
@Chocoburger Yeah they did fire and replace him which caused him to unload a bunch of rants about the company. The project only existed because of Naka in the first place, he convinced Square to give him one shot at making a platformer. They gave him an opportunity but pulled the rug out before he was done for reasons not explained.
The top producer of Square Enix flagship Dragon Quest franchise is stepping down from the role, following delays in developing the next installment of the popular series.
Please o please don't turn dragon quest into final fantasy square enix we dont wont that. Dragon quest works well just as it I. Plus you'll piss off Japanese fans to.
Hopefully they don’t. From this it doesn’t sound like that is the case and development is just taking too long.
Square Enix will be releasing three new manga titles later this year, all of which are available for pre-order now.
More new IPs for Sony I guess, this is great news, all console manufacturers should be striving to bring us a good mix of both new games and pre/sequels.
just only last month, sony trademarked destiny of spirits,
and this month in the same week we receive news that sony trademarked
the order:1866 and this freedom wars and YU-NAMA
wow, when it comes to pushing new ips, sony is the one ^_^
DR.F is DR.FOO doctor who's Japanese half brother.
Square Enix:please be exited for E3.
Seems like Allan Becker the new studio boss at SCEJ(former product director at Santa Monica studio's) is turning things around they have been firing at all cylinders for the last 2 years or so before that it looked pretty bad since the start of this gen. Now just give me Patapon 4 in the same style as 2 and Gravity rush 2 and i will be FEVER!
If only it was Mr. F......Arrested Development anyone?
Dr. F sounds like he'll be dropping some F bombs.
Seriously though, new IPs are always welcome.