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  • Blog Post: The Last Story Is XSEED's Most Successful Title

    Publisher XSEED announced The Last Story for the Nintendo Wii is the company's most successful title to date. A new standalone version of the game is shipping to retailers today for $29.99. Additionally, any remaining copies of the premium launch units at retailers are now available for $39.99. The... More
  • Blog Post: This Week In Mobile 7/26/12

    This week, The Walking Dead, a surfing game by the original creator of Final Fantasy, and games about various big things hit mobile devices. Party Wave Mistwalker iOS $0.99 Hironobu Sakaguchi, original creator of the Final Fantasy series and surfing fan, served as the director of this game. Players line... More
  • Blog Post: Mistwalker's 'Party Wave' Arrives Next Month

    The iOS game Party Wave from Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi is releasing mid July, developer Mistwalker confirmed. "Surfing is one of my hobbies and I’m pleased to make it an iOS game," "Sakaguchi said. When surf is small and many are surfing, surfers sometime catch the... More
  • Blog Post: Sakaguchi Complains About Final Fantasy

    Hironobu Sakaguchi may have stepped away from the Final Fantasy franchise to start up his own Mistwalker studio, but that doesn't mean he still doesn't have some thoughts about the franchise he created. In an interview with CVG , Sakaguchi said that when the alcohol is flowing, his tongue is... More
  • Blog Post: Nintendo Files U.S. Trademark For Mistwalker's The Last Story

    Is the Japanese Wii-exclusive RPG coming to America? Based on this recently trademark filing , it appears so. Fans of Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi's Mistwalker studio (which made Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey) have been hoping that The Last Story would make it to the west, but it had not... More
  • Blog Post: The Last Story Domain Registered By Nintendo Of America

    Mistwalker's previous projects, Lost Odyssey and Blue Dragon, both got U.S. releases so imagine our dismay when Nintendo said the company has no plans on bringing over The Last Story. However, recent reports show that Nintendo of America registered a domain for the Wii RPG early last year. What does... More
  • Blog Post: Flashy Swordplay In Latest Commercial For The Last Story

    The Last Story is a Wii RPG developed by Mistwalker, the studio led by Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi. Over the past year we've gotten snippets of information on the Japan-only title (still no word on a North American release) so here's one more bit of media that has me crossing my... More
  • Blog Post: Sakaguchi’s Career Tied To Last Story’s Reception

    Final Fantasy luminary Hironobu Sakaguchi has previously stated that The Last Story may indeed be his last gaming endeavor, and the thought is apparently still weighing on his mind. At an event in Japan this week Sakaguchi mused that poor reception for The Last Story may mark a disconnect with the audience... More
  • Blog Post: Microsoft’s Greenberg On Gold, Kinect, Xbox In Japan, And First-Party Publishing

    We talk to Microsoft Xbox product director Aaron Greenberg about the future of Xbox Live (and the recent Gold subscription increase), how quality control will help avoid shovelware on Kinect, the growing presence of Xbox 360 in Japan, and Microsoft’s first-party publishing policy. Game Informer... More
  • Blog Post: Sakaguchi Says The Last Story Is About Gameplay

    In a recent episode of Iwata Asks (a show where the Nintendo CEO chats with developers), Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi explained how the Wii-exclusive The Last Story only marks the third time in his development career where gameplay is more important than story. Sakaguchi claims that the last... More
  • Blog Post: Sakaguchi’s Retirement Rumors Premature?

    Last week, there was talk that Hironobu Sakaguchi's upcoming Wii game The Last Story might be his last game, too. This week, an official English translation of that original Japanese blog entry casts more light on his thinking. The Final Fantasy creator says that, "Emotionally it feels like... More
  • Blog Post: Is This Sakaguchi's Last Story?

    The Final Fantasy creator says in his blog that he has the "strong" feeling that The Last Story – Mistwalker's game for the Wii – might be the end for him. The developer is currently working on the Nintendo-published RPG, although the game doesn't have a U.S. release date... More
  • Blog Post: First Peek At Mistwalker's The Last Story

    Even though Wii owners missed out on the latest entry in the Final Fantasy series, they will still get their RPG fix with The Last Story, which is under the direction of Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi and Mistwalker studio. We don't really know much else about the game at this time, however... More
  • Blog Post: Nintendo Publishing Mistwalker's The Last Story

    Hironobu Sakaguchi is the creator of the Final Fantasy series, which will be seeing its 13th installment in March on PS3 and Xbox 360. While Wii owners may not be getting Square Enix's big RPG, they will see a suspisciously similarly named series, The Last Story, from Sakaguchi's Mistwalker studio... More
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