Last week we sat down with the Final Fantasy XI development team on the eve of the latest patch release to their current expansion, Wings of the Goddess, and talked with Koichi Ogawa (FFXI planner), Mitsutoshi Gondai (FFXI job planner), Mizuki Ito (FFXI battle planner), and Hiromichi Tanaka (FFXI producer) about the state of the [...]

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The upcoming Toy Story 3 notwithstanding, Walt Disney Pictures has made a habit of outsourcing its Pixar subsidiary’s film-to-game tie-ins to THQ. However, since Disney began creating CGI films without the aid of Pixar beginning with Chicken Little in 2005, the publisher has tapped its own internal Disney Interactive Studios label for game adaptations.
That trend [...]

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We’ve recently found out that Halo Wars, the real-time strategy from MS and Ensemble Studios, has been stamped with the much hated “when it’s done” label, as confirmed by Graham Somers, Ensemble’s community manager. Well, the important thing is the game’s still on its way.

Anyhow, the three fresh in-game screens from Halo Wars finally give [...]

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