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The Last Guardian is both the game everyone’s been waiting for and the game no one ever expected to arrive – much like Half Life 3. The title began its development journey in 2007 and was announced by Sony at E3 2009 as the game which would demonstrate everything the …
Read More »Pre-order for The Last Guardian exceed Sony’s expectations
PS4 exclusive The Last Guardian will be hitting shelves next week and, despite being in development for nearly ten years, there’s still a sizeable fan base eagerly waiting for its launch, Sony’s product manager Joe Palmer told MCV. I can’t comment with specific details, but I can say that pre-orders …
Read More »The Last Guardian suffers fresh delay
The perpetually upcoming The Last Guardian will remain upcoming for a little while longer. The game had, at long last, been due out on October 28th. It has now been pushed back to December 9th in the UK and December 7th in Europe. Fumito Ueda, Gen Design and Japan Studio …
Read More »The Last Guardian dev Fumito Ueda on maintaining a consistent vision for a decade
'I always take a point of reminding myself periodically: ‘What was the game I wanted to play?'' says creator of Ico and Shadow of the Colossus
Read More »Video: The Last Guardian is coming out this October
It was thought by many that Sony’s The Last Guardian would never see the light of the day. But the game from the Ico and Shadow of the Colossus developer finally has a release date. It was revealed during last night’s PlayStation press conference that the game would be launching …
Read More »Sony ‘probably’ would have cancelled Last Guardian were it not for the fans
It’s back. It’s heading to PS4. And it could arrive this year. But the cancellation of The Last Guardian was most certainly a possibility. That’s according to Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida who has told the latest issue of Edge, as reported by Videogamer, that it was the vocal …
Read More »Yoshida: PS3 asked too many compromises of The Last Guardian
The arrival of PS4 is one of the main reasons why development of The Last Guardian has taken so long to develop. Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida told Kotaku that the team working on the game was struggling to realise its vision on PS3. In fact, he even admitted …
Read More »The Last Guardian director sets up new studio
Fumito Ueda founds GenDesign, staffed by Team Ico veterans
Read More »Last Guardian’s Ueda has set up a new studio
The director of the long-awaited The Last Guardian and PS2 classics Ico and Shadow of the Colossus Fumito Ueda has set up a new studio. As spotted by Kotaku, the new development firm is called GenDesign, and is allegedly made up of Ueda himself, as well as a number of …
Read More »SONY: The Last Guardian still alive, opens PlayStation’s conference
PlayStation opened its E3 media briefing with the news that The Last Guardian is indeed still in development, and is coming to PlayStation 4. Directed by Ico lead developer Fumito Ueda, the puzzle game is much the same as the last time we saw it – a little boy is …
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