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A Final Fantasy VII remake isn’t Square Enix’s number one priority at the moment. Tetsuya Nomura, speaking with Famitsu this week, noted that he’s aware of fan interest in a possible makeover. Currently though, Nomura is occupied with making new games. He hopes the quality of these new titles match – or surpass – Final Fantasy VII.

Nomura mentioned one additional Final Fantasy-related tidbit with Famitsu. He feels Yoshinori Kitase is the true successor to the series. Kitase has been involved with the Final Fantasy IP for over two decades, working on nearly every mainline entry since Final Fantasy V.

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Saints Row developer Volition is officially working on new hardware. Studio Audio Director Ariel Gross listed “mysterious next generation of consoles” at platforms he’s involved with on his LinkedIn profile. It additionally states that three unannounced games are in the works, though it’s unknown if all three will be for new systems.

There is a decent shot of at least one of these games arriving on Wii U. Parent company THQ pledged support for the console early on with core games such as Darksiders II and Metro: Last Light. Maybe it’ll bring Saints Row 4 to the Wii U which also appears to be in development for current-gen systems.

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THQ shared a couple of tidbits about next-generation consoles during its Q4 2012 earnings conference call today. During the discussion, president and CEO Brian Farrell said that the company will bring games to new systems at or near launch. Additionally, the company believes it has “several franchises that we can continue to build from the current to the next-generation.”

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Konami is ditching a live E3 2012 press conference for a second straight year. The company has instead opted to prepare a recorded pre-E3 show, as was the case in 2011.

A countdown is running on a newly opened site here. It seems it’ll expire around May 31 or June 1, which is a few days before the start of E3 2012. The expo officially begins on June 5.

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A rating for Mini Ninjas: Hiro’s Adventure has popped up on Australia’s classification board. Hitman developer and maker of the original Mini Ninjas IO Interactive is listed as the “author”, meaning the studio is creating the title. Square Enix will be publishing.

This is the second time we’re hearing about Mini Ninjas: Hiro’s Adventure. A trademark and domain name were discovered in March.

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Ubisoft has offered a tease for next-generation consoles. In the company’s latest financial report, chief executive officer Yves Guillemot stated these new systems will be more connected and will boost the market.

Guillemot said:

“From a longer-term perspective, Ubisoft is positioning itself to capitalize on: the forthcoming arrival of the next generation of consoles which will be increasingly connected and will strongly boost the market thanks to a new qualitative leap and the integration of social games benefits and the item based model, the ongoing strong growth in the Free-to-Play market for PCs, smartphones and tablets.”

Ubisoft is already readying a great amount of support for one next-generation console, Nintendo’s Wii U. Several titles are planned for the system’s launch.

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Capcom won’t have any Nintendo games on display at E3 2012 next month. That’s according to a company representative.

As far as we know, Capcom has absolutely nothing in the works for North American 3DS owners. Monster Hunter Tri G still hasn’t been announced for the continent, but fans were hoping for a confirmation within the next few weeks. And although Capcom is creating Monster Hunter 4 and Professor Layton vs. Ace Attorney for the 3DS, it’s unknown if either title will leave Japan.

We also don’t know what Capcom has in store for Wii U, if anything. Perhaps the company is just playing coy to make some splashes at E3 (or maybe I’m just delusional, which is probably the case).

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Square Enix held a financial results briefing in Japan earlier today. There are a couple of noteworthy slides worth sharing.

First, here’s the company shipment targets for the current fiscal year:

Next, Square Enix provided a release schedule for its upcoming games lineup:

You can find more sales talk here, here.

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Last week it was believed that Atari would be shutting down Eden Games. The move would help the company recoup from a drop in revenue this past fiscal year.

But as it turns out, Atari has now officially said that it won’t be closing Eden Games, the studio behind Test Driver Unlimited in a few other titles.

Atari said in a statement:

“Our earnings statement contained a report about the divestment of Eden Studios. We want to make it clear that the studio has not closed and that we will continue to support the console and PC games of Eden Studios, notably Test Drive Unlimited 2, while this process is underway.

“The divestment is in line with our previously stated strategy of exploiting our popular intellectual property library on mobile devices, where he have seen strong initial success, and via online games and licensing.”

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According to Famitsu, the next “Tales of” game from Namco Bandai is a “mothership” title. This means it’ll be a core entry rather than a spinoff or remake. There’s some speculation that it could be a sequel to Tales of Xillia.

If I had to guess, I’d say the new Tales title will arrive on the PlayStation 3. Maybe a Wii U version will be possible as well?

In any case, Namco Bandai will unveil the new game on June 2 at the Tales of Festival.

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