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SE在E3之前将召开《最终幻想》主题记者会

　 在所有参展的第三方游戏厂商中，SE肯定会是焦点，因为他们在2013年2月份的PS4发布会上就透露了要在E3公布一款《最终幻想》系列正统作品，而在E3之前他们就准备要行动了。

      日前SE确定将在美国时间2013年6月11日上午9点到10点召开只对媒体开放的“《最终幻想》的未来”E3前记者采访会，届时SE的高级副总裁桥本真司会到场解答记者们的问题，而这个时间之后短短几个小时，E3便会正式开幕。

　  有关会以的细节目前还没有透露，但是玩家们期待的PS4平台是《最终幻想》系列正统续作也可能会在记者会上透露。而肯定有不少记者会问到有关《最终幻想V13》的问题，期待着桥本如何回答。

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Eidos终身总裁认为任天堂应在全平台开发新作

　　任天堂是三大主机制造商之一，同时也是一家非常强力的第一方游戏开发商，为自己创造的主机带来了许多经典的游戏。不过有些人似乎对这种做法不太满意，现在就有业界人士表示，任天堂应该在全平台上开发新作。

　　日前Eidos的终身总裁Ian Livingstone在布里斯托尔游戏中心表示，任天堂应该让他们的游戏出现在每个平台：“否则就会有整整一代年轻人错过他们的游戏。”他还认为这样做能够加强任天堂游戏的影响力，而且这种做法应该优先于他们自己的硬件平台。

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Square Enix公开E3展出流程多款大作悉数登场

　　继Square Enix公司透露了E3的出展游戏阵容后，现在官方又公开了他们的日程安排。短短的3天里，他们为我们带来了相当丰富的展示内容，下面就为大家介绍一下。

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SE确认《杀出重围3导演剪辑版》将登陆多平台

　　《杀出重围3：导演剪辑版》是一款预计于2013年内推出的WiiU新作，不过实际上这并非一款独占游戏。日前在E3 2013展会期间，官方确认本作将会登陆PS3、XBOX 360、PC和Mac平台，而游戏预计于今年晚些时候发售。

　　《杀出重围3：导演剪辑版》在保留原作要素的基础上，改进了BOSS战和视觉效果，让游戏变得更有趣。

　　而Eidos蒙特利尔工作室的总经理Stéphane D'Astous表示：“在导演剪辑版公布后，我们收到了来自业界中的各种热烈反应，他们都要求我们也在其他平台推出这款游戏。”他则表示他们很高兴能够回应这种要求。

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IO Interactive 工作室裁员近半 新项目正在开发

　　Hitman 系列的开发商IO Interactive在去年完成了Hitman Absolution的开发工作，而近日有消息传出该工作室已经开始裁掉近50%的员工，在一轮裁员之后，该工作室也在一份声明中正式公布了此事。

　　说到发展，IO Interactive的发言人证实，该公司已经取消了多个项目，目前正在集中精力利用目前的与资产开发一款《终极刺客》系列新作。“我们IO Interactive目前正在迎来重大改变，为此我们需要面对极富变化及挑战的市场。”

　　“工作室的原生产总监Hannes Seifert已经为该工作室工作了3年，他将接管IO Interactive工作室负责人的位置。目前工作室的重点是放到Hitman的未来，他们正在制作一款新的3A级的Hitman。”

　　“但是我们已经采取了困难的决定，那就是取消其他工作室的项目并减少目前工作室的劳动力。这将影响IO Interactive近一半的员工，我们会为此做出调整来名对如今市场的挑战。”

　　“对于那些受到影响的员工，我对他们辛苦的工作及对工作室做出的贡献表示感谢。而我们正在尝试为这些员工安排全新的工作岗位，我们还会提供其他公司的职介机会，我衷心祝愿他们在未来的职业生涯中一切顺利。”

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SE解释FF15以及《王国之心3》无WiiU版原因

　　Square Enix在此前已经结束的E3 2013大展中正式公开了《王国之心3》以及《最终幻想15》(即原《最终幻想13V》)这两款游戏，并确认它们将会登陆PS4和XBOX ONE。不过这两款游戏均不会登陆任天堂的新机WiiU，日前官方也已经解释了其原因。

　　根据开发小组的说法，由于他们是以DirectX 11为基础打造这两款游戏，而WiiU则无法兼容DirectX 11，所以虽然PS4和XBOX ONE之间的移植很容易，但他们很难将其移植到WiiU平台。

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《圣剑传说》系列复活？SE注册同名新作商标

　　近日，在日本的商标局公开网站上，出现了SE注册的新作商标《圣剑传说》。该系列自1991年以《最终幻想》外传的形式登陆GB以来，通过其独特的游戏模式发展成为一个独立系列，先后在SFC、PS、GBA、NDS和PS2推出过作品。而从新作商标注册来看，SE或许会在一段时间之后公布《圣剑传说》系列新作的消息。

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Next-gen Tomb Raider sequel in development
《古墓丽影》次世代新已在开发中

　　Square Enix北美和欧洲区的总裁Phil Rogers近日在网上公布些消息其中就有古墓丽影新作的消息。

　　Phil Rogers说到之前曾经有传闻说SE要放弃家用机放弃开发大作现在澄清这些都是不可能的。很确切的告诉大家，我们不会放弃3A级主机大作和PC游戏，这些是我们的核心。我们将以努力开发游戏，不间断的发布游戏向大家证明这一点。Square Enix正在制作一系列次世代项目，其中包括在E3公布的《最终幻想15》和《国王之心2》，《神偷4》也将在2014年与玩家见面。除此之外，我还要高兴的向大家宣布，《古墓丽影》首部次世代续作《古墓丽影10》也已在开发中，并且进行的相当不错。《古墓丽影10》将继续由Crystal Dynamics工作室开发制作。



A note from Phil Rogers, CEO

Hello.

By way of introduction, my name is Phil Rogers and I’m the CEO for Square Enix in the Americas and Europe looking after our studio and publishing businesses. I think it’s clear to everyone that the games industry is rapidly changing – there are now more and more ways to play (and pay for) games. Through these and other advancements, gaming is taking a greater part of people’s time, fitting within a broad entertainment landscape which is offering greater choice, freedom and expression. As this industry evolves and changes, we have to change too.

There’s been speculation and commentary made this year about Square Enix’s strategy in the Americas and Europe, and I know we’ve not outwardly commented or addressed this, so some folk may be confused about what we’re actually doing – therefore I want to try and explain directly to you here on our Square Enix blog.

First and foremost, we are a games company and today we devote most of our time and effort into developing new and rich gameplay experiences, worlds and characters. At the same time new business models have risen up, which we periodically will try to explore. I know this can be frustrating for some long-time fans of our games, particularly if it seems that we’re heading in unfamiliar directions without much in the way of explanation. Explaining our approach to these opportunities is something we’re working to improve on. That said, we need to experiment and adapt or it’s likely we won’t always be in a position to keep investing in the ways we need, to build-out our games and offer excellence to you, our gamers.

I can categorically say that we’re not abandoning core, triple-A console and PC games. We’re working hard at improving how we develop our games and how we release them, and I want to explain that in a little more detail.

We’ve recently re-orientated our studio leadership to focus production expertise at the top, to allow us to ship the best quality games possible, faster and with better cost control. We’ve taken away administrative duties from studio heads, so they get closer to the games, gameplay and gamers with fewer distractions. We’ve made these changes to all of our studios in the Americas and Europe and we believe this will improve not only the quality of our games, but also improve the time between releases.

Square Enix is in production with a number of next generation projects, including Final Fantasy XV and Kingdom Hearts III, which were announced at this year’s E3, and Thief coming in 2014. I am also excited to reveal that we are well into development on a next-generation Tomb Raider sequel – something you may have heard about recently!

In the future, we’ll offer gamers more choice, support more platforms and try new things – but we will make sure that whatever the platform, we’ll always keep our focus on raising the quality bar. We feel that is what gamers should expect from a Square Enix game.

I’ve spent the past few months building a senior team in the Americas and Europe to support our new and evolving strategy. We plan to share a fuller title release plan with you soon on games ranging from next-gen blockbusters (the above mentioned Tomb Raider sequel) to new cutting-edge tablet and mobile games (such as the recently released Deus Ex: The Fall), to live and online PC games (our now in beta Heroes & Generals).

You will definitely hear more soon about which games we’re working on, when you should look out for them and more frequent updates on how development is going. Please feel free to mail me your feedback. I can’t promise I’ll respond to every mail but you can be sure your concerns will be heard and taken on board.

Thanks for reading, Phil.

消息来源:http://na.square-enix.com/en/blog/note-phil-rogers-ceo