This one isn’t related to Record of Agarest War either.

Well, most of them. When we spoke with Motomu Toriyama, Director of Final Fantasy XIII, we brought your questions. In this interview we discuss Japanese voiceovers, the cut content, and lessons learned post development.

Silicon Studio is a middleware company, but last year they started developing video games. We spoke with Takehiro Terada about the decision and brought your 3D Dot Game Heroes questions to the interview.

What’s next for the Final Fantasy series? Final Fantasy XIV, of course. But when it comes to the distant future Motomu Toriyama, Director of Final Fantasy XIII, shared his thoughts about the franchise.

This photo was taken from Motomu Toriyama’s panel entitled “The Crystal Mythos and Final Fantasy XIII.” Don’t think too hard about it.

On the GDC show floor, an exhibitor is demoing a Super Monkey Ball-esque virtual reality system.

You’ve played Final Fantasy XIII, read reviews, maybe even user reviews from Amazon Japan. Before those came out, Square Enix had focus groups rate Final Fantasy XIII’s story, characters, and game balance. This is what they thought.

3D Dot Game Heroes is only a PlayStation 3 game. OK, why? I brought the question to Takehiko Terada, President and CEO of Silicon Studios, the developer of 3D Dot Game Heroes.

NeuroSky, a company that specializes in brain to computer interface devices, brought a game called Mind Invaders to GDC.

But, not too secret meetings since the studio is talking about them on Twitter.

Johnathan Jacques-Belletete outlined two metaphors that define Deus Ex: Human Revolution. As a side note, we’re meeting with the team so if you have questions post them in the comments.

Motion Fighters caught my attention during the PlayStation Move presentation. It was explained as a gritty street fighting game with motion control, but really it’s a motion controlled boxing simulator.

… you help a girl, riding an office chair, escape from the Yakuza.

Like on rail shooters? Sony is making one called The Shoot (working title) where you shoot robots.

During his GDC keynote on game design, Sakamoto revealed that, originally, Metroid: Other M was being conceived with invisible walls, essentially making it an on-rails game, in a sense.

Remember the Nintendo DS game that looks like The Incredible Machine, but stars a curious girl who chases butterflies? Sure you do, it’s called Coropata in Japan, but may have a different title if it gets picked up by a publisher in the West.