In this interview, we spoke with producer Hiroyuki Abe about creating Unchained Blades and chatted a bit about the 3DS/PSP sequel Unchained Blades Exxiv.

You’ve probably never heard of Circle Entertainment. They’re a videogame developer in Hong Kong, and their focus is on developing for DSiWare and Nintendo eShop.

“We wanted to mix the best elements of the Ys and Trails series. We get feedback from fans of the Trails series that they really love the story, but the battles take a very long time.”

We got in touch with Capcom Senior Community Manager, Brett Elston, to talk about the ongoing Mega Man 25th anniversary celebration.

“It started back in 2008. I was only working on it over the holidays and in my free time. If I were to combine all of the work over the past several years, it would probably take about half a year of full working days.”

Since fans have been asking about a Western release, we asked Senran Kagura producer Kenichiro Takaki if Marvelous AQL would work with Xseed to localize it or somehow bring it to the West.

“The core concept behind the character in Rising is that Raiden is always moving forward. We don’t want him hiding, dodging attacks, or rolling away,” said Atsushi Inaba, Producer at PlatinumGames.

We know Cave is bringing Dodonpachi Saidaioujou for Xbox 360, but what else is the maniac shooter company working on? We picked the brain of Game Development Head Makoto Asada to see what their future plans are.

“It was more work than we thought. We thought we would just redraw everything HD, but then again we added double the number of levels like the Hyper Drive bonus levels and that took that a long time,” said Voldi Way, “Tyrannical Overlord” of WayForward.

Rising Star Games is becoming the main shooter publisher in the West. They brought Dodonpachi Resurrection and Deathsmiles to Europe. Now, they are working with Senko no Ronde developer G.rev on Under Defeat HD.

In our interview, we also talked about creating Jim, the game’s bearded hero, and how Rig fights are kind of like Punchout.

“Well, from the Capcom side, it’s a very much a situation of when I saw the coverage coming out of E3 for Dead Space 3, the first emotion was flattery,” said Andrew Szymanski from Capcom.

How do you get Stan Lee to work with you on a video game? That’s the question I had in mind when I met Matt Kozlov, CEO of Moonshark and developer of Verticus.

“Our first leak started out in a focus test, you know. We were really interested in getting fan-feedback for this game, because we feel like fans are the ones that are going to show up day-one to go out and buy this thing.”