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Big preview of the closed door 15min demo, so looking forward to this.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-03-02-the-last-guardian-preview

Plus the ICO collection is due next month(?).

I loved screaming at Yorda!

Bitch! get over here now dammit!

GDC preview:

http://gdc.gamespot.com/story/6301593/the-last-guardian-preview

SCEE has delayed both the last Guardian & Ico HD collection. A new date has still to be announced.

Not just SCEE... both have been delayed everywhere. SCEE most definitely has no say over delaying an SCEJ game.

Did not see the point in a separate thread for the team ico collection:

So have they decided on a def release date for the collection? And when is last guardian scheduled for release?

September 22 for Japan. Rest of the world probably later in the year.

As for Last Guardian... no one knows.

Just a few more weeks now for ICO/SOTC HD Collection !!!

Nowgamer review 9.4

"Sony has shown incredible faith in the PS3’s userbase to put time and money into re-releasing two commercial flops, in the hope that this time people will actually buy them. And you know what? They’re absolutely, without a doubt, worth buying."

http://www.nowgamer.com/ps3/ps3-reviews/1036662/ico_shadow_of_the_colossus_classics_hd.html

Eurogamer 9/10

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-09-08-ico-and-shadow-of-the-colossus-collection-hd-review

WIll pick these up when they are cheaper. Loved them but im not really into rebuying games I have aleady beaten.

Pity THe Last Guardian will not be at tgs though

Ico, Shadow of the Colossus and The Last Guardian creator Fumito Ueda has left Sony, Eurogamer understands.

Japanese video game development sources indicated the 41-year-old is working on finishing oft-delayed PlayStation 3 exclusive The Last Guardian in a freelance capacity.

Ueda's departure from Sony internal development studio Team Ico is one of the reasons for the game's protracted development, Eurogamer was told.

Following the completion of the game, Ueda will embark on personal projects.

In September Sony reassured gamers that Team Ico was still "hard at work" on The Last Guardian, despite the high-profile PS3 exclusive missing the Tokyo Game Show.

The previous month SCE Studios president Shuhei Yoshida gave an exasperated-sounding Last Guardian progress update:

"It's been very difficult in terms of seeing the progress: not as fast as we'd been hoping for, and the team has been under big pressure," he said.

The Last Guardian was delayed earlier this year to an unspecified time in 2012. The cat-eagle adventure was originally slated for a "late 2011" release.

Ueda was director and lead designer on PlayStation 2 games Ico and Shadow of the Colossus, which both took four years to develop.

The Last Guardian was first mentioned as being in development over four years ago, in February 2007, by Japanese magazine Famitsu. It was eventually revealed at E3 2009 with an eye-catching trailer. However, it failed to show at E3 2011, Gamescom 2011 and Tokyo Game Show 2011.

Sony told Eurogamer it does not comment on rumour and speculation.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-11-30-the-last-guardian-creator-fumito-ueda-leaves-sony-rumour

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-02-21-sony-us-and-uk-teams-helping-out-on-the-last-guardian

Sony US and UK teams helping out on The Last Guardian. One of the teams is Santa Monica.

Yoshida had this to say: it's playable, but not to the point that we can talk about the timing of launch

Thank goodness Sony got rid of that hack Ueda... one of the best things SCEJ has done recently (along with Graivty Daze)

Good news. If the team was struggling, Sony should've assist them earlier though - when you see the interviews on the net with Team ICo its surprising to see how small a team it actually is...

Would be great if it happens:

Josh Trank has signed with Sony Pictures to develop and direct Shadow Of The Colossus, a big-scale live-action adaptation of the bestselling Sony video game. The film is being produced by Kevin Misher.

http://www.deadline.com/2012/05/chronicle-helmer-josh-trank-takes-on-shadow-of-the-colossus-for-sony-pictures/

Budget is going to be hard to get right on that one. Needs enough to create convincing creatures, but not too enough where they will battle to get the money back.

Added some newer images to the header post - Hoping we get a big splash of news / progress on this title at E3

No new news for this in E3. This is what Sony had to say.

The Last Guardian to ship 'when absolutely ready' - Sony

E3 2012: Sony exec says long-in-development action game skipped E3 again so Team Ico could focus on innovation and quality.

LOS ANGELES--The Last Guardian will ship "when it is absolutely ready," Sony senior vice president of product development Scott Rohde told GameSpot this afternoon. The executive explained that the long-in-development action game was not at E3 this year because developer Team Ico is focused on building the best game possible.

"I will not give you a detailed update, but I will say one thing. It goes back in my mind to innovation and to gamers and to quality," he said. "That title is going to ship when it is absolutely ready."

Rohde went on to explain that Sony has no deadline whatsoever for The Last Guardian.

"And I think that's a really important thing to remember, that it would be very easy to ship a game when it's not quite ready because we need to meet a business plan," he said. "Gamers are first. And the experience that we provide is first. And that's why we're going to talk about that game when we're ready to talk about it."

The last official word Sony gave on The Last Guardian came in February, when Sony Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida said development on the game has been "tough."

Formally announced at the 2009 Electronic Entertainment Expo, The Last Guardian tells a boy-and-his-dog tale, where the dog is a giant feathered, yet seemingly amiable, beast. Team Ico has not been forthcoming with specific plot details, but gameplay will involve the boy manipulating his companion to navigate a variety of environmental puzzles.

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Personally I am happy to wait

Well its understandable that it was not at E3. I personally was not expecting, nor am I expecting it at Gamescom (but I am more open to it being there).

The Last Guardian Still in Development for PS3

Work on The Last Guardian remains ongoing, with the title still scheduled to release on PS3.

That's according to Sony Worldwide Studios chief Shuhei Yoshida, who told Eurogamer today that the reason the game hasn't been seen recently is due to myriad technical issues.

"The team is still working on it very hard, there are certain technical issues they've been working on," he explained. "That's the period of time when the game, looking from the outside, doesn't seem to be making much progress. But internally there is a lot of work going into creating the title."

Despite being officially announced in 2009, information about the highly anticipated title has been thin on the ground after it missed TGS 2011 and then was absent from E3 2012. Yoshida made similar remarks last month regarding technical problems, though his words today suggest the scale of the problems are much larger than was originally imagined, with the team having to re-do past work.

He said, "We had the game playable. At one point we felt that it would be produced for a certain time period. That was the time we prematurely talked about the launch window. But it turned out the technical issues are much harder to solve. So the engineering team had to go back and re-do some of the work they had done."

There's still no word on when we'll get our hands on the game, or even see it in action, but Yoshida reiterated that "The game is developed on PS3", so hopefully we'll see it before the next wave of consoles hit.

Just last week the trademark for The Last Guardian was apparently "abandoned", leading many to fear that the game was destined to become vaporware. Thankfully, today's comments suggest this isn't the case and we will see the title on PS3...eventually.
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Could The Last Guardian End Up Being A PS4 Launch Title?

It might be absolutely essential for the PlayStation 4 to have at least one hugely anticipated title on store shelves for the hardware launch.

Might one extremely long-awaited game fit the bill...?

Sony continues to maintain that The Last Guardian, first unveiled over three years ago, is still in development. The saga surrounding this game is lengthy and troublesome, as creator Fumito Ueda left Sony to go freelance, Sony president Shuhei Yoshida cited "technical difficulties" multiple times, and we've seen next to nothing in terms of new information and media. Basically zip.

Now, Amazon.com has sent out emails to those who pre-ordered the game, saying the title has been delayed to "January 2, 2014," which sounds like just another placeholder date. A few things to consider: Firstly, most all of Sony's internal studios are currently working on next-gen projects; this has been well documented, and the company has even talked about the juggling required for such teams to produce PS3, Vita, and PS4 games. Secondly, there's a very good chance the PS4 will be out by the time The Last Guardian finally arrives.

Thirdly and lastly, it's always important to consider the original vision for the project. Ueda has never been anything less than ambitious, and I wouldn't be surprised to learn that current hardware wasn't capable of achieving that lofty vision. Ubisoft just said that Assassin's Creed III almost didn't make it this generation due to the sheer size and scope of the game. Perhaps another element that comes into play is Sony's acknowledgement that a new piece of hardware requires a great launch lineup; they delayed the Vita release for the express purpose of having the "biggest launch software lineup" in the PlayStation brand's history.

If you put all this together, I don't think anybody should be shocked if find out that The Last Guardian has become a next-gen project.

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