Sony may have a 10 year plan for PS3, and Microsoft may be extending the life of the 360 with Project Natal — heck, even Nintendo has repeatedly stated it’s sticking with the Wii — but Square Enix is reading between the lines and gearing up for the next generation of gaming regardless. IGN spotted a listing over at the official Square Enix website that seeks a variety of technical positions “in anticipation of the appearance of next generation platforms.” From 3D graphics core programmers to technical artists (and pretty much everything in between), the new hires will be charged with development of a “new generation game engine development project” — presumably the next iteration of the company’s Crystal Tools game engine.
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As time progresses and technology races forward gaming engines start to get old. At some point game developers must put their old game engines out to pasture and start to develop new ones so that they can keep up with the ever advancing gaming marketplace. Square Enix is preparing to do just that by hiring a plethora of developers and programmers to get them where they need to be
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Square Enix hiring to build a new game engine
As time progresses and technology races forward gaming engines start to get old. At some point game developers must put their old game engines out to pasture and start to develop new ones so that they can keep up with the ever advancing gaming marketplace.
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Square Enix hiring to build a new game engine
As time progresses and technology races forward gaming engines start to get old. At some point game developers must put their old game engines out to pasture and start to develop new ones so that they can keep up with the ever advancing gaming marketplace.
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Square Enix hiring to build a new game engine
Final Fantasy XIII masterminds Yoshinori Kitase and Motomu Toriyama have stated that they’d be very interested in doing a direct sequel to Final Fantasy XIII , though they’re waiting to see how well the current game does in the West before dreaming up a XIII-2 . “In the past three years we worked both on the world and on the various systems,” says Kitase. “Creating these systems isn’t very glamorous and can frankly be a bit boring
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Developers discuss possibility of FF XIII sequel
Final Fantasy XIII masterminds Yoshinori Kitase and Motomu Toriyama have stated that they’d be very interested in doing a direct sequel to Final Fantasy XIII , though they’re waiting to see how well the current game does in the West before dreaming up a XIII-2 . “In the past three years we worked both on the world and on the various systems,” says Kitase. “Creating these systems isn’t very glamorous and can frankly be a bit boring. If we could do a XIII-2 , we could direct all our attention to the story and refine what we have already built.” That would be nice
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Developers discuss possibility of FF XIII sequel
Final Fantasy XIII masterminds Yoshinori Kitase and Motomu Toriyama have stated that they’d be very interested in doing a direct sequel to Final Fantasy XIII , though they’re waiting to see how well the current game does in the West before dreaming up a XIII-2 . “In the past three years we worked both on the world and on the various systems,” says Kitase. “Creating these systems isn’t very glamorous and can frankly be a bit boring. If we could do a XIII-2 , we could direct all our attention to the story and refine what we have already built.” That would be nice
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Developers discuss possibility of FF XIII sequel
Final Fantasy XIII masterminds Yoshinori Kitase and Motomu Toriyama have stated that they’d be very interested in doing a direct sequel to Final Fantasy XIII , though they’re waiting to see how well the current game does in the West before dreaming up a XIII-2 . “In the past three years we worked both on the world and on the various systems,” says Kitase. “Creating these systems isn’t very glamorous and can frankly be a bit boring
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Developers discuss possibility of FF XIII sequel
Final Fantasy XIII masterminds Yoshinori Kitase and Motomu Toriyama have stated that they’d be very interested in doing a direct sequel to Final Fantasy XIII , though they’re waiting to see how well the current game does in the West before dreaming up a XIII-2 . “In the past three years we worked both on the world and on the various systems,” says Kitase. “Creating these systems isn’t very glamorous and can frankly be a bit boring. If we could do a XIII-2 , we could direct all our attention to the story and refine what we have already built.” That would be nice
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Developers discuss possibility of FF XIII sequel
Many consider “Generation II” of Pokémon to be the highlight of the pocket monster series, and indeed it does represent the perfect point between depth and convolution, the moment before Pokémon became needlessly complicated and required fifteen spreadsheets in order to maximize its potential. Did you know that Silver and Gold were intended to be the last in the series, too? “I worked with the assumption that after we put out Gold and Silver , my work as far as Pokémon was concerned would be done,” explains Pokémon Company president Tsunekazu Ishihara ”I didn’t intend to make any more Pokémon titles
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Pokemon Gold/Silver were meant to be the series finale
