Quantum of Solace

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Square Enix has made another giant leap in its internationally minded publishing efforts. The company announced today that it will serve as Japanese publisher for Quantum of Solace. This latest James Bond game conversion was published overseas last year by Activision.

As is the tradition with Bond films, our friends across the Atlantic will be getting the upcoming Bond game first as well. Rock out a Bond song on Guitar Hero also.

Those in line at the midnight premier event for the Quantum of Solace game will get the exclusive opportunity to be one of the first to play the Bond song Another Way to Die performed by Jack White and Alicia Keys which is soon-to-be-released as downloadable content for Activision's Guitar Hero World Tour.

Vasper of Neogaf got his hands on a copy of the soon to be release title.

Following Electronic Theatre's report on last week's Resistance 2 Beta Key Giveaway for customers who pre-order at Gamestation in the UK, we now have details of a similar promotion the retailer is now offering for the forthcoming Quantum of Solace from Activision. Here's the release details in full...

PS3 Fanboy writes: Big smiles on both sides of the Atlantic this week. America gets three big games in the form of LittleBigPlanet, MotorStorm PR and Fallout 3. Europe may not be getting their hands on LittleBigPlanet until next week, but at least they've got Fallout 3, Quantum of Solace and Valkyria Chronicles to tide them over which, from what we've seen, look to all be excellent titles. Here's the full release list: US Games * LittleBigPlanet * SingStar Vol. 2 * MotorStorm Pacific Rift * Fallout 3 (Collector's Edition) * Moto GP 08 * Baja 1000: Score International * Guitar Hero World Tour EU Games * Fallout 3 (Collector's Edition) * James Bond: Quantum of Solace * Siren: Blood Curse * Valkyria Chronicles * To End All Wars * Buzz! Quiz TV Special Edition * Hail To The Chimp Asian Games * Fallout 3 * Fracture * Gran Turismo 5: Prologue Spec III * Grand Theft Auto IV * LittleBigPlanet * SOCOM: Confrontation * Yamasa Digi World SP: Bounty Killer

Talking to D+PAD, Quantum of Solace's lead designer Adam Gascoigne has confirmed that we will be seeing a new James Bond game every year, but Treyarch won't be developing the next one. Asked whether the rumour that Bond is to turn into an annual franchise was true, Gascoigne replied: Yeah I read that one too. There is more Bond to come - I know Activision said that they were going to do a yearly Bond title - but I know that Treyarch won't be doing next year's because we don't believe in just banging out a licensed game every year. From Treyarch's point of view we wouldn't be able to make a game with the quality we want in one year - we've done that before and it was too much! We did it with Call of Duty 3 and it was hard, hard work. If we were to work on another Bond it wouldn't be until 2010, but we don't know for sure yet. I know that we're ready and we're Bond fanatics and we really believe in the gameplay - I think that has places to go - so I hope we get it.

Classic N64 shooter GoldenEye OO7 is a 500lb gorilla, according to Quantum of Solace developer Treyarch. Speaking to VideoGamer.com in an interview to be published later this week, Treyarch's Adam Gascoine, the co-design director on Quantum of Solace, said that GoldenEye acts as a motivator for the team. Quantum of Solace, due out at the end of the month, is Treyarch and publisher Activision's first stab at a Bond game following the change-over in license rights from EA. It's the game of the first two Daniel Craig Bond games - Casino Royale and the soon to be released Quantum of Solace.

Treyarch is already thinking about a follow up to upcoming Bond title Quantum of Solace, the developer has revealed. Speaking to VideoGamer.com, Treyarch's Adam Gascoine, the co-design director on Quantum of Solace, said that the team wants to do another Bond game because it has a lot more to say and wants the jump to be similar to the one gamers saw with Halo to Halo 2, and Call of Duty to Call of Duty 2. He said: I do know that our team wants to work on the next Bond. Because we feel we have a lot more to say. The first game in a franchise is never the greatest game ever made. We've got a really good game and we're really proud of it but we want to build. We want to go like Call of Duty 1 to Call of Duty 2, Halo 1 to Halo 2. We want to make sure that gamers can play this and say all right this is the start of a dynasty. This is going to get better and better and better.