The name of the female character from the screenshot released by Square Enix has been revealed by today's Famitsu issue. She is, as rumors claimed, Irina Skyes, the sister of Rush Skyes - the main character of the game.
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Interactive Data Visualization, Inc. has announced that their award-winning SpeedTreeRT middleware will be used in Square Enix's upcoming next gen RPG title, The Last Remnant.
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Square Enix's new next-gen RPG has been confirmed for both platforms and for a simultaneous US/Japan release.
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According to Yoichi Wada, the president of Square Enix, The Last Remnant is "A Square Enix RPG for the world." It's going to be "the cornerstone of the Square Enix global strategy - a completely new franchise designed to take full advantage of next generation platforms." This is a new RPG for both the 360 and the PS3. Though they didn't say what platform the demo was taking place, it appeared to be 360 - but it was up and running for the demo. And most exciting, though they won't say when it ...
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A few days back, we posted an article about a new title been registered in the trademarks office by squareEnix. Today we bring you the first details surrounding the game.

-The game is scheduled for a release in 2008 on all next gen consoles( xbox360, Ps3 wii)
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Valve's VP of Marketing Doug Lombardi has revealed that Left 4 Dead was the "1 selling new IP on two platforms" in North America last year.
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This is the award every publisher wants to win, the Ultimate Game The Year award. If you pick this one up, you've made a really good game. In the nominations were giants such as Fallout 3, Call of Duty World at War, Left 4 Dead, Grand Theft Auto, IV and Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. See - them's some big guns.

But there can be only one. And the golden gong went to...
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HellDescent writes: "While playing the Left 4 Dead 2 demo, we noticed that our friends who were playing the original Left 4 Dead were showing up in in the main menu. Now why would players from the original Left 4 Dead have their online status displayed in Left 4 Dead 2? The only thing that comes to mind is the rumor/experimenting with linking the games that was on the web not too long ago. Valve aimed to bring both sides of Left 4 Dead fans together and stated they were attempting to link the 2 games. This little message under "Online Friends" in the main menu of Left 4 Dead 2 gives much the rumor a big tank sized injection of reality. Hopefully this means we wont have to leave Bill, Zoey, Francis and Louise behind. Only Valve and their super big vault of secrets now that answer. For now, we will have to wait a few more weeks to full release."
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HellDescent writes:" Hidden within the Left 4 Dead 2 demo, Steam user Fade Guy found what appears to be a listing of Avatar Awards for the Xbox 360 version of Left 4 Dead 2. The list is as follows:

.Med Kit: Earned by beating all five campaigns.
.Bull Shifters Shirt: earned by winning 10 games of Versus.
.A Left 4 Dead 2 shirt: Earned by winning 10 games of Scavenge.
.Zombie Hand Shirt: Earned by killing 10,000 Infected.
.Depeche Mode Shirt: Earned by rescuing Gnome Chompski from the Dark Carnival.

Update: G4 has confirmed the Awards with video proof"
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Critical Gamer Writes: Today, we give you our interview with Left 4 Dead 2 writer Chet Faliszek. Good enough in itself; but it's turned up two very interesting comments.

A huge chunk of what makes the Left 4 Dead games so good is Valve's exclusive 'AI Director' which controls enemy behaviour, placement, and even the music; so no two games are ever exactly alike, and nothing is predictable. But could the Director be adapted for a single player game? We asked Chet and he replied:

"We have definitely thought along those lines. Replayability is just as important in single player games as it is in multiplayer games. The AI Director helps us bring that to our games so you should be looking out for variations on it in the future."
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