Mistwalker has had a history of mixed success in its roughly 13 years as a studio. Although its produced acclaimed works like Lost Odyssey and Blue Dragon, some of its projects never hit the level of financial success that founder (and crea...   read

The "father of Final Fantasy" Hironobu Sakaguchi is still making Japanese RPGs, albeit no longer with Square Enix, but with the company he founded in 2004, Mistwalker (Lost Odyssey, The Last Story). As we reported last week, the company wi...   read

I wasn't a fan of Blue Dragon when I tried the demo years ago. Maybe it was the map they chose or how overpowered you were, but I didn't get on with the game. Lots of people did and have been asking for a remaster or for the original to lan...   read

The newest batch of backward compatible titles for the Xbox One have been released, and it's a pretty solid selection of games this time. Lost Odyssey, Toy Story 3, and Guwange all just became playable on the Xbox One. Of the three, Lost O...   read

Silicon Studio and Mistwalker are jointly developing a new game, the studios just announced. What they won't tell us is what the game is called, what it looks like, or when it might come out. But all will be revealed, they promise, at a lat...   read

Last week, Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi gave a master class presentation at the University of Hawaii's West Oahu campus as part of a series of talks aimed to increase students' understanding of the business of content creation. ...   read

It looks like Lost Odyssey and The Last Story studio Mistwalker is staffing up for a new project. On Saturday, company founder and Final Fantasy dad Hironobu Sakaguchi put out a call for new employees, specifically mentioning his team is in...   read

After eclipsing the 2 million download mark with its new mobile RPG Terra Battle, Mistwalker was supposed to begin work on a console game based on the same world and characters. Thing is, that hasn't happened yet. Though the studi...   read

Mistwalker's Terra Battle is coming to consoles, the studio announced today. The tactical role-playing game launched on iOS and Android devices last autumn with an intriguing "Download Starter" campaign, promising new content in c...   read

Hironobu Sakaguchi, creator of Final Fantasy and founder of Mistwalker (Last Story) will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 15th annual Game Developers Choice Awards in March. The award show will be streamed online Wedn...   read

Cry On, an ill-fated role-playing game co-developed by Mistwalker and now-defunct studio Cavia, has reappeared after being put on ice six years ago. Final Fantasy creator and Mistwalker founder Hironobu Sakaguchi shared the shelved project...   read

Hironobu Sakaguchi is best known as the creator of Final Fantasy; a man responsible for some of the most influential and well-respected role-playing games of our time. His sprawling worlds and epic adventures have touched millions of people...   read

Destructoid recently caught up with Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi to discuss Mistwalker's next project, Terra Battle. The title is a role-playing game that draws inspiration from the tactical board game shogi (also known as Japan...   read

The official Terra Battle website is open for business, and with it a brand new trailer and screenshots outlining the "Download Starter" model the game is set to operate on. The more the game is downloaded, the more content that'll be fold...   read

This week is all gamescom, but if we turn out attention towards a couple weeks in the future for a moment, the creator of Final Fantasy and Mistwalker head Hironobu Sakaguchi is going to do a panel at PAX Prime on August 29 about ...   read

Visit Mistwalker's webpage and you'll find that the top image is of something new. Maybe concept art. It looks a bit like The Last Story in color and theme, but there really is no indication of what it might be. The bottom right corner has ...   read

The Last Story's journey to North America was certainly a long one, but it sounds like this tale has a happy ending. XSEED has announced Mistwalker's RPG is now the most successful title in its eight-year history. After having sold nearly i...   read

With gamescom kicking off its onslaught of news, the Destructoid frontpage has been alight with posts today. In fact, it's been so busy that you might have managed to miss three pretty big reviews. We reviewed Sleeping Dogs, Darksiders II, ...   read

In trying to get Nintendo to release The Last Story in North America, I count myself among the most vocal of petitioners. As a fan of Mistalker's work and a lover of Lost Odyssey, I considered it the perfect swan song for the Wii, the kind ...   read

Here we go again. Speaking with Gamezone in a recent interview Miswalker's Takuya Matsumoto discussed The Last Story developer's future projects, which might include the possibility of more action-RPGs for Nintendo's next home console. The...   read

Mistwalker's next game isn't a massive multi-disc RPG or anything even close to that. It's a surfing game called Party Wave. Let that name echo around in your brain for a second. Sakaguchi's recent tweet: Finally the surfing game...   read

If you've devoted your heart and soul to a little letter-writing campaign by the name of Operation Rainfall over the course of the past year would it surprise you that your efforts were for naught and your words fell on deaf ears? Ko...   read

If you're even slightly interested in The Last Story you might want to strike while the iron is hot. While XSEED Games is localizing Final Fantasy creator and Mistwalker founder Hironobu Sakaguchi's cult Wii role-player later this summ...   read

As a lifelong fan of the JRPG genre, particularly Hironobu Sakaguchi and Nobuo Uematsu’s respective work on the Final Fantasy franchise, I’ve been as excited as anyone for The Last Story, especially in light of this generation&r...   read

You were going to get The Last Story anyway, weren't you? You don't need a new batch of screenshots to make up your mind. After waiting all this time Mistwalker's game is finally coming to North America some time this summer. It's...   read