he noted, "but I want to
FIFA Coins make a game that one billion people play at once, and it's something that hits them harder than a great book or film."Halo 4 was
announced at E3 earlier this year, and marks "the dawn of a new trilogy for Xbox
360," according to Microsoft's Don Mattrick.343 Industries is also in the
process of developing a remastered version of the original Halo title for Xbox,
named Halo Anniversary.[UPDATE: A Microsoft rep responded to Payton's departure
in a statement to
: "343 Industries has assembled an all-star cast of talent working on Halo 4 under the design leadership of Studio and Halo 4 Creative Director, Josh Holmes.
We're excited to tell the next story in the
MU Legend Zen Halo universe with Halo 4 as the
first game in the Reclaimer Trilogy.""Ryan Payton, who left earlier this summer,
served as Narrative Designer on Halo 4 for 15 months. Armando Troisi was hired
as the Halo 4 Narrative Director in March, having formerly served as the Lead
Cinematic Designer
Mass Effect 2. Ryan has been a great friend and colleague during his tenure at 343 Industries and we appreciate his contributions to the team. We wish Ryan
the best in his new game development venture."Yoshinori Ono is Capcom's big
rising star. He's the face of Street Fighter's reinvention with Street Fighter
IV, brought back Marvel vs. Capcom for a third installment, and is now crossing
over with Tekken.His games have been multi-million sellers, and for all the
gripes from the hardcore community
they sure do play these games a lot.Gamasutra took a brief moment to
mmogo discuss fighting games with Ono in a general sense, and to find out where he's taking
them.With SF IV Arcade Edition, you?ve added Yun and Yang, two of the most
notorious characters from SF III. From what I?ve heard, they still manage to
dominate the way they did before. Did you do anything to try to combat
this?Yoshinori Ono: Yes. We pay constant attention to the balance of our
characters and overall roster
