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SCE Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida has said that it’s “misleading” to describe The Last Guardian as “on hiatus”, as it’s still in active development.

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Fumito Ueda has posted a status update on his website in an effort to assure fans that development on The Last Guardian continues, and that he is still involved in a freelance capacity.

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If last week’s quote from the head of PlayStation software development, Scott Rhode, wasn’t enough to put your mind at ease with regard to highly anticipated and in-no-way-canned Sony title, The Last Guardian, here’s another. This time it’s from the beautiful mind that brought us Ico, Shadow of the Colossus and is helping to (eventually) bring us The Last Guardian, the man himself, Fumito Ueda, who told Kotaku that work is indeed coming along on the title, “It’s been business as usual,” he said. “The only things that’ve really changed are the terms of my contract.”

So, there you have it. What more could you possibly want? Oh, you want the actual game? Oh. Right.

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Deadline’s reporting that Chronicle director Josh Trank has signed on to direct the Shadow of the Colossus film from Sony Pictures, after requesting the position. The report states writers are currently being interviewed. Trank, is apparently a very busy man: he’s supposedly discussing developing Fantastic Four for Fox and Spider-Man spinoff Venom for Sony Pictures, and is also reported to be working with Warner Bros on an adaptation of Red Star, so who knows how long it will be before SotC is released. A movie based on the Team ICO masterpiece has been in the pipeline Joystiq.

Sony WorldWide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida has said The Last Guardian is still coming along nicely, but it’s making “slow progress.”

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Sony’s confirmed that Fumito Ueda has left the company, ending speculation on the Team ICO boss’s future.

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Sony’s told IGN that Team ICO boss Fumito Ueda is “committed” to finishing up development on The Last Guardian.

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Responding to rumours of his resignation from Sony, Team Ico leader Fumito Ueda has tweeted a reassurance that he’s still working on the studio’s long-delayed new release.

“There’s no need to worry, as The Last Guardian is still in production,” he said, according to Andriasang‘s translation.

Thanks, 1UP.

According to sources close to Eurogamer, Team Ico’s Fumito Ueda is quitting Sony, and will finish up work on The Last Guardian in a “freelance capacity.”

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Team ICO boss Fumito Ueda has said that he won’t be attending E3 in a week-and-a-half, casting serious doubts over if The Last Guardian will also make an appearance.

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Sound-bites, snippets, bullshit. Read these quickly. As opposed to slowly.

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Team ICO head Fumito Ueda has stated that, depending on the circumstances, videogames can be classed as art, but varies on which definition it can be classed as.

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Team ICO boss Fumito Ueda has said he’s “considering” the possibility of a demo for The Last Guardian.

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A fresh round of Last Guardian previews has been published with Eurogamer, 1UP, Game Informer and Meristation all posting new impressions and interviews with Team Ico head Fumito Ueda. These are all based on visits to the studio in Tokyo during the NGP reveal in January. New shots have also been released. The game is expected later this year.

The new issue of Famitsu has provided a wealth of new information on The Last Guardian.

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The latest issue of PSM3 features a rather large spread on The Last Guardian, and according to the magazine, it was able to get hands-on with the Team Ico title and experience the “emotional interactions,” between the boy and Torico.

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Japanese specialist publishers Viz Media are set to release an English translation of Miyabe Miyuki’s Ico novelisation. Now you can suffer beautiful confusion in multiple formats.

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New footage of The Last Guardian has appeared online in the form of a Japanese TV segment on Team ICO boss Fumito Ueda.

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Fumito Ueda has told the US PS Blog that he’s “flattered” Shadow of the Colossus is considered a fine example for the games as art debate.

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Team Ico boss Fumito Ueda has said the R&D phase of The Last Guardian is finished, and the team has gone into crunch mode for the highly-anticipated title.

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