"When developing a story, the way we're doing it now with our next project, we're starting much earlier with the writing. We've got a writer on board and we're spending a lot of time on the shop floor, in the studio with the designers, including the level designers, working out the narrative flow, the locations. I think it's absolutely essential. Last time round we didn't really involve our designers in the process so the story became a nuisance to what they were trying to do which was create gameplay. Now we've involved them all together there's a much bigger appreciation of the gameplay and story."

"Right now we're working on an exciting new concept that has got everyone we talk to buzzing. We can't say a lot except that it's going to be great to work on and should be even better to play! It'll take all the things we loved about Heavenly Sword and make them bigger and better than ever before."