Final Fantasy creator’s Mistwalker studio teams up with Bravely Default maker Silicon Studio

Hironobu Sakaguchi, the creator of the Final Fantasy series, has been quiet lately. But his company Mistwalker announced today it is teaming up with Silicon Studio, the developer that created the Bravely Default game, on a new title.

Details were sketchy, but the studios released one piece of concept art. Tokyo-based Silicon Studio said the art is from artist Kimihiko Fujisaka. Fujisaka created that artwork more than seven years ago, and it is finally seeing the light of day.

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Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.