Team Ico‘s Project Trico recently – I mean that in no sense of the word - received a name face lift, and here’s the reasons as to why. According to Kotaku, Yasuhide Kobayashi, SCEE senior vice president, stated that The Last Guardian (Project Trico) was given a English title so that it would appeal more to the US and European markets.

“There are so many issues we have to solve, and the biggest challenge is that the market in Japan is shrinking — they key is gaining success in the US and Europe,” stated the exec. “At the time of the original PlayStation the Japanese market was one third of the global market, and production costs weren’t that high — so we were able to generate profit from that market alone.”

“But now we’re in the era of the PlayStation 3, and the Japanese market is only one fifth of the global market — when it comes to production costs, those are swelling, so it means that unless we gain success in the overseas market our studio will go bankrupt,” said Kobayashi. “It’s a crisis we recognize.”

In all the recent videos, not including the ones at E3, Final Fantasy XIII has been featured with it’s translated English dialog. However, we can now confirm that, that should no longer be an issue. Because Square Enix has revealed that they have completed the remainder of all the English dialog for Final Fantasy XIII.

“Sweet! English VO for FFXIII is complete,” stated Square Enix’s Klee Kuo twitter feed.

I’m not a person for big wracked out Collector’s Bundle, after all what happen with Fable II really did turn me off from buying them. But, this “Royal Bundle” looks like it really can’t disappoint.

Today, it was announced that TopWare Entertainment continuing its tradition of high-class collector editions with its upcoming title, X-Blades.

The “Collector’s Bundles”, for all platforms, will be on the market at the same time as the standard versions – on the 14th of January 2009. Highlights in the boxes are a 22 cm. hand-painted statue of the heroine Ayumi and a top-class artbook depicting the game.

There’s also a soundtrack CD, a double-theme poster and a strategy guide. If you purchase the PC version, you’ll even get an extra bonus – a mousepad. Language-wise, TopWare has also done the game proud – it’s been fully localized in English, French, Italian, German and Russian – and there are sub-titles in Hungarian, Polish, Czech and Spanish which can be combined in any way with the speech recordings.