Final Fantasy XII

Yasumi Matsuno is a video game designer. He is one of a few designers to have two games receive a perfect score by Famitsu magazine. Vagrant Story and Final Fantasy XII were critically acclaimed by the magazine with a 40/40 score. Matsuno began his career at the Japanese video game developer Quest, where he created the Ogre Battle series of tactical role-playing games. In 1995, Matsuno joined Square after quitting Quest. His colleagues at... Square Enix usually called him by his nickname "YAZZ". At Square, Matsuno oversaw the development of Final Fantasy Tactics, as well as being the sole writer on the project, for the PlayStation. Similar in design and gameplay to Tactics Ogre, it was lauded for its highly intricate and convoluted story. After the release of Final Fantasy Tactics, Matsuno and his team began development on Vagrant Story. Smaller in scope than Final Fantasy Tactics, Vagrant Story was still highly regarded by critics and has gained somewhat of a cult following since its release. The game was one of the best selling games for Square on the PlayStation system.
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Akitoshi Kawazu is a Japanese game producer and game designer who was born in Kumamoto Prefecture. He studied ceramics at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. Kawazu joined Square in 1985. He is the creator of the SaGa and Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles series of role-playing video games and is now an executive producer at Square Enix and the head of the company's Production Team 2.

Daisuke Watanabe is a Japanese video game scenario writer that has been an employee of Square Enix since September, 1998. He is mostly known for his work on the role-playing video game series Final Fantasy and the action role-playing video game series Kingdom Hearts. Watanabe says that he has no fixed writing style. From drama to comedy, romance to politics, his writing style is broad. The way he writes for a specific video game is dependent on... how the original story writer wants their story to be portrayed in a script. He believes that his strength is his ability to create a screenplay that portrays the exact vision of the original story writer. Final Fantasy X was the first Final Fantasy game that Watanabe worked on. Kazushige Nojima has stated that he was assisted by other staff to create the scenario for the game. Watanabe was initially not part of the Final Fantasy XII development team. However, he was brought in to finish the script when the original scenario writer Yasumi Matsuno left Square Enix three quarters into development of the game due to sickness. Watanabe joined the development team in November 2004.
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Ubisoft Entertainment S.A. is a major French video game publisher and developer, with headquarters in Rennes, France. The company has a worldwide presence with 25 studios in 17 countries and subsidiaries in 26 countries. As of now, it is the third largest independent game publisher in Europe, and... the third largest in the United States. The company's largest development studio is Ubisoft Montreal, which currently employs more than 1,700 people. Yves Guillemot, a founding brother, was the chairman and CEO. As for 2008–2009 fiscal year, Ubisoft's revenue was €1.058 billion, reaching the 1 billion euro milestone for the first time in its history. Ubisoft has created its own film division called Ubisoft Motion Pictures which will create shows and films based on its games. The five brothers of the Guillemot family founded Ubisoft as a computer game publisher in March 1986 in France . Yves Guillemot soon made deals with Electronic Arts, Sierra On-Line, and MicroProse to distribute their games in France. By the end of the decade, Ubisoft began expanding to other markets, including the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
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