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Tony Holmsten’s Video Game Art Is A Final Fantasy

9:00PM June 29, 2011 | Luke Plunkett

Tony Holmsten, formerly of Sweden now living in Japan, has been working as a video game artist since 2002 at two of Sweden’s biggest studio’s, Battlefield developers DICE and the now-defunct Grin. More »

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Bankrupted Studio Says Square Enix Demanded Code By Fax, Didn’t Recognize FFXII Screenshots

3:00AM May 29, 2011 | Owen Good

In a feature story published today in Sweden, the founders of GRIN lay their studio’s precipitous demise at Square Enix’s feet, saying the publisher reneged on payments during the development of a Final Fantasy game and saddled them with ridiculous requirements as the project went sour. More »

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When Your Developer Goes Bust, The Music Must Go On

11:00PM February 22, 2011 | Luke Plunkett

Game designer (and musical maestro) Simon Viklund has had some adjusting to do over the past few years, watching a game series he was once a driving force behind end up in the arms of another man. Well, team. More »

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Bionic Commando Rearmed Makers Get 1Up With New Studio

5:00AM April 17, 2010 | Brian Crecente

The Swedish game makers behind Bionic Commando Rearmed are back with a new studio and new unannounced game. More »

Rumour: Leaked ‘Tech Demo” Footage Of Final Fantasy: Fortress

4:00AM January 18, 2010 | Owen Good

This is a two-minute, 30-second video said to be of a tech demonstration of “Fortress,” the Final Fantasy project GRIN was said to have been working on when the Swedish studio closed. More »

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Another Game From The GRIN Grave

2:30PM January 12, 2010 | Owen Good

Our Swedish friends weren’t just working on a Final Fantasy project when the studio went belly-up last year. A former GRIN artist has posted concepts from a ninja action/adventure game, and it sounds like it was a new IP. More »

GRIN’s Ill-Fated “Fortress” Still Under Development

8:40AM September 22, 2009 | Owen Good

Citing unnamed sources, GamesIndustry.biz says the Final Fantasy spinoff codenamed “Fortress” has not died along with original developer GRIN. When the Stockholm studio closed, Fortress had already been taken back by Square Enix. More »

A Final Look Inside GRIN’s “Fortress”

8:30AM September 14, 2009 | Owen Good

An anonymous tipster attended GRIN’s going-out-of-business sale at the closed studio’s offices in Stockholm and snapped several pictures that seem to be of its work on the Final Fantasy game it was rumoured to be making for Square Enix. More »

More Art From GRIN’s Cancelled Final Fantasy Project

3:30PM September 9, 2009 | Luke Plunkett

We don’t normally enjoy loitering around what is essentially a corpse, but when it’s a Final Fantasy game that was in production at a Swedish studio, well, you can excuse us for being curious. More »

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GRIN Were Working On A Final Fantasy Game

1:45PM August 20, 2009 | Luke Plunkett

There were the faintest of rumblings about this months ago, but now that GRIN are officially out of business, it can officially come to light that they’d been working on… a Final Fantasy game. More »