Gamasutra sat down with Square Enix President and CEO Yoichi Wada and Eidos CEO Phil Rogers during E3 last week, and came away with the companies' intended plans for the future. Remember, Square Enix took over the troubled Eidos, but the publisher would retain its independence within the Square Enix Group.

One of the major plans? To begin collaboration on IPs leveraging each of the companies' available assets and strengths. This includes the sharing of IPs, the first of which can be seen with the recently unveiled SRPG-turned-third person shooter Front Mission: Evolved, which is being developed by North American studio Double Helix. This can be extended in the form of Eidos using Square Enix's animation and manga properties to create games, and vice versa, with Square Enix leverage their anime/manga resources for Eidos video game IPs.

Expect the full interview from Gamasutra soon.

Could Square Enix and Eidos create IP together? Could they work with each others' IP? Here, Square Enix CEO and president Yoichi Wada and Eidos CEO Phil Rogers discuss with Gamasutra the intertwined creative future of the two companies.

Japanese third-party giant Square Enix has completed its takeover of embattled UK publisher Eidos. Now, the two must move forward in building a meaningful relationship between the two companies.

At last week's E3 trade show in Los Angeles, Gamasutra got the chance to sit down with the executives and discuss these plans in depth -- and here, we present an extract of that interview, in which the two execs describe a roadmap moving forward for potential IP collaboration for the companies.

The question jumped off from a discussion of the Foundation 9 studio Double Helix's latest game, announced at E3 -- Front Mission: Evolved, in which the California-based studio creates the latest entry in a series originally pioneered at Square's Tokyo offices in the pre-Enix merger Super Nintendo era.

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