By Paul Sinclair | Posted on May 11, 2007

As a precursor to its upcoming Square Enix Party in Japan, Square Enix unveiled a number of both previously announced and new forthcoming titles in development for multiple platforms, at a press conference at its headquarters.

According to our friends at GameSpot via GamaSutra, a key announcement made during the Square Enix press conference came in the form of The Last Remnant, a new original action RPG being developed for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Designed to appeal to a global audience rather than just those players in Japan, The Last Remnant's lead developeris Nobuyuki Ueda, and is being built using Epic Games' Unreal Engine 3 middleware technology.

The company originally licensed the technology from Epic earlier this year, stating at that time that the publisher is “now building a combined technology platform to use throughout the company, utilizing proprietary technologies as well as third-party solutions such as Unreal Engine 3”.

Among the titles announced are the following. For PSP, two new titles, Star Ocean: The First Departure and Star Ocean: The Second Evolution are PSP remakes of the first two games in the franchise. With updated 3D graphics, voice overs and new in-game content. Enix also revealed that curently in collaboration with developers tri-Ace on the next game in the series, Star Ocean 4.....