The mercurial Ono-san (accompanied by AP David Crislip and a tiny Blanka doll (barely visible in the pic below)) descended on the Game Developer’s Conference yesterday to shake hands and talk background on how SFIV came to be, some of the core concepts that guided the team, and resurrecting a genre-defining franchise while living up to high player expectations and honoring their memories.

Gamespot has a nice piece up on the talk here –check it out.