The composer of Suikoden I and II, Miki Higashino, gave an interview to Square Enix Music Online. In it, she talks about her life and work as a composer, her approach to composition, and experiences working on several different games (including the Suikoden series).

It's a great interview (kudos to Chris Greening). Read it and discuss on the forums!

Just announced today at the Tokyo Game Show 2011! I apologize if the source of the info is not very good, as there has been a flood of posts all over the fan communities. Pesmerga at suikox put together a nicely organized post...

Siliconera.com translates the game’s title as Genso Suikoden: The Woven Web of a Century. duckroll at suikox translate it as Suikoden: Centennial Tapestry.

• Official game site
  
• Konami (of Japan) has established a Twitter account, @genso573
• 4gamer article (in Japanese)
• Siliconera.com article (in English)
• Trailer at youtube
• View the topic at suikox
• Discuss on our forums

Based on the information, the game will likely follow the same story mechanics of Tierkreis (hundreds of worlds, Mark of the Stars).

While conducting an interview on 4gamer for their new upcoming RPG Frontier Gate a couple Konami employees stated that they were designing Frontier Gate from scratch as they had previously disbanded their Suikoden team and had therefore lost all their RPG-creation know-how.

Needless to say this is grim news for the Suikoden community. But, it does not mean a new team cannot take over the Suikoden name later. Konami has done this before with other franchises, such as Silent Hill. There is also still the possibility of re-releases of existing content and side projects, such as the Pachislot machine.

You can discuss your feelings further on our forums.

Suikoden IV Initial Equipment

Suikoden V War Battle Guide

Suikoden Tactics Quest Guild Guide

Suikoden Tactics Unites Guide

The Suikoden II Stat Growth Guide was completely redone and several errors were fixed in the process:

Suikoden II Stat Growth

In addition to that, new guides were made for Suikoden IV and V:

Suikoden IV Unite Attacks

Suikoden V Armor Sets

Suikoden V Old Books

Suikoden V Oboro's Investigations

I've done a complete list of all war battle and permanent death quotes in Suikoden I. Most of these quotes are not available within normal gameplay, due to the fact that the majority of characters cannot die, so expect some lines you have never seen before!

Suikoden I War Battle & Death Quotes

And another listing made by Raww Le Klueze for Suikoden V: The locations and prices of all available antiques.

Suikoden V Antiques

Konami released video of a new pachislot machine based on Suikoden IV. Lazlo (Razro), Kika, Sigurd, and Hervey are featured in the trailer.

Source: Siliconera, thanks to Gunloc for posting this in the forums.

Raww Le Klueze made some new guides, based on the information we had on the forums for Suikoden V:

Suikoden V Initial Equipment

Suikoden V Armor List

Suikoden V Miscellaneous Item List

In 1998, 3 years after the original release, the first Suikoden was ported to the Sega Saturn, though not made by the same team it is considered a sort of Director's Cut version of Suikoden due to the game having some additional items and storylines. This guide, made by Raww Le Klueze, will show you all known and verified differences.

Saturn Comparison Guide

Suikoden II contains lots of text passages you will most likely never see, even after several playthroughs. Raww Le Klueze extracted all the lines spoken by optional characters which you bring along at the Tinto Escape Scene and L'Renouille Castle.

Tinto Escape Quotes

After Beast Rune Quotes

Sony is running an event on the North American Playstation Store commemorating the 15th anniversary of Playstation. As part of this, the original Suikoden is on sale for half price, or $3! If you haven't picked this up yet, do so and let them know that the series can still sell. edit: Suikoden is available on the North American Playstation store, not the EU store. Thanks to Raww Le Klueze for pointing this out. Discuss

Yoshitaka Murayama, the creator of the Suikoden series, has stated on his site that he has received an offer from a company. Its speculated to be Konami, and its hard to argue against the notion that he's definitely implying Konami. I've created a topic on our forums to discuss it. Discuss Source: I first read it at NeoGAF, though you can read his actual post in Japanese on his site: Blue Moon Studio

Suikoden Tierkreis is being re-released in Japan, under the Konami The Best collection, a budget line. A limited edition will also be available, with the following items:

• Suikoden Tierkreis (Konami the Best version)
• Original soundtrack (CD + DVD)
• The genuine bible of Genso Suikoden Tierkreis
• Book cover
• 5 character bookmarks - Drama CD

Source: Siliconera

Take a look at all possible Ending Lines for the first three games so far. These are extracted right from the disc:
Suikoden I Endings Guide
Suikoden II Endings Guide
Suikoden III Endings Guide

Old Book content for Suikoden I and II:
Suikoden I Old Books Guide
Suikoden II Old Books Guide

And Aardwolf_Zy made a whole new walkthrough for Suikoden II in the style of his first guide, with checklists ensuring you won't miss a single item. We consider this one as the best walkthrough for this game available:
Suikoden II Walkthrough

• Compare all runes of the suiko universe. Look up how they evolve during all games they participate in, which were changed due to gameplay reasons or story issues, which re-appear at later games and how rare they are in each game when it comes to collecting.
• All runes I can think of are listed, may it be true runes, minor stat modifiers or ones only relevant in the story.
• Runes are sorted in Magic, Command, Effect, Special (story only) and Pieces.
• Articles support the runes in several questions, including relationships to the suiko universe, gameplay tips, rarities etc.
• Official images can be found, that is if any exist.
• The gameplay charts are made from the scratch by testing recently and lists I made myself long ago. Only a small part is taken from info we had already on the site and in the forums. I did a lot of testing with elements and functionality of spells and effects in the games for that. Even some in-game descriptions were flawed (in particular in S2 ...), you'll find the correct information in here.
• Gameplay information is as accurate as possible. There are only a few white spots when it was hard to detect a precise number (like percentages of some effects not given in the game itself).
• Includes all effects, sources and wielders.
• Trying to collect all runes in every game? This will definitely make your life easier!

The character database is now filled with detailed articles for all Tierkreis characters. Thanks to Matt620 for these! Tierkreis Characters

There are many detailed walkthroughs for the Suikoden games on the web. Don't worry about looking for the right one. We now have choosen the best for each game. It is an honor that these diligent authors allow us to present them:

Suikoden I authored by Aardwolf_Zy

Suikoden II (now) authored by Aardwolf_Zy

Suikoden III authored by Cyril

Suikoden IV authored by SOng

Suikoden V authored by Cyril

Suikoden Tactics authored by Cyril

Suikoden Tierkreis authored by Cyril

Over the past few weeks many of you have probably noticed that Suikosource was frequently unreliable, with outages or extreme slowness when connecting to the site. We want to thank everyone for their patience and apologize for the aggravation. We love our community and worked hard to root out the source of the problem. We are happy announce that we have now moved to a new server and so there should be no more connection issues. It is possible that there may be a few remaining links that didn’t make the transfer from one server to the other entirely intact. If you stumble upon more errors please report them somewhere in the Website Forum so that we can repair them. Should the site become inaccessible in the future, keep in mind that many of the admin have made their e-mail addresses public and you are welcome to contact any active admin or the website e-mail admin@suikosource.com for updates.

I set up a full enemy listing for good old Suikoden 2. Enjoy! S2 Bestiary

skoar.com has reported that a new Suikoden title has been registered. Lanceheart provided a link to the Trademark Applications and Registrations Retrieval (TARR) document, which shows "GENSO SUIKODEN". Could it just be a re-release of the first game (for the Wii?), or could it be Suikoden VI?? We won't know until we...! (find out more info)

The votes have been counted, and readers overwhelmingly chose the entry from SuikoX forum member 'ard', which is linked to below. ard is now entitled to receive a couple Tierkreis goodies. Congratulations! ard's entry

I've compiled all the Tierkreis ads that were submitted, and voting is now open. It will be open for one week. Friday, May 29, at midnight central time. You do not need a forum account to vote! Just reply to this post! To prevent vote spamming, but also to not require user registration, I've opened up a special forum on the boards to user posting, even from guests. Also, to keep voting private, all posts are in a moderation queue. If I've set it all up correctly, nobody should see any vote posts except administrators and moderators. Vote for the number of the entry, as identified on this page: http://www.suikosource.com/kornholio/tierkreis_ads/index.html

Konami of America was nice enough to send some of us review copies of Tierkreis, so we could write reviews for you. It took a while for me to get time to finish the game, but I have finally posted my *SPOILER FREE* review of the game. An in-depth, spoiler-filled analysis should arrive in the coming weeks. If you're impatient and just want to know if I liked it or not, my verdict is buy this game. Click the link below for my full review. KoRnholio's Tierkreis Review

A list of all confirmed unite attacks for Suikoden Tierkreis has been added to the gameplay guides. Tierkreis Unite Attacks

Thanks to Ellyos, who extracted all the enemy data out of the game, I added a complete Bestiary to our database. Including levels, all stats, elemental attributes and loot tables. EXP and loot mechanism has also been revealed. S1 Bestiary