As I so accurately predicted a few months ago, Ni No Kuni will be coming early next year. Namco Bandai confirmed the game will ship in both North America and Europe simultaneously in Q1 2013.
Namco Bandai today confirmed a PC port of the game. The publisher said the online petition, which has almost 100,000 signatures, played a major part in the decision to port the game.
Long-time Halo composer Marty 'O'Donnell is not working on Halo 4. He'll be working with Bungie on whatever project they're developing. Microsoft instead has turned to Neil Davidge to score the new game's soundtrack.