January:
Lufia II trademark status changed to "Registered"
Ryusenkei Encounter released (Japanese only game co-developed by Neverland)
Rune Factory 4 cancelled for Europe
February:
Marvelous announces Forbidden Magna, a game developed by Rune Factory staff. The director for the game is Masahide Miyata who also worked on the Lufia games as director/scenario
Natsume comments on Neverland Company's bankruptcy, Lufia and Rune Factory
Lufia Kickstarter appears (and is canceled the next day)
Lufia Genesis Demo ROM shows up
Apparently Taito wanted the sega version done in a really short time frame. The port was handled by Teknocrest.
http://opa-ages.com/forums/topic/74650-prototype-of-a-playstation-game-i-worked-on-in-1994/page-2#entry1662859
http://gdri.smspower.org/wiki/index.php/Teknocrest
(There isn't much to do in the Lufia Genesis demo and the animation is clunky)
April
Chaos Seed English translation patch released
May
Lufia TLR rated, hints at VC release (it was recently confirmed to appear on the NA 3DS e-shop by Natsume!)
Yasunori Shiono, the main composer of the Lufia games, returns to composing music and releases a video with sample music.