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Recently, Square Enix confirmed the release date for Final Fantasy XIII, its upcoming Japanese role playing game blockbuster, for the markets in North America and Europe. The title is set to arrive on March 9, 2010 for those who live outside Japan, while the lucky gamers who live in the island nation will be able to ... |
19 November 2009
14:11 GMT |
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In July, Eidos got swallowed by the Final Fantasy mania-spreader, in hopes that the Japanese developer and publisher would be closer to the European market in this way. But the British company wasn't really devoured as much as it was assimilated, in less of a Bork-like manner and more of a natural symbiosis type... |
17 November 2009
03:48 GMT |
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Square Enix, the Japanese publisher that has recently bought Eidos, has announced that it will be releasing Final Fantasy XIII, the latest Japanese role playing game in the long running franchise, in the West on March 9, 2010, on both the PlayStation 3 from Sony and the Xbox 360 from Microsoft. The game will be outed... |
16 November 2009
05:04 GMT |
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No more games bearing the Eidos tag will ever come out again. The company didn't go bankrupt, not even close, it's just that it has been completely assimilated by Square Enix. “From this day forth you shall be known as Square Enix Europe” the Japanese company said and Eidos has complied and beco... |
11 November 2009
05:29 GMT |
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Japan's game industry found itself with a rusty sword and a torn haori after this year's first fiscal financial report. The coy earnings could be explained by many factors, which include the global crisis we experienced, but the bottom line is the same. Konami and Namco Bandai have all suffered a profit def... |
6 November 2009
07:03 GMT |
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We already know that Final Fantasy XIII is set to be launched in Japan on December 17 in what is sure to be one of the biggest and most lavish releases of a JRPG ever. The game will only come on the PlayStation 3 at that date and Square Enix has not said when the game will arrive on Western markets, where it will be ... |
29 October 2009
14:41 GMT |
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Square Enix has announced that it plans to release an Ultimate Collection version of Final Fantasy XI, which is set to arrive as a digital download on November 12. The package will contain all the content that the publisher has so far provided for the MMO and will allow interested players to get the full experience o... |
27 October 2009
03:58 GMT |
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Installing games on their PlayStation 3 has become a natural thing for gamers, as they've begun to leave the “cartridge” fashion of the old consoles more and more and brush shoulders with the PC tradition. But, it seems, at least one major release will stay true to the console and is designed as an i... |
23 October 2009
03:39 GMT |
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Final Fantasy XIV is getting ready to roll out, but that doesn't mean that Square Enix is quite ready to give up its previous massively multiplayer online role playing game. Final Fantasy XI might still have some life into it so there's no point in letting it go to waste. And if they don't really care ... |
15 October 2009
07:00 GMT |
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It seems that the Japanese domestic videogame market is continuing to shrink, according to the data offered by a report from Enterbrain, the company that publishes the quintessential games magazine Famitsu. Overall, the shrinkage is of about 10.5%, with hardware dropping more precipitously than software. The data cov... |
5 October 2009
03:16 GMT |
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Square Enix is the king of the Japanese role playing games and its biggest franchise worldwide is Final Fantasy, even if Dragon Quest seems to be the series dominating the Land of the Rising Sun. And now, the company has estimated that it will sell more than 6 million copies of the upcoming Final Fantasy XIII, which ... |
30 September 2009
14:11 GMT |
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Fans saw a mixture of Final Fantasy and Bejeweled when they dove inside Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords. And they liked what they saw. The game was developed by Infinite Interactive and published by D3 Publisher and was greatly rewarded by fans and critics. It even won MTV Networks' GameTrailers title of... |
25 September 2009
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After a spectacular series of releases in just 12 months, Swedish game developer GRIN slums over its unborn favorite child. Bionic Commando Rearmed, Wanted: Weapons of Fate, and Terminator Salvation were the titles that the company hurried and released in an attempt to save the company, after an almost disastrous fin... |
22 September 2009
03:39 GMT |
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Initially announced as an Xbox 360 exclusive, Star Ocean: The Last Hope finally received an official release date for the PlayStation3. With this, Star Ocean returns to its most familiar grounds, as all previous installments of the franchise have only wooed Sony's console owners. Right from the start, the game&#... |
17 September 2009
06:33 GMT |
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Square Enix has held its long awaited press conference designed to announce the date on which the PlayStation 3 version of Final Fantasy XIII would arrive on the Japanese market. Thanks to a bit of shady Internet work from the people in charge of the web sites of the publisher, we already know that the long expected ... |
10 September 2009
16:21 GMT |
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Square Enix has revealed the launch date for Final Fantasy XIII through an online add campaign that was initially only intended to serve as a teaser.The publisher is set to put out the Japanese role playing game on December 17 but this date is only for the Japanese market, where the game can be picked up only for the... |
8 September 2009
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The entire gaming industry seems crazed with downloadable content lately. Bethesda has put out no less than 5 decently sized DLC packs for Fallout 3, extending the interest in their post apocalyptic role playing experience by about one year.Other titles almost obligatorily get one DLC pack and some of them have even ... |
3 September 2009
12:49 GMT |
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Square Enix has announced that Order of War, its Western style real time strategy title part of the company's campaign of enlarging its audience, should be released on September 22 for the PC.The game is set in World War II during the year of 1944 and will allow strategy fans to play two single player campaigns,... |
3 September 2009
03:20 GMT |
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Final Fantasy XIII is coming along nicely and Japanese gamers should get a chance to play the new role playing game before Christmas this year on the PlayStation 3, if all goes according to plan. And the creators of the videogame are now talking more about it and about what players will be up against in this fresh sp... |
27 August 2009
16:31 GMT |
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Square Enix is by far one of the most well-known Japanese video game developers and publishers out there, owning franchises like Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest, which have made JRPGs popular all around the world, not only in its native Japan. One of the most popular titles, even though it is quite old, was Final Fant... |
27 August 2009
02:20 GMT |
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Square Enix is one of the most respected Japanese game developers of all time, owning what might be the most successful and well-known franchise coming from the Land of the Rising Sun, Final Fantasy. The series made the JRPG genre famous and took Western markets by storm thanks to a few popular iterations. But with ... |
26 August 2009
02:41 GMT |
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Square Enix has announced that, for the financial quarter that went from April to June, it has seen revenue go down by about 1.2% over last year, reaching the equivalent of 303 million dollars, while the company has registered a loss of 17.22 million dollars, which is pretty bad compared with the 29.68 million profit... |
12 August 2009
04:48 GMT |
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Square Enix seems to never get tired of announcing new projects. The publisher has just released Dragon Quest IX in Japan, with the JRPG proving to be a success with players, as sales sky rocketed.Final Fantasy XIII, the next iteration in the long running franchise, is set to arrive in late 2009 in Japan, exclusively... |
3 August 2009
05:33 GMT |
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Dragon Quest IX was released in Japan this Saturday and the game looks set to be one of the biggest hits ever put out by publisher Square Enix. Initial reports show long queues where the game went on sales while more than 2 million gamers will be coming up to pick up their pre-ordered copies.Dragon Quest IX with the ... |
14 July 2009
02:27 GMT |
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Eidos has put out some poor games in the last few years, especially in the crucial sales period that begins towards the end of summer and goes until December.Kane & Lynch: Dead Men had a good idea but was marred by poor execution, while Tomb Raider: Underworld, which was a re-imagining of Lara Croft, also performed b... |
6 July 2009
02:34 GMT |
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Square Enix is very busy working on the various Final Fantasy titles that are active at the moment. Recently, the publisher and developer announced a new MMO based on the game universe, Final Fantasy XIV, which is supposed to be a PlayStation 3 exclusive.In addition, while also working on Final Fantasy XIII, the next... |
1 July 2009
03:28 GMT |
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Online games are among the most profitable genres of videogames on the market as they can squeeze profit from their loyal fans by using a big number of ways, from subscription fees to unique content or items.That is why when Square Enix revealed a few years ago Final Fantasy XI Online, the first MMO take on a Final F... |
3 June 2009
04:28 GMT |
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Square Enix has released financial information for the fiscal year that ended on March 31 and both sales and profits went down for the Japanese publisher during that period. Overall sales went down by 8% to reach 135.69 billion Yen, which is the equivalent of 1.44 billion dollars.Net income went down by more than 31%... |
26 May 2009
02:44 GMT |
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We've been hearing quite a lot of things about Eidos lately, as its acquisition by Japanese company Square Enix has been the subject of many reports by the gaming press. We've seen how the company will continue to operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of the famous corporation but nothing concrete has been s... |
18 May 2009
02:37 GMT |
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It seems that the decision to bring Final Fantasy XIII for both the Xbox 360 console from Microsoft and for the PlayStation 3 from Sony might have some consequences that will lead veteran fans of the series to move to the PS3 version. One of them is that the Japanese voices, usually included with the Western release ... |
14 May 2009
18:31 GMT |
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It seems that the recent acquirement of Eidos by Square Enix has spurned a newly found desire to start new projects by various studios from the large publisher. Such is the case with Eidos Montreal, which, although it already has Deus Ex 3 in the works, has just announced that Thief 4 was in the early development sta... |
13 May 2009
15:01 GMT |
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We live in a very advanced world where transport and localization for different products can happen in the blink of an eye. This is especially true with video games, which appear on the same day or with a few days between launches all around the world. But one company doesn't seem to follow that trend, namely S... |
11 May 2009
13:11 GMT |
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Square Enix is saying that the Blu-ray demo for FF XIII will not be released in the West but that it is looking into other options for delivering the same content as the Japanese have already seen to all the fans of the Final Fantasy series.Yoshinori Kitase, who is a producer on Final Fantasy XIII, stated that &ldquo... |
7 May 2009
16:41 GMT |
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For any remotely hardcore gamer, when you say Square Enix, he or she immediately thinks of the hugely successful and very long Final Fantasy franchise of J-RPGs (Japanese Role Playing Games). The series has shaped its specific genre in the country and ever since the release of the first game, other developers have be... |
7 May 2009
15:01 GMT |
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Japan has been one of the central points on the world map in terms of technology for the last few decades. This has also been true in terms of video games, as a lot of consoles and titles have appeared from the Land of the Rising Sun and have gone on to gain critical acclaim across the whole wide world. But, lately,... |
5 May 2009
02:19 GMT |
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Now that Eidos is officially and entirely the property of Square Enix, the Japanese publisher might again go out and seek new companies to acquire. Yoichi Wada, who is the president of the company, sees acquisitions as the first steps in a global expansion strategy for Square Enix.Wada has talked to the Financial Tim... |
30 April 2009
02:04 GMT |
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Eidos is one of the most important European video game publishers and the owner of IPs such as Tomb Raider, Hitman or Kane and Lynch, making it, at least in theory, a very successful company. Sadly, practice isn't perfect and, along the years, the UK-based company hasn't been doing so good. Luckily, the Sq... |
29 April 2009
02:44 GMT |
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Square Enix has announced that the acquisition of the United Kingdom publisher Eidos is now complete and that all the assets of the former company are the property of the Japanese publisher. The company has also revealed a set of numbers related to sales of videogames, showing the strength of its various franchises.F... |
27 April 2009
02:52 GMT |
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Sony has just released Final Fantasy VII, from developer Square Enix, on its PlayStation Network service. The game can be downloaded for both the PlayStation 3 console or for the PlayStation Portable handheld and is priced at 1,500 Yen, which is about 15 dollars. At the moment, it cannot be downloaded in North Americ... |
14 April 2009
12:31 GMT |
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Final Fantasy XIII is certainly one of the biggest titles due for release in 2010 and there is already a huge amount of hype surrounding the game, which is set to use the full power of the PlayStation 3 in order to create a groundbreaking game. And it seems that, for the first time, the development team at Square Eni... |
8 April 2009
18:21 GMT |
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If you are one of those MMO players who are worried about getting their account hacked and all their precious online gold and stuff taken away, then it must be nice for you to know that you can secure your account via a device that generates a unique password each time you log into the game. Now, Square Enix is sayin... |
2 April 2009
03:39 GMT |
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Final Fantasy XIII is shaping up to be the game that will make or break the PlayStation 3. Sony is already betting big on the title, even if it is no longer an exclusive, saying that it will show all players what the home console it produces can do. The developer of the title is playing up the same angle.The Japanese... |
1 April 2009
15:51 GMT |
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It's now pretty much official. Eidos has announced that its shareholders, who have seen their company felled by financial problems, have approved the take over by Japanese publisher Square Enix. A little over 85% of those still holding on to Eidos shares have voted yes. They will get a little less than half a do... |
31 March 2009
03:28 GMT |
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Square Enix, the developer and publisher of the Final Fantasy MMO, is saying that it plans to offer the first expansion for the game, which is called A Crystalline Prophecy, on Monday, March 23, for purchase. The actual release date for the new content will not come until April, when Square Enix is set to also offer ... |
17 March 2009
03:47 GMT |
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At the moment, one of the biggest debates in videogame development is this: “What's more important, the storytelling or the gameplay?” There's almost a universal agreement on the fact that the average quality of the stories told in videogames is not up to par with what movies and books offer to ... |
6 March 2009
16:51 GMT |
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Square Enix is getting ever closer to its stated aim of acquiring the publisher Eidos. It seems that the offer of shares of the videogame company is going well and that Square Enix is set to achieve its goal of expanding into the Western games market.Insight Investment Management and Pioneer Investment Management are... |
26 February 2009
02:18 GMT |
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Digital game distribution is becoming something quite common these days, and a major threat to traditional brick-and-mortar game stores, like GameStop, which don't seem quite aware of the fact that gamers prefer to download their games from a single service, right in their own home. Steam is currently the bigge... |
26 February 2009
02:13 GMT |
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Square Enix has announced that the PC version of The Last Remnant is set to arrive in Europe on March 20, complete with total support for the Games for Windows service. This new version of the game is set to bring a host of improvements, including new and much smoother character animations, faster gameplay during bat... |
23 February 2009
03:12 GMT |
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The economy isn't going through the best of times right now, as more and more companies are posting lower profits and even losses and have already employed some pretty drastic layoffs or headcount reductions through their staffs. But a lot of people say that the best deals happen when the prices are low. As suc... |
19 February 2009
02:20 GMT |
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You can count on Japanese publishers to toy with fans of their games long before release dates. Last week, Square Enix pulled the old trick of putting up a countdown on its site, pointing to something big that was set to happen this Wednesday. It was Final Fantasy XIII related, so all the fans of the series were up i... |
29 January 2009
04:25 GMT |
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