kula shakerz 2007-05-28 0 comments
It was recently announced that Akitoshi Kawazu, best known for his work with the SaGa series will resign from Square Enix's board of directors as of June 23, 2007. He recently oversaw the completion of Final Fantasy XII as executive producer but will now focus exclusively on game development again. His current projects include the recently announced The Last Remnant,...
kula shakerz 2007-04-22 0 comments
Square Enix is going release a new series of soundtracks containing compilations of battle themes from their various games. The Square Enix Battle Track Vol. 1: Square 1987 - 1996 album will include 25 tracks from Nintendo, Super Nintendo and GameBoy games composed by Nobuo Uematsu, Kenji Itou, Ryuuji Sasai, Rudra no Himitsu, Hiroki Kikuta, Youko Shimomura, Yasunori Mitsuda, Noriko...
kula shakerz 2007-04-17 0 comments
Square Enix announced yesterday the appointment of Daishiro Okada, previously president and chief operating officer, to his new role as vice chairman of Square Enix, Inc. Replacing him in the role of president is John Yamamoto, currently head of Square Enix Ltd., the European subsidiary of Square Enix Co., Ltd. Yamamoto will be assuming the role of chief executive officer...
Brendan 2007-04-03 0 comments
In an interview with Gemaga and Dengeki, Tetsuya Nomura issued a few precious details about the company’s newest venture with Disney. Stressing that this new project was a series independent of Kingdom Hearts, Nomura commented that the characters from Birth by Sleep, the secret ending to Final Mix, "…are people who have some relation to the new series. However the...
kula shakerz 2007-03-26 2 comments
Square Enix have announced that they will unveil a new and previously unannounced Final Fantasy title during the upcoming Square Enix Party which will take place the 12th and 13th May in halls 9, 10, and 11 of Chiba prefecture's Makuhari Messe convention center outside Tokyo. Could this be the Final Fantasy VII remake we have been dreaming about for...
Brendan 2007-02-28 0 comments
Square Enix will hold a spring gaming pavilion this year on May 12 and 13, hot on the heels of the Japanese launch of Final Fantasy Tactics: The Lion War. Square Enix initially held the conference, which attracted over 45,000 visitors in total, at Makuhari Messe in Japan back in Japan 2005. For those of you unfamiliar with the location,...
kula shakerz 2007-01-25 1 comment
Square Enix announced today that they have made a deal with Epic Games and purchased a license for the Unreal Engine 3. For those of you who don't know Epic Games, they are the creators of the Unreal series (that the graphics engine got named after) and of the recent Gears of War for the Xbox 360. There are already...
Brendan 2007-01-19 0 comments
Square Enix will be presenting the opening speech to the Serious Games Summit, the E3 of real-world practical training games. Serious games are games that are “generally held to be games used for training, advertising, simulation, or education that are designed to run on personal computers (such as a PC running Microsoft Windows or Linux) or video game consoles (such...
Brendan 2007-01-19 0 comments
RPGamer is reporting that Square Enix and Microsoft have decided that the next installment of the Ogre Battle franchise, from the creative team behind Final Fantasy XII and Tactics, will go to the Xbox 360. Unlike the Final Fantasy series, the Ogre Battle games have made their ways around the consoles from the "Playstation, Nintendo 64, and Game Boy Advance"...
Brendan 2007-01-15 0 comments
In an interesting tidbit of news, Final Fantasy turns twenty this year, and on December 18! Square, never the ones to pass up a party, have announced a special ... uhm ... announcement around that time to celebrate! Playable form of Final Fantasy XIII? Another Final Fantasy VII spin-off? Square Enix appointing presidential candidates in every major country across the...
Brendan 2007-01-10 0 comments
European media study group The Independent in London concluded a report that listed the most successful, best-selling franchises of all time. Six games were made in the United States, eleven in Japan, with the rest sprinkled about the globe. Our very own beloved Final Fantasy series came in at number three with an estimated 68 million units worldwide. Appropriately, Nintendo’s...
Brendan 2006-12-23 0 comments
Square's got themselves a website with all the Final Fantasies--past and present--conveniently located in one blob of information. The icons all link to the respective sites; be sure to check out the Revenant Wings website, which has made the TGS 2006 trailer public at last. Enjoy it here!
Brendan 2006-12-19 0 comments
Square Enix confirmed today that they will not be taking advantage of the Nintendo DS’s Wi-Fi technical capabilities. This action was announced in the decision to drop the function from its upcoming Front Mission DS port. Also, Square Enix has reportedly scrapped the multiplayer mode from the recently announced and still undated Seiken Densetsu: Heroes of Mana. Square Enix cited...
kula shakerz 2006-11-27 0 comments
Square Enix revealed its line-up for next month's JUMP Festa 2007 on their official website. Among the booth's highlights will be new trailers of the Final Fantasy XIII games as well as playable versions of Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII (finally!) and Dragon Quest Swords. See below for the complete list of titles they are bringing to JUMP Festa. This...
Brendan 2006-11-21 0 comments
On Friday, Square Enix posted its sales figures for the end of the recent fiscal quarter, and the results were a bag of mixed goodies. Topping out the list for Japanese territories is the mega-hit NDS revamp Final Fantasy III, with an estimated total of 840,000 units. In Europe, Kingdom Hearts II was off to an impressive start with 540,000...
Brendan 2006-11-16 0 comments
Square announced today that they're bumping up their numbers for the six-month fiscal period that terminated on September 30, 2006. They expect their total earnings to tally up at about $27.9 million USD. The company attributes this primarily to the unexpected success of Advent Children, and some complicated tax-policy shift in the accounting department. Go figure. Square Enix can just...
Brendan 2006-10-15 0 comments
In a story that's entirely unrelated to anything SE-ish, Weekly Famitsu--the magazine that awarded Final Fantasy XII a perfect 40/40--recently did a poll of their readers to see who would even be buying a next generation console. "Which next-generation console do you wish to play the most?" Readers answered with: 47.9% - None 35.6% - PlayStation 3 13.6% - Wii...
kula shakerz 2006-10-03 0 comments
Famitsu has recently released information regarding the new Itadaki Street game for the Nintendo DS. They reported that Final Fantasy characters will not be appearing like they did in the previous version of the game (FF & DQ in Itadaki Street Special). Itadaki Street is a Square-Enix monopoly type game that involves moving around on a 3D board, using characters...
Brendan 2006-10-01 0 comments
So it's been a big week to say the least. With the closing of the Tokyo Game Show last week, Square Enix wooed the hearts of millions with the announcement of new games like Re:Chain of Memories (PS2), Kingdom Hearts 2: Final Mix (PS2), Final Fantasy VI (GBA), Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings (NDS), It's A Wonderful World (NDS), and...
Brendan 2006-09-23 0 comments
Hey, it just never ends for those Japanese folk in Tokyo, does it? Well, along with the flood of other information accompanying Crisis Core, Versus XIII, Revenant Wings, Agito XIII and It's A Wonderful World, Square Enix has announced a few other projects at their theater at the Tokyo Game Show. Chief among them, which I entire overlooked this morning,...