kula shakerz 2004-02-14 0 comments
Last month Square Enix USA registered a new trademark with the US Patent and Trademark Office, called Samurai Legend. No additional information regarding the new trademark is available at this point.
kula shakerz 2004-02-08 0 comments
Square Enix will expand to China where they'll start a development studio in Shanghai. The new company will use local develpoers and will mainly focus on creating online titles for PC. Square Enix vice-president Keiji Honda will move to the new Shanghai offices to oversee the planned expansion in the Chinese market.
kula shakerz 2004-02-07 0 comments
Square Enix will release the newest game in their popular mech series Front Mission later this year. Currently the North American release date is set to sometime in June 2004.
kula shakerz 2004-02-07 0 comments
Square Enix has announced that a playable demo of Drakengard is currently available at EB Games and GameStop locations in the US. The demo also includes a preview of the PS2 version of Final Fantasy XI as well as Star Ocean: Till The End of Time. The official Drakengard site has also been updated to include more details regarding the...
kula shakerz 2004-02-07 0 comments
Square Enix has recently launched it's "Square Enix Mobile" site. The site features cell phone wallpapers as well as a cellphone game, Brave Shot. Currently, Square Enix Mobile is only associated with two wireless services, AT&T and Verizon. There are plans for releasing ringtones and a European mobile service. The release of the European mobile service might take time some...
kula shakerz 2004-01-31 0 comments
Square Enix Europe has announced that their latest Game Boy Advance title, Sword of Mana will be released in Europe on March the 18th 2004. The game has already been released in Japan (where it sold over 500,000 copies) and North America.
Ikuzo 2004-01-27 0 comments
According to Square Net, Square Enix has registered the name "The Chains of Promathia" in the US. With this piece of information already spreading across the internet, there hasn't been a confirmation of a registeration in Japan yet. Promathia is a god in the world of Vana'diel opposing the goddess Altana. He is the evil behind the Vana'diel history who...
sifar 2004-01-24 0 comments
Gpara.com has finally obtained images of the second new dress sphere from Final Fantasy X-2 International + Last Mission. In the link below, you will find Rikku, Yuna, and Paine in their Psychier dress sphere. Scroll down a little more to find an image of Yuna in her Omatsurishi dress sphere. There are also a few battle screens of Yuna...
sifar 2004-01-24 0 comments
A camera-shot image of the latest V-Jump magazine revealed that a "Premium Image Disk" of Dragon Quest VIII will be made available with Dragon Quest V when it releases in Japan on March 25, 2004. It still isn't clear what the contents of the disc will be, but one can wager on it being either a new video of the...
sifar 2004-01-24 0 comments
Square Enix has announced that a new location, being referred to as an Alternate Reality, will be tested in Japan this February. The event will take place in a Final Fantasy XI exclusive internet cafe called Real Vana'diel. The cafe allows gamers to play Final Fantasy XI with others using the best PCs to run the game. However, the store...
Ikuzo 2004-01-23 0 comments
Final Fantasy X-2 Ultimania Omega is on the way to the book stores in Japan in 13th February this year! Also an additional information on Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicle Ultimania included. Final Fantasy X-2 Ultimania Omega guide book is due to be released on 13th February this year featuring 688 A5 sized pages with full coverage of the game. It'll...
sifar 2004-01-22 0 comments
Star Ocean 3 (Till the End of Time): Director's Cut was released today in Japan. In this event, Square Enix announced that it will be releasing two albums from the Star Ocean series. The first will be a mini-album dedicated to Star Ocean 3: Director's Cut. It will be released on February 18, 2004 for 2,100 JPY. On March 24,...
sifar 2004-01-22 0 comments
Square Enix has stated that Dragon Quest V, the PlayStation 2 remake, will be released in Japan on March 25, 2004 for 7,800 JPY. The original Dragon Quest V was released in 1992 for the Super FamiCom (Japan). It allowed gamers to have monsters as their allies, and the story spanned over three generations. The title's success in Japan was...
sifar 2004-01-21 0 comments
Square Enix had made a statement in V-Jump magazine that they were looking for actors to do motion capture sequences for certain characters. Those positions were met and apparently, the job has been completed. All the scenes in the movie have been captured and thus all the programming is set. FFWorld.com has made available three images which show some of...
sifar 2004-01-21 0 comments
Square Enix's MMORPG, Final Fantasy XI, has obtained three more awards from IGN.com and GameSpy. From IGN, it won the "Online World of the Year" award and the "Outstanding Achievement in Technology" award. Link >> IGN RPG Vault Awards In addition, FFXI was named "PC MMORPG of the Year" by GameSpy's 2003 Game of the Year Awards. For a list...