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Square Enix's David Hoffman has said that the upcoming announcement of the highly secretive "Project X" will make "the media do a double take". Hoffman has been teasing the game via his Twitter page for a while now, and whilst an E3 showing is likely, he says the PR announcement is...

Nintendo has opened up some web pages of its own for Square Enix's new Kumanage WiiWare games. As detailed earlier this week, unless Square Enix has gone completely mad and are planning a whole lineup of games about bears, the two Kumanage games are just Japanese versions of games that were...

Miwa Shoda joined Squaresoft, now Square Enix, in 1995 and went on to write Japanese Legend of Mana and Final Fantasy XII. Those are big games with big stories — something that they apparently do not need. "I've worked all over the place and gained a great deal of valuable experience from...

A Final Fantasy writer has boldly proclaimed that the release of Apple’s iPad heralds the end of Nintendo’s dominance of portable gaming, whilst even Square Enix’s CEO seems to have experienced some sort of iPad imparted epiphany… Game developer/writer Masato Kato, heavily involved with such...

Square Enix plans on getting some announcements out of the way before the video game circus kicks off in two weeks. “Looks like there will be some announcements about DLG before E3. Can’t wait,” the SquareEnixDLG account tweeted. Interestingly, Famitsu has two WiiWare games from Square Enix...

I'm sure you've heard the earlier news concerning Kingdom Hearts Director Tetsuya Nomura being at E3 this year. While this is mildly large news in of itself, we now have some more information trickling in detailing just what he may be at E3 for. Shinji Hashimoto, a producer of several...

Looks like Square Enix is readying the announcement of their “shocking” most likely western RPG set to “blow your socks off”. A new tweet from the firm’s David Hoffman teases the announcement “very soon”, possibly “next week”. “Looks like we will be announcing Project X very soon,” Hoffman...

Our latest search of the US Patent and Trademark Office has turned up a new trademark filing by Square Enix on May 21 for ‘Auctions of Atlantis‘. Within the filing there is the usual mention of “computer game software; video game software,” but what’s particularly interesting is the...

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within may have been a flop, but Advent Children was a cash cow. What does Square Enix think about another CG film? Shinji Hashimoto, Senior Vice President, is for another flick. Korean site Gameshot asked, “are you thinking about making a new movie after the...

Final Fantasy XIII has launched in Korea. Hooray. Now more of the world can play Square Enix’s latest entry in the franchise. However, that’s not important. What is important is that Square Enix made a brief mention of Final Fantasy Versus XIII during an interview at the game’s launch party...

Square Enix re-launched Final Fantasy XIII in Hong Kong and South Korea, which means more awkward tie-ins. In Hong Kong, karaoke box company Neway has Final Fantasy XIII themed rooms. Director Motomu Toriyama and Producer Yoshinori Kitase stopped by to commemorate the promotion. From wall to...

Apple's iPad tablet device at long last saw domestic release today (5/28). Square Enix celebrated with a few major game announcements. Launching with the device today were an iPad version of the Final Fantasy XIII Larger-than-Life Gallery app and the all new Chocoboc Panic. Both were released...

Square Enix typically charges $39.99 for their Nintendo DS fantasy epics. Chrono Trigger, The World Ends With You, and Final Fantasy IV, also developed by Matrix Software, launched at that price in North America. Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light won’t. When the storybook style RPG comes...

Square Enix’s Dave Hoffman has been dropping a lot of hints lately about Project X. The unaccounted title was previously revealed to be a RPG and is said to be shocking. Dave Hoffman gave another small hint today on his Twitter. When someone asked if the RPG is being developed in Japan or in...

The Black Market Boom Pack for Just Cause 2 has been released on Steam, PSN, and XBL. The DLC contains three prototype weapons: Quad Rocket Launcher: half shotgun, half rocket launcher, all carnage Cluster Bomb Launcher: the natural successor to the grenade launcher Air Propulsion Gun: a...

Square Enix unveiled its "history changing game" right on schedule today. As many expected given the tie-up with Yahoo, the new game, Sengoku Ixa, is a free browser game. Developed by Browser Sengoku developer One-Up, Sengoku Ixa is a historical strategy game set in Japan's Sengoku Era. You...

I've been trying for the longest time to figure out what English to use for that DS feature that the Japanese refer to as "surechigai." I think I'll go with what the folks at Guinness (and probably Square Enix) have decided on: Chance Encounter. The reason Guinness has concerned itself with...

Square Enix has released new screens and video of Kane and Lynch 2’s Undercover Mode. The IO Interactive actioner is looking in good shape so far, with the latest media showing the game’s worth as a must-buy this summer. Get the gameplay footage courtesy of D’Toid, who also have new shots as...

Nintendo’s announced it’s to release Dragon Quest IX in Europe on July 23. The DS RPG is being published in the west by the firm, with developer Square Enix stepping aside from publishing duties, as announced back in February. Square announced yesterday the game had sold 4.26 million...

Square Enix is teasing a game with an unlikely partner. Web portal Yahoo! and the video game publisher have an announcement set for May 21. If that wasn’t surprising enough, the teaser site says it will change Japanese history. Maybe they mean literally? A time traveling Sengoku period game...