It seems somewhat unfair some of the great packages and deals Japanese gamers get. Sony and Nintendo put out consoles and handhelds in a wide palette of colors that rarely make their way to the rest of the world. Popular games get bundles that include console, game and various other sundries at a lower price [...]

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Unveiling plans to further milk the Final Fantasy series, Square Enix has announced that three new expansion for Final Fantasy XI are in the works for release exclusively via digital distribution.
The expansions are titled as follows: A Crystalline Prophecy - Ode of Life Bestowing, A Moogle Kupo d’Etat  Evil in Small Doses, and A Shantotto [...]

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Speaking to Gamesindustry, Square Enix US president John Yamamoto revealed that the company’s new Los Angeles studio will start by working on downloadable games.
“We started the in-house development team a couple of months ago and we’re starting with downloadable content because the team is still small,” he said. “All formats–Xbox Live, WiiWare, PlayStation Network–are all [...]

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Japanese developer Square Enix has revealed that it is working on an action game that is being developed at a studio in Los Angeles.
“Square Enix is building a studio from the ground up. We are making an action-oriented original IP game here in sunny Los Angeles,” reads the company’s careers page.
The publisher is hiring programmers, [...]

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Square Enix today announced that Kingdom Hearts Re:Chain of Memories, the Disney RPG originally released on GBA, will see an updated release for the PS2.
Due out December 2, the game is based off the GBA original which was developed by Jupiter. It was a card-based hack-and-slash title that bridged the gap between the first two [...]

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Denying fans of a ridiculous (yet possible) Final Fantasy Xtreme Beach Volleyball game, Tecmo today rejected the buyout offer from Square Enix, instead opting to push ahead with merger talks with Koei.
A Tecmo statement translated by Kotaku reads that both Koei and Tecmo “have excellent financial positions, strengths and the ability to take advantage [...]

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Japanese developer Square Enix announced that it has made a “friendly” offer to acquire a controlling stake in Tecmo, the studio behind Ninja Gaiden and Dead or Alive.
Tecmo has until September 4 to respond to the offer, which will see Square purchase a controlling stake in the company at a 30% premium over current [...]

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While Microsoft may have shocked gamers with their Final Fantasy XIII news, Asians won’t be able to get the game on their Xbox 360s, until and unless they import the title, if what game director and writer Motomu Toriyama and Tetsuya Nomura are saying is true.
According to the latest issue of Dengeki PlayStation, Nomura [...]

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Square Enix has officially announced that the DS edition of the SNES RPG classic Chrono Trigger will be released on November 28.
The DS version of the game will feature new dungeons built specifically for the platform. It will also include an Arena mode, which will “add exciting new dimensions” to the game, as per [...]

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While no release date is known for Final Fantasy XIII, Square Enix revealed at its invite-only event last weekend that the game will hit Japan in 2009. It is not known whether both the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions will be released simultaneously or not since work on the latter version is yet to [...]

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 Square Enix has announced that a playable demo of Final Fantasy XIII will arrive with the Blu-ray edition of the Advent Children CGI film in March 2009. While this is applicable only to Japan, it can be noted that both Japan and North America share the same region coding for Blu-ray discs, meaning the movie [...]

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