Square Enix

Former Square Honcho Calls Square Enix a “Complete Failure” with “No Vision”

With Square Enix posting losses in its latest earnings, former Square Co. boss Hisashi Suzuki thought this would be good a time as any to kick the company while it is down. Via Twitter, Suzuki didn’t hold back, claiming that the total value of publicly traded stock is not higher than it was before Square…

Mass Effect Toy Turns Commander Shepard Into Sparkly Burns Victim

Aaarrgghhhh my eyes These Play Arts Mass Effect figures looked so good when we first saw them! And while all the production copies of other Play Arts figures I’ve looked at here on Kotaku previously have been just fine, something’s gone very wrong with Commander Shepard, who between initial prototyping and being boxed for sale…

Making An Open-Ended Game For A Linear Audience

The Hitman series has long been about choice-bald-headed 47 was set loose inside a semi-sandbox with a target or two, and players could come up with any of a number of ways to do away with them. That style of play is becoming increasingly uncommon, at least in mainstream AAA console games, at least in…

This New Bravely Default Sure Has Some Crappy Art

It really, really does. Shame because so much of the art for the 3DS game is stunning. This newly announced Bravely Default isn’t for the 3DS, however. It’s a free-to-play browser game called Bravely Default: Praying Brage The game’s main illustrator is Square Enix’s Akihiro Yoshida, who worked on Bravely Default. Yoshida’s work is fantastic.…

Create and Share Your Own 3D Browser-Based Games with Gameglobe

Gameglobe is a place where everyday folks like you and me can play, create and share unique 3D games (like that one up top) with people all over the world. Square Enix and Bigpoint have just launched the site’s open beta, so it’s game on for everybody. Just head over to Gameglobe.com, sign up for…

These Guys Really Want Bravely Default To Come To The West

I am all for the campaign to keep talking about the wonderfully-titled role-playing game Bravely Default: Flying Fairy until Square Enix decides to localize it outside of Japan. It looks fantastic, by all reports it’s a great game, and people are buying it! Win-win. So it’s good to see fans organizing to start their own…

Classic Super Nintendo RPG Chrono Trigger is now available for Android devices

A Whole Bunch Of Square Enix Games Are On Sale This Weekend

Sleeping Dogs! Kingdom Hearts! Dead Island! Lots of neat Square Enix games are on sale this weekend, so head over there if you think something will strike your fancy. Particularly hilarious: the PC remake of Final Fantasy VII is on sale for $6.99. Instead of $11.99. Final Fantasy VII!

Square Enix is Spying on You (But It’s To Make Better Games)

When you blindly click “agree” on Square Enix’s online terms & conditions, you probably didn’t notice that you’re saying you agree to allow the publisher to record the way you play a game. While this sounds nefarious, it’s actually part of an operation run from an office in London—and detailed in this MCV report—whose job…

Square Enix’s New Free-to-Play iOS Game is an Evil Revelation

Available today on the iTunes App Store, Square Enix’s free-to-play Wizardlings is a casual tap adventure in which a pair of tiny wizards reveal a magical fantasy world, one block at a time. It’s cute, colorful and incredibly evil. Taking control of one of two wizards—boy or girl—the player moves cross grid-based levels, tapping on…

Square Enix is aiming for next February to beta test the Wii U version of Dragon Quest X.

Final Fantasy XIV Has Bust Size, But I Don’t See Jock Size

As part of Final Fantasy XIV’s reboot, the game is getting a reworked character creator. It allows you to customize your character’s appearance, such as height, eyebrows, and even jaw and tail length. This recent batch of screenshots (via Siliconera) shows how you can customize your character’s bust size: from Very Small to Very Large.…

Tomb Raider’s Box Art Resists The Obvious Temptation

We normally only show an upcoming game’s cover if one of us takes a liking to it. So, yeah, I quite like Tomb Raider’s box art! Which doesn’t surprise me, seeing as I’m a fan of the game’s art direction in general (“Uncharted in bad weather”), but with a prominent female lead there was still…

First Look at the Newest World Ends with You. It’s a Social Game.

The World Ends with You is getting a new game for smartphones. It’s a social game called The World Ends with You: Live Remix, and it features songs from the previous game. According to Famitsu, the game uses touch controls, and it’s described as “an easy way” for players to enjoy The World Ends with…

Sleeping Dogs Is About To Get A Little Crazier

Just in time for Halloween, Sleeping Dogs developer United Front Games will be releasing add-on content for the amazing hands-on, kung fu combat, open world game. And there will be zombies. And vampires. Sort of. It’s called Nightmare in North Point, and instead of slapping rival Triad members in the face with a fish, you…

Square Enix Finds Redemption for Demons’ Score with Symphonica

I was terribly disappointed with the way Square Enix priced iNiS’s rhythm game, Demons’ Score. So disappointed that when I heard the company had released another iNiS rhythm game on iOS I almost didn’t bother. Between the free initial download and the stirring sounds of Dvorak’s New World Symphony my tenuous convictions crumbled, and I…

Hitman: Absolution Lets You Dress Up in Goofy Outfits, Too

Here’s a look at some of the “deadly disguises” that Hitman: Absolution. You know, like a large chicken. And a scarecrow. And a judge. Lethal!

Square Enix just launched a teaser site for an upcoming collaboration with Hangame.

Bravely Default Is Killing It In Japan. Hey Square Enix, Time To Bring It Here.

People in Japan like Bravely Default. They really like Bravely Default According to new numbers from Japanese sales tracker Media Create (as reported by Siliconera), Square Enix’s latest 3DS RPG moved 141,529 copies during its first week on the marketplace. There’s even talk of a sequel As Siliconera points out, Bravely Default beat out its…

The Artist Behind Final Fantasy Just Wants To Draw Cute Girls

While speaking with Yoshitaka Amano, the legendary designer who created art for almost every game in the Final Fantasy series, I asked him about his dream project. Would he want to work on a direct sequel to Final Fantasy VI? Maybe a Dragon Quest game? Some sort of crazy Chrono Trigger spinoff? “Something with cute…