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Square Enix’s Dual-Wielding Game Shooting Up a Japanese Arcade

Gunslinger Stratos is an upcoming third-person shooter for Japanese arcades. The Square Enix title features four-on-four online combat that allows players to face off against others across Japan. It is also dual wielding. Players can take their pistols and conjoin them to form new weapons. Check out gameplay in the above video. More details in…

By Brian Ashcraft Published April 16, 2012

Sleeping Dogs Will Wake Up America On August 14

Square Enix’s open-world crime game will hit U.S. shores this summer, the publisher said today. Best Buy, Amazon, and GameStop will each have its own set of pre-order bonuses. [Sleeping Dogs]

By Jason Schreier Published April 13, 2012

Square Enix Has Their Own Radio Channel

Square Enix fans rejoice: the publisher has opened up a streaming radio channel that plays music from many of their games for free. There aren’t a huge number of games yet, but hey, Xenogears is on here, which should make many people happy, judging by the zealous comments I regularly hear about that game’s soundtrack.…

By Kirk Hamilton Published April 12, 2012

Hitman: Absolution Joins the List of Games Screwing You Over With Pre-order Weapons

Square Enix today announced the fancy version of Agent 47’s continuing stealth saga Hitman: Absolution, called the Professional Edition. The Professional Edition and standard edition are both now available for pre-order at multiple outlets, but with a small catch. Like so many other publishers and game releases before it, Square Enix is offering different pre-order…

By Kate Cox Published April 11, 2012

Quantum Conundrum Could Be a Wonderful Spiritual Successor to Portal

Everything’s in first-person. Your silent hero is equipped with a high-tech gadget that can manipulate chunks of the environment. You progress through a series of rooms, each stuffed to the brim with quirky crate-and-button-based puzzles that need solving. And an omniscient voice is talking to you the whole time. Stop me if you’ve heard this…

By Jason Schreier Published April 11, 2012

Final Fantasy XIII-2 DLC Cracks Joke About Final Fantasy XIII-2 DLC

Here’s Gilgamesh, the newest piece of downloadable content for Square Enix’s Final Fantasy XIII-2 You might recognize Gilgamesh from his appearances in Final Fantasy V and Final Fantasy VIII, among other games in the longrunning RPG series. You might also recognize his ridiculous, fourth-wall-breaking sense of humor. Gilgamesh is out now for 320 Microsoft Points…

By Jason Schreier Published April 10, 2012

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Dressing Final Fantasy as Assassin’s Creed Still Looks Underwhelming

Yes, yes. Japanes role-playing game Final Fantasy XIII-2 is getting downloadable costumes that include Mass Effect and Assassin’s Creed outfits. If you didn’t find the screenshots thrilling, here is the AC trailer…you might find thrilling. I’ve said it once, and I’ll say it again: I really don’t understand the point of these cross game costume…

By Brian Ashcraft Published April 10, 2012

Deus Ex Arrives on Mac Later This Month

On April 26, Square Enix will release Deus Ex: Human Revolution: Ultimate Edition on the Mac, which packs the original game, its DLC, an art book and making-of documentary all in the one box.

By Luke Plunkett Published April 4, 2012

Who Better Than Star Trek‘s Q to Star in Quantum Conundrum?

If anyone is qualified to create an Interdimensional Shift Glove it’s the man that flexed his interdimensional muscles s dozen times over the course of three different television series. John “Q” de Lancie steps into the disembodied voice of Professor Fitz Quadwrangle in Airtight Games’ Quantum Conundrum Now here’s a man that’s perfectly happy being…

By Mike Fahey Published April 4, 2012

Kotaku East

Final Fantasy Characters Are Now Modeling Italian Clothes

Final Fantasy characters sure are stylish. Maybe it’s their razor thin body types. Or the hair. But they look like models. And now, they don’t only look like them, they are. The latest issue of Japanese men’s fashion mag Arena Homme Plus features Final Fantasy XIII-2 characters modeling Prada’s summer collection. These are clothes for…

By Brian Ashcraft Published April 4, 2012

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Kingdom Hearts Tries Its Hand at Augmented Reality Games, Fails Miserably

In the Kingdom Hearts series, the player character often teams up with two other party members as you explore the game’s various Disney worlds. In Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance however, players use friendly versions the game’s monsters—called “Dream Eaters”—as party members instead of the usual Disney characters. Besides leveling-up through battle, your Dream…

By Richard Eisenbeis Published April 3, 2012

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Final Fantasy Versus XIII Finally Emerges. On the 3DS. As Music Game DLC.

Where the hell is Final Fantasy Versus XIII? Who knows. Oddly, a song from the unreleased game is launching as paid DLC for Nintendo 3DS game Theatrhythm: Final Fantasy on April 4. Hopefully, this means that Square Enix will be talking more about Final Fantasy Versus XIII in the near future—instead of, you know, simply…

By Brian Ashcraft Published April 2, 2012

Figure-Skater Uses Chrono Trigger Music, Sadly Does Not Win

Canadian figure skater Kevin Reynolds competed at the Four Continents Championships in Colorado early last month. He only finished eighth, but in our eyes, he was the real winner for his choice of music. Forgoing the obvious choices of either classical or pop, Reynolds skated along to a medley of music from classic RPG Chrono…

By Luke Plunkett Published April 2, 2012

April Fools! All of These Announcements Are Fake—but Which Ones are Funny? [Updated AGAIN]

Alright, it may be a Sunday, but it’s still April Fools’ Day, a very special day in video gaming, and many of its companies, studios and merchants are pulling hoaxes and stunts, and making gag announcements. So let’s round up as many as we can here! MetaMeta Critic (Paradox Interactive) The developer of of PC…

By Owen Good Published April 1, 2012

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The Cutest Little Final Fantasy Characters

The characters of Theatrhythm Final Fantasy—both ally and enemy—come from across all thirteen Final Fantasies. Yet instead of mixing and matching art styles, Square Enix Japanese graphic designer Monster Octopus to re-create all these Final Fantasy characters in their own cute, doll-like style. This is far from the only time Monster Octopus’ art style has…

By Richard Eisenbeis Published March 30, 2012

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Is Theatrhythm a Miserable Medley or a Musical Masterpiece?

The Final Fantasy series as a whole has the best original soundtrack in gaming. While many series have a standout song or two, Final Fantasy has thirteen games—and many spin-off titles—brimming with instantly recognizable tunes. Whether written by Nobuo Uematsu, Masashi Hamauzu, or other composers, these memorable scores have captured the souls of gamers for…

By Richard Eisenbeis Published March 30, 2012

Let Sleeping Dogs Drive and This is What Happens

I told you not to bother them. Now they’re doing stunts, participating in illegal street races, and jumping from car-to-car with larcenous intent. BAD DOGS. The game formerly known as True Crime: Hong Kong features a massive open world filled with things that explode, shatter, or die horribly when hit with sufficient force. Naturally vehicles…

By Mike Fahey Published March 29, 2012

Watch Kingdom Hearts 3D‘s Intro Projected On The Side Of A Building

Earlier this month to celebrate the Kingdom Hearts 10th Anniversary, Square Enix held the Kingdom Hearts Premier Event in southern Tokyo. Yesterday, to celebrate the release of Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance, they put footage of the event up on the official Kingdom Hearts 3D website. The best video shows the game’s intro movie as…

By Richard Eisenbeis Published March 29, 2012

Kingdom Hearts 3DS’ Opening Movie Mixes Things Up

New screens from the opening movie for Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance show off the game’s dedication to stirring the series’ already convoluted storyline into one large frothy jumble tasting faintly of salt water ice cream. I’ve been wondering which of the two Hikaru Utada opening themes they’d be using to kick off this…

By Mike Fahey Published March 29, 2012

Turn-Based Role-Playing Fans Find a Safe Haven in Chaos Rings II

Final Fantasy fans seeking to relive the glory days of the series when enemies were on one side of the screen and waited their turn have a new champion on the iPhone in Square Enix’s Chaos Rings II. As with Chaos Rings and Chaos Rings Omega before it, Chaos Rings II is a turn-based role-playing…

By Mike Fahey Published March 27, 2012