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Square Enix Seems Interested In 3D (What About You?)
3D. 3D. 3D. Final Fantasy XIV? Square Enix has a tech demo for it in 3D. At the recent E3 gaming expo in Los Angeles, the Japanese based game company was showing off the PC version of the game running in 3D on three monitors. The 3D was powered by NVIDIA’s new GeForce 3D. I’m…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 28, 2010 -
Kingdom Hearts Designer Talks Picking and Choosing
Last year, it was revealed that Square Enix designer Tetsuya Nomura originally conceived with chainsaws. “There things I wanted to do [with Kingdom Hearts]”, Nomura recently told Kotaku, “but things that were not allowed.” Maybe like chainsaws? Obviously, you can’t have Mickey Mouse wield a chainsaw. (Well, I guess you could. And I guess it…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 25, 2010 -
Final Fantasy XIV On 360 Doesn’t Look Likely
Final Fantasy XIV is definitely coming to the PS3 and PC, but Square Enix has previously been coy on an Xbox 360 version. There’s a reason for that. While a publisher will rarely, if ever say that a game is definitely not coming to another platform, it doesn’t look like Final Fantasy XIV will ever…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 25, 2010 -
First Final Fantasy Versus XIII Gameplay Images
The first in-game Final Fantasy Versus XIII cutscene footage was shown at the 2008 Tokyo Game Show. It’s now 2010. Let’s see the first gameplay images. The latest issue of Japanese game magazine Famitsu has details about the PS3 title’s gameplay. While the title is set in the same universe as Final Fantasy XIII, Final…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 24, 2010 -
All Square Enix Games To Include Social, Multiplayer Gaming
Square Enix has been looking at the future, and that future is either stuff from China that’s cheap and is played online, or on Facebook. Expect all future Square Enix games to incorporate at least some of those aspects. In an interview with Forbes, Square Enix boss Yoichi “Imperial Hot” Wada says that from here…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 24, 2010 -
Kane & Lynch 2 Impressions: Take Cover
The first Kane & Lynch was much like its antihero protagonists – someone whose potential was washed out by dysfunctional and self-destructive traits. IO Interactive’s sent the series to rehab and vows it’s gotten clean with Kane & Lynch 2. To recap: Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days puts the focus on Lynch, who’s emigrated…
By Owen Good Published June 20, 2010 -
Final Fantasy XIV, The E3 Trailer
Square Enix, don’t you ever change. Don’t change your trailers, either. You could blindfold me, punch me in the ear then hold me underwater and I’d still know this was Final Fantasy XIV, just from the soundtrack. Click to view
By Luke Plunkett Published June 17, 2010 -
The Kingdom Hearts Keyblade Takes Disneyland
Over at Disneyland forum MiceChat, member AcmePunched created a keyblade weapon from Square Enix’s Disney franchise Kingdom Hearts. That’s no big deal. What she did, however, is. AcmePunched took the Keyblade to Disneyland and had an array of characters pose with it until… “A security guard came up to me and asked about the key,”…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 17, 2010 -
How Parasite Eve Went From Cell Phones To the PSP
Parasite Eve: The Third Birthday did not start its life out as a PSP title. Oh, no. It began its existence as a Japanese cell phone game. During the late 1990s, Parasite Eve was adapted from a Japanese horror novel into a PlayStation title. A sequel followed in 2000. Then radio silence until 2007 when…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 17, 2010 -
How Long Should We Expect To Play Final Fantasy XIV?
Let’s see, Final Fantasy XI came out in Japan in spring 2002. It’s been over 8 years! But how long did Square Enix intend to support the game? Five years. Since the title is popular, Square Enix continued to support it as Final Fantasy XI entered its sixth, seventh and eighth year. With the upcoming…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 17, 2010 -
Resident Evil Creator: JRPGs Were Never Popular In The West
In the West, new role-playing games like Mass Effect (and its sequel) have been picking up steam. There has been concern that the popularity of Japanese role-playing games are on the slide in the West. It’s not that simple, says Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami. “I think it is because Japanese RPGs were really never…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 10, 2010 -
Kingdom Hearts Re:Coded Debuts In America Next Week
The Nintendo DS re-make of a Japanese Kingdom Hearts cell-phone game will be at video game mega-show E3 next week. Cool, but is that the Kingdom Hearts E3 mystery game? This is what we know: Kingdom Hearts Re:Coded is not Kingdom Hearts 3. No way. It’s one of two Kingdom Hearts games Square Enix confirmed…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 9, 2010 -
Dragon Quest IX In Convenient Trailer Form
We’re a month away from Nintendo’s release of Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Sky, the DS exclusive ninth installment of the beloved RPG series. Check out this trailer to see how it measures up to its console cousins. Despite being a portable title, Dragon Quest IX is perhaps the most ambitious Dragon Quest…
By Mike Fahey Published June 9, 2010 -
What Is Your Favorite Square Enix Series?
A recent pol asked 3,000 people that same question in Japan. But before we get to that, let me ask you this: What’s your favorite Square Enix franchise? Here are the results to said poll: 10. Valkyrie Profile series 2.7 percent 9. Front Mission series 2.8 percent 8. Kingdom Hearts series 2.9 percent 7. Itadaki…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 9, 2010 -
Obsidian Takes On Dungeon Siege 3
Obsidian Entertainment takes on yet another action role-playing game sequel in Dungeon Siege 3, with series creator Chris Taylor on board as an advisor, helping oversee the franchise’s console debut. Obsidian Entertainment is the go-to development studio for big-name role-playing game sequels. While the company’s attempts at creating a first-party title hasn’t gone so well,…
By Mike Fahey Published June 7, 2010 -
New Kingdom Hearts Game Will Be At E3
E3 may well be full of unexpected surprises, but one thing that’s for sure is we’ll see a new Kingdom Hearts game. Series director Tetsuya Nomura was interviewed in the latest issue of Game Informer, and while he stopped short of saying that one of two KH games currently in development is Kingdom Hearts 3,…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 7, 2010 -
What’s This ‘Nerkas’ Trailer Playing Outside Near E3?
Anyone in L.A. going down by Staples Center at all? Head over and check this out in person, maybe you can tell us what “Nerkas” is, and what kind of game it appears to be describing. In real life, there’s a domain Nerkas.com registered to Square Enix Europe. That’s all we know about that. In…
By Owen Good Published June 6, 2010 -
Lawsuit Filed Against Final Fantasy XIII
Daniel Wolf has filed a class-action lawsuit against both Sony and Square Enix, claiming that Final Fantasy XIII has caused “severe and widespread damage” to PlayStation 3 consoles. Wolf reckons that freezes some players have run into while playing the game have “caused their PS3 consoles to freeze and become totally and permanently inoperable.” “Both…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 5, 2010