Square Enix Admit They Take Too Damn Long To Make Games [Business] In an admission that will no doubt mean...something to frustrated Final Fantasy fans the world over, Square Enix boss Yoichi "Imperial Hot" Wada has confessed that the company takes too long to make a game. Speaking with GI.biz about their recent buyout of British firm Eidos (publishers o [..]
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Square Enix Admit They Take Too Damn Long To Make Games [Business] In an admission that will no doubt mean...something to frustrated Final Fantasy fans the world over, Square Enix boss Yoichi "Imperial Hot" Wada has confessed that the company takes too long to make a game. Speaking with GI.biz about their recent buyout of British firm Eidos (publishers o [..]
Square Enix Honcho Talks About The Dragon Quest IX Haters [Square Enix] Remember, game developers have feelings, too. When Dragon Quest IX went on sale, Amazon Japan users went bonkers, slamming the game. When asked how the game's creators felt about that, Square Enix boss Yoichi Wada offered this, "Because it's the internet, we [..]
Loads Of New Square Enix Screens (FF, Kingdom Hearts) [Square Enix] Following Square Enix's private bash held over the weekend in Tokyo, GameSpot Japan were handed some new screenshots for all of the games featured during the festivities. Some aren't strictly "new", since we've seen them before as scans or at smaller resolutions, but you ma [..]
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Square Enix: FFXIII Needs Ten Times The Success Of Smaller Titles [Square Enix] Eagerly awaited multi-platform title Final Fantasy XIII has been five years in the making. Five years is a long time and not cheap. The pressure must be tremendous. "You're right there is an unusual sort of pressure on Final Fantasy XIII," the game's produc [..]
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Eidos Montreal Creating Square Enix's First "Global Game" [Square Enix] The development studio working on Thief 4 and Deus Ex 3 has another major project on its hands, with Square Enix revealing that Eidos Montreal is hard at work on the company's first "global game." The news came today during a keynote speech from Square Enix CEO Yoichi Wada [..]
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Loads Of New Square Enix Screens (FFXIII, Kingdom Hearts, etc) [Square Enix] Following Square Enix's private bash held over the weekend in Tokyo, GameSpot Japan were handed some new screenshots for all of the games featured during the festivities. Some aren't strictly "new", since we've seen them before as scans or at smaller resolutions, but you ma [..]
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What Square Enix Games Are Playable At Tokyo Game Show? [Square Enix] This month brings the Tokyo Game Show to...Chiba, Japan. And what games is Square Enix bringing to TGS? Minus the Japan-only Lord of Vermilion II arcade game and Japan-only cell phone games like Kingdom Hearts: Coded, the list of Square Enix console ga [..]