
Police have raided the offices of Square Enix over a complaint by SNK that popular Square Enix published manga Highscore Girl infringed its copyrights by including characters from its various games without the proper blood oaths.
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Breaking news concerning the continuation of the Final Fantasy VII franchise has been unveiled – though fan hopes are likely to be insta-dashed with the words “free-to-play” and “smartphone” – in the form of “Final Fantasy VII G-Bike,” a remake of the famous motorcycle mini-game from Square Enix’s magnum opus RPG.
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Sony has announced it is dumping its entire 8.2% stake in Square Enix, although Sony maintains it is merely because it is strapped for cash and has nothing to do with Square Enix’s outstanding performance in recent years.
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Square Enix has explained why they think Final Fantasy XIV proved such a disaster and how they rescued it with A Realm Reborn – including the fascinating revelation that the game’s flowerpots had as many polygons as its player characters…
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Square Enix’s latest effort to milk poor Lightning sees them cover her in a layer of filth and wounds for a spot of macho post-reboot Lara Croft DLC cosplay in Lightning Returns – much to the despair of Lightning fans, most of whom seem to think she has been dragged through the muck quite enough already…
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The tortured hopes of Final Fantasy fans have been dashed yet again, this time by a rather well-received SNES-styled “retro-spective” recap of the Final Fantasy XIII story released to help players make sense of the storyline of Lightning Returns.
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Final Fantasy fans have been busily debating the merits of Square Enix’s suitably enhanced port of Final Fantasy VI to lucrative and reassuringly non-HD Android platform.
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Square Enix has cancelled one of its planned Hitman games and replaced it with a mobile game, much to the consternation of those who thought its fascination with social games was only being inflicted on its own classic franchises.
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Square Enix is causing an upset amongst Final Fantasy fans with their latest rather desperate efforts to squeeze more life out of the franchise, with many contending poor Lightning has been reduced to a “marketing plaything.”
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Square Enix seems to be on a winning streak with its relaunch of Final Fantasy XIV, with plenty of praise for the cuteness of its FF13 costumes and a much-needed break for the long-suffering Lightning…
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American opinions on just why it is Japanese games are so inferior to the fruits of American ingenuity – ranging from a lack of muscle and creepy anime eyes to insufficiently casual-friendly design and stories too long for their limited attention spans – and presented as the way forward for the Japanese industry, have been proving unsurprisingly incendiary amongst Japanese and others…
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Obscure tarento Arisa Kanzawa, picked to portray the 3D version of Tomoko for Square Enix’s WataMote GanGan ads, has been attracting attention from fans of the show for her extreme cuteness – although whether this is a fair rendition of what this arch-fujoshi would actually look like is another matter.
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