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Square Enix trademarks something called Lara Croft: Reflections
And that’s about all we know! The trademark filing, which you can see here, was discovered by Silicon Era and lists the usual broad range of trademark-application subjects, including everything...
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Square Enix CEO resigns as company announces it expects “extraordinary loss”
For a company which has published so many well-received games including Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Sleeping Dogs and Tomb Raider, Square Enix is apparently in pretty dire financial straits. Expecting...
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Square Enix documents reveal disappointment in Tomb Raider, Hitman, Sleeping...
Documents released as part of Square Enix’s financial statement show a company disappointed by Tomb Raider‘s sales of 3.4 million, a number substantially below the 5-6 million they were aiming for. “We...
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Square Enix details “extraordinary loss”, will refocus on smartphones and...
Square Enix announced back in March that the company was expect an “extraordinary loss”, forcing CEO Yoichi Wada to tender his resignation. Now, the full extent of that loss has been revealed, with...
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Square Enix looking to Kickstarter and Greenlight as inspiration for better...
Square Enix’s senior managing director Yosuke Matsuda has used an investor earnings call to muse on the “dishonest” way that large publishers and developers often interact with consumers. “One could go...
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Eidos Montreal founder quits company over problems with Square Enix management
Stephane D’Astous, founder of Eidos Montreal and head of the studio, has revealed in a statement that his anger at Square Enix caused him to part ways last week. “Since last year’s financial...
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Square Enix confirms Tomb Raider sequel already under development
The recent Tomb Raider reboot may have been well received by critics, but sales for the title were several million short of the five or six million units Square Enix were hoping for. However that...
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PC Gaming Report Cards, 2013: How did the big publishers stack up?
At the end of the year, we look back at the highs, the lows, and the in-betweens of all the major publishers. Are they taking PC gaming seriously, or are they letting it slide to focus on other...
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Square Enix releases mysterious Christmas box, reportedly good value
Update: The Christmas goodies won’t be delivered until December 20, as reader tehsoljah has confirmed. Well played sir! Friday, apparently, is the day of giving. Even though it’s Friday the 13th. Maybe...
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Hitman’s next instalment reportedly cancelled, Square Enix working on mobile...
It looks like Square Enix may have pulled the plug on the next Hitman game, with the LinkedIn profile of Richard Knight, a senior designer at the company, revealing that it was cancelled last year in...
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Square Enix shuts down Core Online game streaming service
Square Enix’s Core Online service, which allowed you to stream games online, has shut down due to lack of interest — so much lack of interest, in fact, that it actually shut down at the end of November...
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Sitrep: Square Enix are the necromancers of our time
I went to play Thief recently, where I bumped into games.on.net regent Tim Colwill who was also there to see Thief. Do you know that when Tim goes to things like this he wears a branded games.on.net...
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Square Enix admits the main benefit from DRM: money
Well, raise your hands if you couldn’t have seen this one from a mile away. Adam Sullivan, the senior manager of business and legal affairs at Square Enix’s American division, has admitted what we’ve...
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Thief, Tomb Raider, various Final Fantasys are ridiculously cheap over on the...
A week ago we saw a weird Square Enix bundle hit the Humble Bundle site, offering an odd mix of good and not so good Square Enix published titles. The titles offered by no means represented the full...
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Square Enix wants to hear your pitch for new Gex, Anachronox and Fear Effect...
As part of the Square Enix Collective initiative, the publisher has opened up three IPs from their stable to potential game developers for pitching. Gex, Anachronox, and Fear Effect are the first three...
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EA files trademark for “Unravel”, Square Enix files a trademark for “World of...
Two major publishers, Square Enix and Electronic Arts, have filed a couple of new trademarks recently, potentially lifting the lid on upcoming IPs. On March 17 in Europe, Square Enix took out a...
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Square Enix to hold their own E3 conference for the first time ever
Traditionally the E3 conferences are just Microsoft, EA, Ubisoft and Sony (with Nintendo occasionally making an appearance). This year however not only are Bethesda holding their own dedicated...
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DirectX 12 update makes Square Enix tech demo even more ridiculously gorgeous
Square Enix has an engine called Luminous which is as yet to make a proper commercial debut; Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn is built on an old development branch, and the release version of Final...
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Square Enix teases multiple surprise reveals for its E3 2015 presentation
Square Enix is bringing Deus Ex: Mankind Divided to E3 2015 and as far as I’m concerned it may as well have stopped there, because I am sold. Apparently there’s more than that on show, though; in a new...
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Square Enix’s entire E3 2015 conference now available to watch online
The archiving process for the Square Enix E3 2015 conference just finished — you can watch it online below. In all honesty it’s probably one of the less flashy conferences, easily outdone by Bethesda,...
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