The newly-announced Square Enix Security Token will keep dirty hacker hands off your hard-earned gil via the magic of the constantly-changing login password. Much like the Blizzard Authenticator released for World of Warcraft last year, the Square Enix Security Token is an actual physical device tha...

Nintendo is going to offer a special limited edition of Nintendo DSi portable game console which comes bundle with Square Enix’s upcoming title, Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days. Along with the game, you’d also receive a nicely-pimped DSi console (picture above). Available in Japan on early May...

Like a middle-aged woman who spends half of Feb. 15 explaining to her mother why a new toilet brush and a night of darts is as much a Valentine's Day as she can expect from Lyle, Square Enix has gone on the record with the precise reasons it has an interest in buying struggling publisher Eidos. In a...

If you believe most reviews, The Last Remnant's outing on the Xbox 360 was mired in technical issues, evoking the kind of strain and unexpected farting more closely associated with the plane-pulling segment of a strong man competition. The most obvious solution, then, is to get a bigger man or perha...

Famitsu Editor-in-Chief Hirokazu Hamamura has looked into his crystal ball and has opinions about how Dragon Quest IX will do in 2009. And it'll do mega, he forecasts. According to Hamamura, "March [DQIX's launch month] will be bigger than the year-end sales war. Even side-stories (such as Dragon Qu...

When we were children, we wanted two things: a Super Mario Bros. movie and a Final Fantasy fighting game; we got one of those things, and it made us wish we were dead. Today, fifteen years later, we have the other one. Does it make us wish we were dead — or does it make us wish we were more al...

The Final Fantasy Tactics-themed iPhone game revealed in the pages of Famitsu back in October has now arrived, as Square Enix unleashes Crystal Defenders for the iPhone and iPod Touch. While the official title of this $7.99 iPhone game doesn't contain the words "Final Fantasy", Crystal Defenders is ...

A Japanese magazine scrounged some new screens of Final Fantasy XIII. Yes, the characters conform to the Squenix design standards, which mean either you can't tell their gender or they actually belong to both. A few sites got their grubby paws on 'em, Smashpad is one publishing in English, so let's ...

About two weeks ago, Japanese gaming weekly bible Famitsu revealed white-hot details on the upcoming Star Ocean: The Last Hope, including the name of the battle system, which, as the headline says, is ridiculous. The name of the battle system is BEAT, which stands for — get ready — Battl...

When I saw this comparison between the Final Fantasy and the battleship Yamato (the largest battleship ever made), I was wondering how the comparison would be drawn: the spectacular demise, perhaps? Not quite. Ray Huling argues that the next crop of Final Fantasy games will be, like theYamato, obsol...