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In what is fast appearing as the game industry’s largest ever mass-migration from East to West, mega-publisher Square Enix is rumoured to be reducing as many as 300 staff from its native base in Japan. The rumours, first reported by Kotaku, come as Square Enix continues to pour its sizable …
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Western-facing mega-publisher cutting ties from its native country
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Read More »Nintendo announces Wii price cut
The anticipated Wii price cut has at last been made official, with drops for machine in both North America and Japan due to come into effect. As has been speculated, the price of the Wii in the US will drop from its current $249 to $199 from September 27th. In …
Read More »Yakuza to lead PSN import area?
Alongside the numerous other revelations that have come to light thanks to a leaked publisher document this morning, it has also emerged that Sony is considering introducing an import games area of PSN. And furthering reports of a Western release for Yakuza 3 over the last few days, it seems …
Read More »March release for PS3 Motion Controller
Following on from the shock news of PS2 and Dreamcast titles on PSN, it has also been revealed that Sony’s PS3 motion controller will be released in Japan in March 2010. Furthermore, Sony has targeted global sales of between 4m and 5m for its upcoming gesture-sensing peripheral. In addition, Sony …
Read More »Koeis western sales at 8 per cent
Koei games sold outside of Japan currently only account for 8 per cent of the company’s total sales. That’s according to Sony Japan Studios’ senior vice president Yasuhide Kobayashi, who discussed how Japanese companies are failing to engage audiences outside of their home market. Kobayashi claimed Koei is struggling the …
Read More »JAPAN: Square and Disney team up
A deal has been struck between Japanese publisher Square Enix and growing casual games force Disney Interactive that will see the RPG specialist bring Disney’s upcoming range of digital entertainment offerings to Japan. All the details are over on CasualGaming.biz.
Read More »JAPAN: Pokemon fever returns
The Pokemon craze may be getting on a bit in modern gaming terms, but there’s no sign yet that Pokefever is abating with huge sales for Nintendo’s latest release in the franchise in Japan last week. Head over to CasualGaming.biz for all of the numbers.
Read More »Big FFXIII announcement expected
Many are predicting that publisher Square Enix will later this morning at a Tokyo press event announce the release date of the massively hyped Final Fantasy XIII in Japan. Furthermore, an ad that went live on Square Enix’s Japanese website yesterday suggests that December 17th will be the day the …
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