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Square Enix has announced a release date for Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn on PS4. The game will be released on Sony’s console on April 14th, with owners of the PS3 game able to transfer their progress for free. Details on how to do this will be announced later, …

March 6th 2013, and Square Enix’s UK team were in jubilant spirits. The Tomb Raider reboot had launched and was an instant critical and commercial smash hit. And that came on the back of a 2012 where the publisher released the UK’s best-selling new IP (Sleeping Dogs) and its latest …

Developers, publishers and retailers must make sure free-to-play games are appropriate for their audience, says Square Enix. Free games has endured a backlash from core fans who accuse them of ripping off gamers and being of poor quality. Different business models give us an option to make different games for …

Square Enix’s Tomb Raider reboot has finally recouped its development costs. The game arrived in March 2013 and debuted at No.1 in the UK charts, becoming the then most successful launch of the year in the process. But despite sales of 3.4m copies in its first three weeks it fell …

Core Online, the HD streaming games service from Square Enix, has been shut down. Visitors to the site are currently greeted with a simple holding image saying Core Online is discontinued”. A statement on the publisher’s support pages adds that: Core Online was released as an experiment to see what …

Keen to dispel recent rumours, Io Interactive has released a number of details concerning its next-gen Hitman game. Reports last week suggested the Hitman franchise had been abandoned on consoles but nothing could be further from the truth. In the next game you will experience a globetrotting Agent 47 at …

Studio promises series' largest levels, and draws inspiration from Contracts and Blood Money

The latest issue of MCV contains all the market data from a mixed 2013 for UK games retail. The magazine is available to download now on iPad and read online. We reveal the biggest publishers, games, consoles and accessories from 2013, plus full analysis. That’s alongside interviews with Chillingo, Square …

March 6th 2013, and Square Enix’s UK team were in jubilant spirits. The publisher had just released Tomb Raider, which achieved the highest Metacritic rating since the 1996 original and went on the sell hundreds of thousands of units in a matter of days. And that followed a 2012 where …

Agent 47 lives on and WILL be gracing PS4 and Xbox One. It was reported yesterday the Square Enix’s next-gen Hitman project had been cancelled and that the IP would in future be focusing on smartphones. This, however, is not the case. There’s a bit of confusion around the Hitman …