Square Enix

Square Enix

    One of my favorite video game publishing company. Square Enix is the creator of my favorite console style role-playing game Final Fantasy series as well as popular games like Dragon quest series and the action-role playing game Kingdom Hearts series.

    Everytime I see a game and it's created by Square Enix, I presume that it's a good game. So far, all the games that I've played that is created by Square Enix are great. But after a long time of being a Square Enix fan, I saw a game that is created by the company, Gyromancer, that for me is a super ridiculous game. I mean, COME ON!!! who wants a BEJEWELED TWIST puzzle on a role- playing game (well... maybe there are some but if your a hardcore role-playing game fan, a bejeweled twist on your game... really SUCKS!!!) (If you want to see Gyromancer - click here ).

   Square Enix also realeased movies and manga, based and non-based on their game realeases, like the popular Final Fantasy VII based movie Final Fantasy VII : Advent Children which is set 2 years after the events of the game. Gangon comics, which is Square Enix's manga publishing division in Japan, published Black God, Papuwa, Pani Poni, Spiral, He is my Master, Yamekui Kenbun, Doubt, Bamboo Blade, Soul Eater, Zombie Loan, Higurashi no Naku Koro ni, Dragon Quest, Kingdom Hearts, Star Ocean and the most successful offspring of Square Enix's manga branch Fullmetal Alchemist with more than 30 million volumes sold in Japan alone.

  
Square Enix was formed as the result of a merger between Square Co. and the Enix Corporation. On April 1, 2003, Enix legally absorbed Square, with Square stockholders receiving 0.85 shares of stock in the new company compared to Enix stockholders receiving a one-to-one trade. As part of the merger, many of the top officials within Square Co. assumed the leadership roles in the new corporate hierarchy, including president Yoichi Wada, who was appointed president of the new corporation.
The company also owns Taito Corp. and Square Enix Europe (which owns fellow publisher and developer Eidos Interactive). Eidos will cease to exist as a publisher, as it has been absorbed into a new subsidiary Square Enix Europe. Square Enix will now publish all of Eidos' owned IPs and currently owns Eidos' development studios. Eidos was most well known for Tomb Raider series and Hitman series which Square Enix will now publish and is also well known for the Championship Manager series of games. Sony Computer Entertainment owns most of the shares in the company as of 2006.



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