Square Enix Weekly Recap
Posted by Ben Bateman on 13/08/2012
It's all hands on deck this Monday morning as we make the last minute preparations for gamescom. Apologies if we sound a bit quiet today but expect plenty of updates from Germany and of course the obligatory sausage related tweets. In the meantime join us in looking at all the cool news to hit the web last week.
- Video Interview with Adi Granov, Comic Illustrator Extraordinaire - Ever wanted to know what it would be like to be a professional comic illustrator? Find out more in our interview with the man of Heroes of Ruin and Iron Man fame.
- Community Spotlight: All the Deus Ex! - We celebrate all things Deus Ex with our top 5 community videos.
- Gamer Chat: Motion Control - Just as you finally grab your Kinect another motion controller comes along. In this week's community discussion we ask what this means to you and how you'd implement it into your favourite Square Enix games.
- Sleeping Dogs PC Features Revealed - Got a sweet gaming rig? Sleeping Dogs is going to sure look pretty on PC!
- Tomb Raider at the V&A British Design Exhibition - We took a look at the British Design Exhibition in the Victoria and Albert Museum to investigate Lara Croft's guest appearance.
- New Sleeping Dogs Launch Trailer - With only days left we've got another fantastic trailer to get all excited about!
- Nerd Machine Exclusive: Tomb Raider Shield Tee - Fandom and T-shirts go together in epic harmony. Check out these new Tomb Raider designs.
- Atomic Talks to IO About Crowd Tech - A great in-depth look at the Glacier 2 engine and what it does for immersion in Hitman: Absolution.
- Meet The Team: Justin Bullard - Meet Justin at United Front Games, the main man responsible for the cinematics in Sleeping Dogs.
- Pwnisher Fight Film - This is no ordinary YouTube video, this is a high quality, mind-blowing Sleeping Dogs inspired short.
- King of Kong - If Team Fortress 2 items weren't enough, PC users who pre-order Sleeping Dogs will also get this amazing map!
- The Soul Void: In-depth Look Part 1 - Stunning concept art for Heroes of Ruin.
- The Soul Void: In-depth Look Part 2 - A quick look at the devious enemies that will cross your path in Heroes of Ruin
- Ruinscars: An In-depth Look - Another batch of truly spectacular artwork for Heroes of Ruin. Seriously, check it out.
- Daily and Weekly Challenges: Fresh Meat for the Grinder - Find out what challenges await you this week in Heroes of Ruin.
- Letter from the Producer, XXXIII (08/08/2012) - Letter #33 for the FINAL FANTASY XIV community from the Producer, Naoki Yoshida.
In the news
- Kingdom Hearts II Manga to Return in Japan (Anime News Network)
- Q&A with Dan Sochan, Producer on Sleeping Dogs (Connected Digital World)
- Square Enix Giving FF7 PC Free to Angry Customers (Tom's Hardware)
- How Square Enix is planning for Final Fantasy XIV's rebirth (MCV)
- Ouya kickstarter ends millions over set goal (Examiner)
- Wizardlings Is One Of Square Enix USA’s Next Projects (Siliconera)
- Square-Enix releases second FFXIV 2.0 trailer (Massively)
- Otome Break, Square Enix’s Mecha Girl Training Sim, Has A Touch Of Retro (Siliconera)
- Bravely Default: Flying Fairy Will Have Downloadable Content (Siliconera)
Latest Comments
going boxed my self from - http://www.shopto.net/video%20games/pc/PCFI37-final-fantasy-xiv-collectors-edition still is £47.86Posted by Adelphe on 24/05/2013 11:01- dPosted by Adelphe on 24/05/2013 11:00
>_< Australia's EBGames has listed this but.. it is freaking EXPENSIVE compared to the US and UK... What the hell -_-Posted by KirakunAUS on 24/05/2013 09:08
And I would prefer to pre-order this through the SE site as I know they can then make sure I get all my codes early.Posted by Pyrohybrid on 24/05/2013 02:14- @LaytLeinGod Yes. http://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/en/product/#ceSpecialAnchor Click on Pricing/Platform for infoPosted by Pyrohybrid on 24/05/2013 02:12
Hey guys, just wondering but do we pay for the online for this game?Posted by FaytLeinGod on 24/05/2013 02:10- Will someone sort of the Square Enix EU shop please!!!!!!!! I am trying to pre-order the Collectors Edition on PS3 and i cant but you can pre-order the PC versions :-( Why is that us from the EU has to suffer again?? Everything is available to order on the USA site...... as normal :-(Posted by Slagboyz on 24/05/2013 02:05
This is great news, considering the fact that Square-Enix will have a grand line-up of major titles that are expected to show during E3! By the way, any news on when that particular line-up of games that will show up at E3 will be announced? We can all pretty much guess what those titles are, but Square Enix has given us many surprises, both good and bad, over the years.Posted by neo_bahamut on 24/05/2013 01:14
Comments
I find Square has been kind of slacking recently. Your communication has been quite awful. For example when you said FF Dimension's was too be released on Android the same day as IOS but it hasn't even been released in Europe on Android. You have rushed out releases of games that have had several problems. (Namely FFVI for PC and I also believe Dimensions also had problems?)
Your weekly recaps have disappeared, this was the last one and it was almost a month ago... And you rarely give the EU community anything back for supporting Square Enix. NA and JP get rewards for registering games, we get, well nothing. I just find it a bit unfair that other regions get it and we are left out. Other game developers are very supportive of there fan base. You should take a look at CD Projekt RED for example, they are fully behind there community!
Yes you have improved a lot of things on the EU website since you started and introduced some great idea's. Such as the improved layout, weekly recaps, gamer chat and the competitions. But you seem to have dropped two of those idea's. I hope you know i'm not moaning at you and I understand that you just can't make things happen there and then, but everything coming from Square has been pretty poor recently and I just really want to know what is going on?
You SE incompetence not giving us what we wanted i also belive You asked SCEE to pulled sleeping dogs demo as SCEE announce it today on EU-blog.