Square Enix Weekly Recap: 24/09/2012

 

The hardest thing about Monday mornings is knowing that you have to do work when you'd far rather be playing games. What's even harder about Monday mornings is knowing that you probably should have gone to bed earlier instead of playing games until the early hours. So whist we shuffle some pieces of paper, mumble some fake business terms like "delegation-correlation graphs" in an effort to look busy, let's actually grab a strong cup of tea and catch up on last week's news.

 

  • Tools of the Trade Hitman Trailer - 20th November feels like it's almost within our grasp but until then IO Interactive has got a tantalising video of Agent 47 teasing his weapons and methods.
  • Square Enix Store Update: 18/09/2012 - Slow and steady wins the race, so they say. We'd like to thank our gamers in New Zealand and Australia for their patience while we make the changes to allow them to purchase digital downloads from the Square Enix Store.
  • Gamer Chat: YARRRRRRR!!! - Every year on the 19th September it's International Talk Like a Pirate Day. In celebration of this momentous occasion we asked you to look through the Square Enix roster to find the perfect pirate recruit...ARRRR!
  • DEMONS' SCORE Out Now on iOS - Teddy Bears that fly, glorious guns, deadly demons and all this in a rhythm game? Check it out!
  • Community Spotlight: Sleeping Dogs all the Wei! - It was too difficult to pick just one person for this week's community spotlight so this week we decided to celebrate 5 community creations.
  • Sleeping Dogs October Download Content - If you're like us and have completed everything Sleeping Dogs has to offer then you're more than likely eager for more. The first details of new Sleeping Dogs download content have been revealed and you can expect more information at the New York Comic Con.
  • Forum Comp #9 - AoD Caption Contest - Want to grab a copy of Angel of Darkness? Head over to the Tomb Raider forums for your chance to grab a code!
  • How Well Does Crime Pay - If you haven't taken the time to look at the new Sleeping Dogs website then there's an almost encyclopaedic amount of information about how people are playing the game. Did you know that the global community has eaten over 2.2 million Pork Buns?
  • Share Your 3DS Code! - Looking to find likeminded Heroes of Ruin fans for some fun co-op action? This is the place to be.
  • Daily Challenges Update - Layeth Thine Smack Down - Has thee the strength of a stallion and the cunning of a fox to take on these Heroes of Ruin daily challenges?

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Comments

Hi Ben, in response to your answer yesterday, the following link is similar to what other site have been saying over the past few months http://www.psu.com/a016937/Final-Fantasy-X-HD-in-development-trouble
It seems development has ceased to concentrate on the XIII series, which is why there has been no updates :(
I hope you post soon before the SCEE blog update at 2pm, that's when jawad do the store update blog :O
Indeed! I'm reminding people here of that very same point! :)
Yeah i get more money tomorrow because i spend the 1st lot yesterday for other games, thinking we may not get it.

I'm thinking it slightly more then half baked port on IOS in SCEA it's $19.99 so thats £14.99 or £15.99.

i had a quick look on youtube the japanese version and i glad to say it got the movie intro but im puzzle because the gallery were in english on a japanese version.

also i read that it can be play on Vita.
Is there any news on a patch/fix for the cloud / save game syncs for FFVII?
There's been numerous changes to the backend to resolve issues and everytime an issue is reported to Customer Services it's logged with the team who are responsible for updating the game. What issues are you currently experiencing?
why is there no news today? :(
Sorry, the news is ready, it's just waiting for approval before I can push it live. Should be up in a bit.
Hi Ben, I don't know where else to post this so I'll try here.

Can you PLEASE work on get old PS1 games that were never released in EU on the PSN as US imports? Games like Chrono Cross, Legend of Mana and Xenogears.

Aside from that, I'd love to see some SE-published PS2 games on the store. Like Dragon Quest 8!

Please respond, and thanks.
Is there any news on the FFX remaster? It's been 8 months since the project was confirmed to have commenced.
Only that it's still in development. I'll try and dig up some updates for you.
thanks ben sorry that i come across as a anti SE I'm anti SCEE too if i pay for something costly like vita ps3 ipad2 i expected to be treated the same as other fans in all muti regions SE & sony, dont know about apple yet as i'm in my 3rd week with ipad.

i just come off the email to write this it didn't say you going to post infor soon, but thats okay it's not wednesday yet. just need the price for day 1 purchase.

lastly it been a funny week on SCEE blog ppl had email be SCEE bigwigs admitted faults & here me when im on my ipad upstairs got a Email from you ben. lol

so i decided like i said to SCEE to i shall tone down my cynicism for now. :|
Hey Alistair, no worries, like I said I know you're passionate and that's a good thing. We'll do our best to improve! :)

Constructive comments are always welcome.
Very disappointed with TGS. I don't know how you can announce KH HD and not have any news at all on FFX HD after a year.
Not a single article on this site about SE presence at TGS... Even the major sites ignored SE and I'm not surprised. I was there and SE presence was underwhelming. For instance, Square's booth (definitely the smallest of all major japanese developers) was even smaller and attracted fewer people than a neighboring booth by a south korea online games developer with 452 employees (wemade) that I haven't heard about before. Pathetic to say the least.
* you uselessly got a good track record of release content dispate the imports SE you release the DLC of FF13-2 on time, so why not FF3 because you are nip picking aren't you.

thinking should we push FF3 this week, next week, next month or NEVER.
Hey Alistair, in regards to FINAL FANTASY III on PSN you can expect news about the European release shortly. Thanks for you patience while we put together a blog post and news blast with all the relevant details.
Hi ben are you going to say We not getting FF3 on PSP this week on PSN unlike SE favouritism of NA getting it tomorrow.

long live SEA - RIP SEE!! >_>