Square Enix has announced a new milestone for Final Fantasy VII Ever Crisis, a free-to-play remake of Final Fantasy VII, which was released on mobile devices in September 2023 and on Steam in December 2023. According to the company, the game downloads have recently surpassed 9 million.

Square Enix published its financial report for the quarter ending June 30, 2024. We have highlighted the main points from the document.

Metacritic has summarized the interim results for 2024. It published a list of the most critically acclaimed games released in the first half of the year.

In January, Square Enix CEO Takashi Kiryu stated that the company would start using artificial intelligence more “aggressively” in game development. Six months later, it seems he no longer considers this such a good idea.

On June 13, Square Enix released the Kingdom Hearts series games on Steam. Previously, their PC versions were available exclusively on the Epic Games Store. However, the launch was most active for the collection with the first few games.

Square Enix has published a report for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2024.

On March 29, South Korean studio Shift Up released a demo of the futuristic action game Stellar Blade on PlayStation 5 consoles. The game showed excellent results. Analysts from Ampere Analysis estimated that at its peak it attracted almost twice as many daily active users (DAU) as the demo version of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth at the time.

Final Fantasy VII: Ever Crisis is a mobile adaptation of the original Final Fantasy VII and its spin-offs. According to Square Enix, since the release on September 7, 2023, the title has been downloaded more than 7 million times.

For the past two and a half months, the value of Square Enix shares has been declining almost continuously. As Bloomberg noted, since the end of June, it has fallen by 30%, as a result of which the capitalization of the Japanese publisher has decreased by $ 2 billion.

On September 7, Square Enix released Final Fantasy VII: Ever Crisis, a mobile adaptation of the seventh part of Final Fantasy. The very next day, the game’s downloads exceeded 2 million.

Square Enix has announced that the games of the Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster series have sold a total of over 3 million copies.

In an interview with the Taiwanese YouTube channel, Naoki Yoshida, producer of Final Fantasy XVI, admitted that he did not like the abundance of competing consoles on the market too much. In his opinion, it would be easier if there was a single platform.

On Friday, August 4, Square Enix published a report for the first quarter of fiscal 2024, which ended on June 30. In it, the company reported a significant drop in profits.

Final Fantasy XVI is selling worse than Square Enix expected. This was stated by the company’s president Takashi Kiryu during a briefing on the results of the last quarter, Bloomberg reports, citing three people who attended the event.

This information became widespread only after the Japanese theater troupe Takarazuka Revue, which is currently preparing a musical based on Final Fantasy XVI, casually mentioned it.

Gamers around the world have bought Final Fantasy XVI over 3 million times, the Famitsu portal reports, citing a Square Enix press release.

The developers of the Japanese RPG Octopath Traveler II have announced that they have sold more than a million copies of the game in three and a half months. They did not provide a breakdown by platform.

Square Enix reported that users around the world have bought the Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster series games over 2 million times. How sales were distributed across platforms is not specified.

Steam users were disappointed with the remake of The Portopia Serial Murder Case, a new Square Enix game that added a neural network. Within a day of its release, it received 90% negative reviews.