The number of downloads of NieR Re[in]carnation exceeded 5 million. It took the mobile game a little less than a week to do this. At the same time, the project is now available only in Japan.The developers announced the achievement in the official Twitter account.

Square Enix will launch a special program that will allow you to transfer most of the employees to permanent remote work without loss of efficiency. The company plans to adapt to the realities of the “new world” and make remote access a new standard.The Japanese publisher will divide all employees into remote (at least three times a week they work from home) and office (at least three times a week they work from the office).

In two months after the release, Marvel’s Avengers lost almost the entire audience. The number of simultaneous players has dropped by 96%, and the average online now rarely exceeds 700 people.Last weekend, the maximum online Marvel’s Avengers on Steam was 1,190 players.

Despite a good start, Marvel’s Avengers turned out to have a short tail of sales. Because of this, Square Enix‘s gaming division went into negative territory at the end of the last quarter.

Publisher Square Enix has opened a new division. It will deal with AI developments not only for games, but also for “new forms of entertainment”.

Square Enix shipped 3.5 million copies of Final Fantasy VII Remake in the first three days of sales. It is not reported how many of them were for digital copies sold, and how many were for retail deliveries.

A new studio of People Can Fly, the developers of Gears of War and Bulletstorm, has opened in New York. This is the first division of the company in the USA.

The game is exclusive to the Nintendo Switch, released last July.

But the staff will remain the same.

Square Enix reported for three fiscal quarters following other game publishers. The company is not doing well, judging by its indicators.

The game was released on January 25 on PS4 and Xbox One.

Three Square Enix mobile titles are about to be blocked in Belgium. The reason is the presence of loot boxes in these games.

Two Asian dragons decided to work together. Today, on August 30, Tencent and Square Enix announced the signing of a letter of intent. Its result will be the formation of a strategic alliance of companies.

Square Enix has agreed with the French game streaming service Blacknut to distribute its mobile games of the Go series and Hitman Sniper. The company made this decision after the premium distribution model of these titles did not justify itself.

Games are increasingly addressing specific political and social issues in their plots and settings. However, major publishers seem embarrassed to admit this and constantly insist that their titles are not a political statement. The Polygon publication discussed with industry workers and experts why this is happening.

The Union of Game Publishers of Europe published the top 50 sales of digital copies of games from May 28 to June 3. In the first place was the next part of the football simulator from EA.

We are looking into what happened to the shares of Nintendo, Ubisoft, Sony, Square Enix, Microsoft and Electronic Arts after their presentations at E3.

Japanese developer and publisher Square Enix has assembled a new division that will create titles for the Nintendo Switch console. This was told by Square Enix game producer Tomoya Asano to the Game Informer publication.

The audience of the Hitman Sniper mobile shooter has reached 10 million people. According to this indicator, the title can be considered the most popular game in the famous “killer” franchise.