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.

Japanese developer and publisher Square Enix announced the opening of the Luminos Production studio. The head of the new division was appointed the project manager of the role-playing game Final Fantasy XV Hajime Tabata (Hajime Tabata).

Square Enix announced a personnel reorganization of the board of directors. The new board includes developers who participated in the creation of a number of flagship tiles of the company.

Square Enix will implement the “game-service” model in new single-player titles, said the company’s CEO Yosuke Matsuda. He clarified that he does not mean loot boxes and microtransactions.

Game designer and one of the creators of the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise Yuji Naka has moved to Square Enix. Naka announced this on his Twitter.

In May of this year, the Danish studio IO Interactive left Square Enix and took with it the flagship Hitman franchise. The president of Square Enix, Yosuke Matsuda, admitted that he left Hitman to the creators because he loves this game too much.

The mobile strategy of Final Fantasy XV: A New Empire by MZ studio and Square Enix has crossed the milestone of 20 million downloads.

The Japanese company Square Enix has announced plans to gain about ¥100 billion ($900 million) from sales of games for mobile platforms.

The combined sales of digital and physical copies of the action with role-playing elements of Nier: Automata exceeded 2 million copies in six months since the release.

The Japanese role-playing game Final Fantasy XV by Square Enix has sold 6.5 million copies in the 10 months since the release of the title at the end of November last year.

Yahoo Japan has launched the Game Plus game portal for mobile platforms and PC. It supports HTML5 games and cloud streaming of games.

The mobile role-playing game Final Fantasy: Brave Exvius by Square Enix has gained 23 million downloads by the first anniversary of the project.

A new role-playing game by Japanese game designer Yoko Taro (Yoko Taro) SINoALICE topped the rating of cash applications of the Japanese App Store.