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Square-Enix President and CEO Mike Fisher Resigns

Square-Enix president and CEO Mike Fischer has left the Japanese company. After nearly three years with the developer/publisher, Fischer departed for a vice president position at Amazon Japan's Digital Music and Video division.

KingWilly1053984d ago

That's quite the weird jump in industry field.

MoveTheGlow3984d ago

It is! I wonder if he was basically pushed/forced to resign to centralize Squenix's control, like they already did with marketing divisions. Then he pushes how good a liaison he is between companies with presences in Japan and the US, and gets the Amazon job.

NarooN3984d ago

Maybe he got tired of Squeenix being a terrible company as of late? *shrugs*

Nothing really wrong with Amazon.

SexyGamerDude3984d ago

Only three years? Why so short of a time?

xamtheking3984d ago

I sure hope this doesn't affect production of KH3

Ilovetheps53984d ago

It's not being made right now. They've stated a couple times that they won't start production of that game until Versus is finished.

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Yuji Naka guilty of insider trading breaks silence to accuse Square Enix producer of lies

Yuji Naka was fined $1.2 million and given a suspended jail sentence for the crime.

Profchaos9d ago (Edited 9d ago )

I find his comments around how Balan turned out to be very insightful as to why the game is trash. He basically apologises for its existence

solideagle8d ago

can you please give some of us who don't know anything about this, a summary of what happened?

Chocoburger8d ago

Balan was knowingly rushed out by S-E, it had an extremely short dev cycle and was fairly low budget.
Naka was the game's director until near the end when he was fired or perhaps he quit, I forgot.

carrotcakeag8d ago

@Chocoburger Yeah they did fire and replace him which caused him to unload a bunch of rants about the company. The project only existed because of Naka in the first place, he convinced Square to give him one shot at making a platformer. They gave him an opportunity but pulled the rug out before he was done for reasons not explained.

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Top ‘Dragon Quest’ Producer Steps Down in Square Enix Overhaul

The top producer of Square Enix flagship Dragon Quest franchise is stepping down from the role, following delays in developing the next installment of the popular series.

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shinoff218314d ago

Please o please don't turn dragon quest into final fantasy square enix we dont wont that. Dragon quest works well just as it I. Plus you'll piss off Japanese fans to.

jznrpg12d ago

Hopefully they don’t. From this it doesn’t sound like that is the case and development is just taking too long.

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Square Enix Set to Drop New Manga in 2024

Square Enix will be releasing three new manga titles later this year, all of which are available for pre-order now.