Square Enix is the new look version of Squaresoft. Despite being the same company at the core, they tend to operate differently. What went wrong?
After decades of running an incredibly popular modding community site, Nexus Mods founder Dark0ne is passing control to new owners.
Marathon was slated to launch on Sept. 23, 2025 across Xbox, PC, and PlayStation, but Bungie will share the new release date in the fall.
Yeah, you can delay it as much as you want but you ain’t gonna wash that stink off.
It will lessen though and possibly make all the difference if it launches in a state that rectified a lot of the issues people had with it. A LOT of ifs of course.
If you really gotta play ... play the better extraction shooter this year : ARC Raiders
Delaying the inevitable. Bungie hoping the negative publicity will blow over. 🙄
They can't cancel it until a themed controller has been released first... like concord.
If they were absolutely certain about the quality of Marathon, then they had not delayed it just now.
So they've basically just confirmed what everyone, well, a lot of people saw: Marathon is not ready yet, still no soul to be seen.
"Doubling down on the Marathon Universe"
They're doubling down on soul, thank goodness this feedback illuminated that for them...
and N4G was littered with comments like : Marathon looks really good, maybe you're a hater and the likes blah blah ... especially under articles which compared it with Arc Raiders ....
Hailed as Sony's biggest PC hit, more than 63% of Stellar Blade's player base comes from China, proof of the country's growing influence on the global PC gaming market.
Phantom Blade looks great. I’ve seen less of Lost Soul Aside but I hope it’s good as well. If the games are good like Stellar Blade and WuKong then they will sell.
"It is a damn shame that Square Enix decided to kill every franchise they had except for Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts."
That's a huge exaggeration. Square Enix has kept a lot of franchises running beyond those two.
This whole article seems to nitpick every single thing without even bringing up various other topics of interest. The author didn't even bring up the purchase of Eidos and all their properties or even Enix prior to the merger.
"It is a damn shame that Square Enix decided to kill every franchise they had except for Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts."
What are you talking about? They killed those too. Have you played a Final Fantasy game from the last 10 years? LOL SquareEnix is nothing more than a s**t stain on the gaming world these days. The "general" public of morons, just hasn't clued into the fact yet.
Same company at the core? Does the author not know that the Square side lost a lot of their core developers and such when Square and Enix merged.
Square soft and Enix merged in like 2001. The company after the merger had the Enix part more in charge and so a lot of squaresoft titles fell by the wayside. To me that merger changed the company for the worst. They have been far less innovative and effective since.
No mention was made in this article about how Square Enix saved the Tomb Raider franchise.
In fact this entire article omits a lot of things like Enix's own franchises before the merger, the franchises that Square Enix created after the merger, its acquisition of Taito & Eidos, and pretty much glossed over DQVIII & DQIX.
Sounds more whining than an actual fair analysis of the two previous separate companies and eventually merged company as a whole.