Square Enix Humble Bundle

[dsheinem]

Hitman? Kayne & Lynch? How the ass is any of this related Square Enix? I thought Square Enix was Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy, not a bunch of middling Western games.

from wikipedia:

October 1, 2008: Square Enix transforms into a holding company and is renamed into Square Enix Holdings. At the same time the gaming, contents and publishing businesses are transferred to a spin-off named Square Enix,[1] sharing the same corporate leadership and offices with the holding.[4][17]

February 12, 2009 - Square Enix Holdings announced a takeover deal worth £84.3 million (32p per share) for Eidos plc, the holding company for Eidos Interactive, the UK-based publisher of the Tomb Raider, Hitman, Deus Ex, Thief and Legacy of Kain franchises.[18]

April 22, 2009 - The acquisition of Eidos is completed.

March 11, 2010 - All games that Taito Corporation has published for home consoles and portable systems are now handled by Square Enix.[19]

June 17, 2013 - Square Enix started a mobile studio called Smileworks in Indonesia led by Hiroaki Kanamura. Its focus is original content for mobile devices including iOS, Android, Windows Phone and Nokia.[20]

[BoneSnapDeez]

Huh, interesting. I think I recalled hearing about this a long time ago, and then promptly forgot about it. I did know about Taito though, as I have a Space Invaders game with a Square Enix logo on it.

[Xeogred]

You forget they're a big publisher nowadays, heh.

I mean, those aren't good examples at all, but yeah... not that rare for them to publish stuff better than what they develop in house thesedays.

[marurun]

If you don't already own Deus Ex: Human Revolution, why not? That game should have taken game of the year over Skyrim.

[J T]

If you don't already own Deus Ex: Human Revolution, why not? That game should have taken game of the year over Skyrim.

Agreed.

(Ignoring dsh's flame bait)

[jfrost]

Yeah, the bundle freaking sucks. It's funny that they included Daikatana.

[TSTR]

Suck It Down

[dunpeal2064]

I thought Square Enix was Dragon Quest.

You thought wrong.

[Retrogamer0001]

Level 5 is a pretty good developer, same as Studio Ghibli. Squeenix has evolved into some weird sewer-creature the last few years, almost none of their games appeal to me anymore.

[Tanooki]

I'm a little surprised being Square they're not throwing in any of their heavy in house made hitters from their RPG lineups. I'd be all over it for that, but I don't have an interest in their companies they bought out franchises. I know it would NEVER happen but a Square humble bundle for android/ios would be wicked. Think of getting the various SNES ports that cost them basically nothing, then for a match throw in the DS ports or something else like DQ8.