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Square Enix LA Working On Downloadable Games [Square Enix]
kotaku.com - 11/23/2008
Square Enix LA Working On Downloadable Games [Square Enix]
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Square Enix's new Los Angeles studio is still hiring , but they now have a small core staff of coders. To ease the new kids gently into the world of Squeenix development, the new studio is going to focus on downloadable games. "We started the in-house development team a couple of months ago ...

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...on pampers, programming & pitching manure:  Square sets sail for yesterday's new world

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Square sets sail for yesterday's new world
...on pampers, programming & pitching manure — Square announces that they are going to be doing downloadables. Cool. Of course the money quote is: "...All formats – Xbox Live, WiiWare, PlayStation Network – are all viable formats for us" Those aren't all the formats though. Are they? Just those that developers have been excited about for a few years. PC, iPhone, (DS & PSP also support downloads now don't they?), etc. Anyhow, says something about the industry's myopia. Kind of like europeans setting sail for the new world when those that settled it are already in wagons heading west. ...

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