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Hell has frozen over, pigs are flying, and a Square Enix game has actually managed to exceed the publisher’s ludicrous sales expectations

Three things are certain in life: death, taxes, and a videogame failing to meet Square Enix’s sales targets. Last year saw Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth and Final Fantasy 16 falling short of whatever number the publisher cooked up in suited-up boardrooms, and before that it said Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy undershot expectations, and called…

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Hudson Soft’s “Lost” ‘SimCity’ Game For Japanese Phones Has Just Been Preserved

SimCity 3D launched back in February 2006. The feature phone preservationist XYZ has recently preserved the Japanese-exclusive feature phone game SimCity 3D, as reported by RockmanCosmo on social media. SimCity 3D is an “expanded” version of EA’s SimCity Network Edition, licensed and developed by Hudson Soft. It featured “enhanced” 3D graphics that let the players…

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Final Fantasy 14 is, you guessed it, still making bank for Square Enix as Dawntrail rakes in the big bucks, though it might not be all sunshine and tacos

It’s been confirmed for a while that the Final Fantasy 14, which reached its 10th year recently, has been a load-bearing game for Square Enix’s balance sheets. That was as per a fiscal report ending in March 2024 (the pre-Dawntrail times) that saw it making up 68.4% of its operating profits. This was then confirmed…

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