Is there any truth that there's a bitter rivalry between Square Enix icons Yoshinori Kitase and Tetsuya Nomura? Is this the reason why they're supposedly working on separate Final Fantasy Versus XIII games? What does he think of former boss Hironobu Sakaguchi's work with the Final Fantasy franchise? All the answers in the full article.

Square Enix is planning to expand its reach, but will its current setback - a slumping fiscal year 2007 - get in the way of everybody's favorite RPG factory? We'll know in the near future, or at least when we see the results of fiscal year 2008. More details in the full article.

Most of us are heating up with the impending release of Grand Theft Auto 4, but there's no need to lose your cool. Just like last week, a modest batch of titles will hit shelves as prelude to April's main act. Square Enix is ready to make some noise in The World Ends With You, while Nintendo is letting the Pokemon loose with Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness and Explorers of Time. The rest are waiting at the full article.

* Article originally posted Apr 21, 2008 at 12:48AM

Boy oh boy! Do we have some delightful news on Square Enix. If you're a die-hard fan of their games, then you would probably want to be part of the Square Enix Members official website. The site is currently open for pre-registration. Find out more on the site in the full article.

Unlike western developers favoring middleware like the Unreal Engine, Square Enix built different technology from scratch for every game they have developed.

It's only recently that they began to standardize their technology, from the White Engine to the Crystal Tools. In this interview of Taku Murata, he talked about the philosophy behind Crystal Tools. Find out more after the jump!

One of Square Enix's announcements in the recent GDC 2008 event is the renaming of their new in-house new graphics engine, White Engine. Now officially known as Crystal Tools, Square Enix's engine doesn't only cater to the PlayStation 3. It has turned multiplatform, and even supports the Nintendo Wii. More details in the full article.

The steady stream of high-quality games as early as the first quarter of 2008 continues, proven by this week's line-up of releases which includes Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors, the next Ace Attorney, and Dynasty Warriors 6. A very promising Devil May Cry-esque MMORPG is also on the way, while Need for Speed is in for another lap. The rest of this week's releases await at the full article!

Square Enix is spreading its reach farther as they unveil their plans of acquiring some more local and foreign companies. It's a tried and tested formula to cash in more of that valuable green paper, and there isn't a reason why they shouldn't do it.

Check out what their gameplan is over at the full article.

Before, if you wanted to hear Japanese developers speak about their work in person, you had to book a flight to the Land of the Rising Sun. Fortunately, this year's San Francisco Game Developer's Conference is offering a better alternative: several Japanese developers will be hosting talks on a variety of topics. Interested in knowing what the topics will be? A listing of may be found in the full article, right after the jump.

Square Enix and Enterbrain have published a must-have book for all Final Fantasy enthusiasts: the Final Fantasy 20th Anniversary History Book. The book contains a lot of details, images, and articles about all the Final Fantasy games released the past years. Check out the full article to find out more about this awesome book.