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Square Enix Opens US Studio - Seeks US Employees

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It seems the US will play host to yet another large company that is set to open its Development Studios doors. Square Enix has listed opportunities in various careers sections asking for applicants to start work in their new US Studio.

SLip over to the site to find out more.

Although personally I'm a little worried that they didn't pick Canada, as it offers the biggest incentives to game developers at the moment with huge tax cuts and incentives. ?!

The well respected Japanese developer and publisher, Square Enix, has issued a notice on their careers page calling for various positions to be filled in a new development studio based in Los Angeles.

Square Enix currently has two American based offices, one already in Los Angeles and the other in Seattle, both of which currently handle marketing, localisation and publishing for North America.

The new development studio seems to focus on producing more Western orientated titles, with the Xbox 360 a key focus. The development studio will be built from the ground up, with positions including; Xbox 360 software engineer, 3D artists, product manager and more.

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Bale Fire | November 18, 2008

Hope this means Square Enix will consider the West a bit more, info, demo's and even the games themselves have massive delays compared to Japan and such.
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Immortal Kaim | November 18, 2008

Yeah that seems like good news, especially with info that only seems to slowly trickle out of Japan
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Ovan | November 18, 2008

Square of America? sounds promising, really.
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BANDITO ATTACK | November 18, 2008

10$ say they use it to make jrpgs!
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  Big A2 | November 18, 2008
  
  $50 says they still won't tell us when Chrono Trigger DS is comming out in PAL regions.
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  Final Blade | November 18, 2008
  
  _{think arpgs work better.}
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    Big A2 | November 20, 2008
    
    Or, American Japanese Role Playing Games.
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      Final Blade | November 20, 2008
      
      _{Haha good one.}
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      Big A2 | November 20, 2008
      
      No, I'm serious. They will most likely make JRPGs aimed at the American audience.
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Koloth | November 18, 2008

Damn, if only I had kept up my programming skills... And had any desire at all to live in the hell hole that is LA. Ah well.
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Daigoji_Gai | November 20, 2008

Big big news! This means Square is really sticking to their world and trying to break out in a big way onto the global stage (not that they hadn't in the past, but this is the start of a more aggressive approach)...

I just hope we keep getting quality localizations (with original Japanese language track pls) of JPN-SquareEnix titles.