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Mike Fischer became Square Enix of America’s president and CEO in July 2010. He is now gone from the company.

A Polygon report confirms that Fischer has moved on to Amazon’s Japan division as the vice president of digital Music and Video.

Fischer told the site that he left on good terms, but did not provide further information. Square Enix has not commented on the situation at this time.

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A couple of weeks ago, Capcom announced plans to host a “blood swimming pool” event in London. The company hoped to promote the new release of Resident Evil: Revelations while hosting an enjoyable happening for fans.

This was set to take place over the weekend, but has since been cancelled due to the tragic events that took place in the UK yesterday.

Capcom said in a statement:

“In light of yesterday’s sad events we’re cancelling our Revelations pool event. Thank you for your understanding.”

This is probably for the best. It just wouldn’t have made sense to host this given what happened.

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Throughout this year’s E3, Square Enix will provide fans with “dedicated video programming”. The “Square Enix Presents” program “will offer a diverse and user-friendly range of programming aimed at sharing unique perspectives with Square Enix’s global audience”, the company said today.

Akio Oofuji, marketing director at Square Enix Japan, commented:

“SQUARE ENIX will be showcasing a terrific lineup of games this E3 Expo. Square Enix Presents is a new way we can engage on a more meaningful and personal level with our community and fans and share with them the spectacle and excitement of E3.”

Square Enix plans to share a full schedule over the next few weeks. The company will outline the games and personalities who will be present.

You’ll be able to keep track of Square Enix at this year’s E3 through the following social media outlets:

YouTube: www.youtube.com/squareenixpresents
Twitter: https://twitter.com/@squareenix
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SquareEnix

Source: Square Enix PR

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Aksys Games has announced its E3 2013 lineup, which includes two unannounced titles. Trailers for both games will be shown during the event and they’ll be playable as well. Aksys says that it will be bringing the games “to these here shores”, so it sounds like a couple of localization announcements are planned.

Aksys’ E3 lineup includes Muramasa Rebirth, A.R.E.S. Extinction Agenda EX, and the company’s first mobile titles. Strangely, there’s no news on Hakuoki: Memories of the Shinsengumi, which was confirmed for North America last month.

Source: Aksys Games PR

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Square Enix opened a 10th anniversary teaser site a couple of months ago, but it was taken down soon after.

Now it’s back. And a countdown is now included – seemingly, anyway. The “timer” stays consistent at 00:46:49.

The text has also changed a bit. It now reads:

As of April 1, 2013 we’ve reached our 10th anniversary!
We hope you’ll continue supporting us going forward as well!
Now then, we said we were “thinking about various things” on the site not long ago, so we’ve prepared this little heartwarming site…
as soon as it’s ready, the counter will begin to move. Please wait for a little while. ROCK ‘N ROLL.

You can get a look at the teaser page here.

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Romance of the Three Kingdoms IV: Wall of Fire looks to be primed for a re-release on the Virtual Console. The OFLC rated the SNES title today, which means that it will likely be hitting the Wii U eShop at some point in the future.

Other recent ratings from the OFLC include DuckTales Remastered, Rayman Legends, and Attack of the Friday Monsters: A Tokyo Story.

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After staying with Tecmo Koei for close to two decades, Hisashi Koinuma has received a major promotion. Koinuma primarily handles the Samurai Warriors titles as series producer, but he’s now taking on the role of the company’s executive vice president.

Koinuma’s past work includes Fist of the North Star: Ken’s Rage, One Piece: Pirate Warriors, and Pokemon Conquest in addition to Samurai Warriors. There’s no sign that Koinuma will cease video game development, as he’s currently involved with Toukiden.

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In an announcement covering the digital release of Rune Factory: Tides of Destiny on the PlayStation Network last week, Natsume CEO and president Hiro Maekawa left an interesting tease. The company will be highlighting “more digital titles” at E3 2013 next month.

Maekawa said:

“We’re excited to show the media the fruit of the past year’s promise to provide more digital titles at next month’s E3 Expo.”

Natsume has been giving the Virtual Console quite a bit of love as of late. Maybe we’ll be hearing about more of these classic releases?

Source: Natsume PR

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A new Iwata Asks has gone live for your reading pleasure. The discussion is all about NERD – formerly of Mobiclip fame. Mobiclip underwent the name change after being fully acquired by Nintendo.

You can find the full Iwata Asks here. It’s filled with lots of juicy tidbits.

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The Batman: Arkham Origins Kevin Conroy situation just got a whole lot more interesting.

Conroy was originally rumored to be skipping Origins and wouldn’t be back to voice Batman. But yesterday, a video emerged from the Dallas Comic-Con in which he stated that he’s been working on the “next Arkham game” for the past “nine or ten months”. The logical assumption was that Conroy would be back in Origins to reprise his role as Batman, but we learned today that Roger Craig Smith will be voicing the dark knight instead.

So where does that leave Conroy? In a now-removed tweet, Conroy said that he is in a “new ARKHAM GAME coming soon” and now Origins as initially thought.

“Confusion in Dallas! I am in new ARKHAM GAME coming soon, NOT ARKHAM ORIGINS coming this fall.”

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