The whole “3rd person shooter” thing is a bit-old hat at this point; you can barely glance in the window of a game store without seeing a few of them proudly positioned in the sales charts. So it’s no surprise then, that it’s also a genre that now places very highly on Square Enix’s “Westerners like these” list of game archetypes. Combine that with their recent tendency to fund any project that sounds even vaguely like something an American would play, and you get Mindjack.
Square Enix announced its financial results for the first nine months of the fiscal year, related to the period between April and December 2025.
3D Investment Partners, a major shareholder of Square Enix, issued a 112-page presentation criticizing the company's 'sluggish' revenue and profit margins.
If your response to a 112 page presentation from a profit-maximizing investment fund about the need for corporate restructuring (i.e. layoffs), integrating non-gaming (i.e. sell merch or build a theme park) and other corporate initiatives, is that it's about "go woke, go broke", then it's because you've lost the ability to think in any terms. Awful way to live your life. Private equity is destroying the games industry while you obsess that Square made a cringe game everyone thinks is cringe in 2023. Time to move on.
Waaah waaah our profits aren't big enough! I mean, they're still growing and all, but we want it faster and NOW! Waaaah!
MP1st managed to get our hands on Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined months before it releases, and here's our hands-on preview!
