"SQUARE ENIX MEMBERS

Final Fantasy IV fans can now visit the SQUARE ENIX MEMBERS site for a selection of addictive mini-games! Visit http://member.square-enix.com/na/ to play Rydia's Mathemagic Minute, a calculation game also featured in the latest Final Fantasy IV release on Nintendo DS. Final Fantasy IV Multiplayer Card Games will become available on August 7, 2008, enabling on-site interaction between North American members for the first time.

The SQUARE ENIX MEMBERS site offers excl..."

"One of the complaints that gamers have regarding the Madden franchise, whether they're fans of it or not, is that the game "...is just a roster update" and never has any new features. Whether that's true or not is another debate that's largely semantic, but something that we can look at and actually analyze is how successful the features implemented in each year's version of Madden actually are. Do the new features introduced in Madden actually stick around? How often do they get retooled? By..."

We all love playing online against our friends or just some random people, but does Nintendo need to improve their online play? According this article, they do. Nintendo Wi-Fi first came out in 2005 and one of the big games that utilized the Wi-Fi was Mario Kart DS. It was introduced on to the Wii later and it wasn't so good, with games such as Super Smash Bros. Brawl lagging for 10 minutes straight (It still happens sometimes). To fix this problem, according to the article, Nintendo needs to...

Siliconera's Spencer Yip had the chance to chat with Marvelous Interactive's president Yasuhiro Wada about the company's co-publishing deal with XSEED Games, and other topics.

Notables:

• Lux Pain, Suda 51's Flower, Sun, and Rain, Rainy Woods, and Arc Rise Fantasia to be localized for North America.
• Marvelous is currently working on an original WiiWare title.
• All Harvest Moon titles that don't sport the Harvest Moon name will fall be handled by Marvelous
• Vanillaware's Oboro Muramasa Youtou...

Gameloft, who publishes and develops games for mobile devices, the DS, and other things, have announced their results for the first half of 2008. As it turns outs, Gameloft has made 50.3 million Euros, that's 10% more than they made last year! Most of their sales came from mobile games which accumulated 94% of the sales, while everything else only accumulated 6%.

The latest game in developer tri-Ace's vaunted Valkyrie Profile series, Valkyrie Profile: Toga wo Seou Mono (Valkyrie Profile: The Accused One) for the Nintendo DS, will release October 2 2008 in Japan.

The protagonist is a young soldier, Wylfred, who harbors a hatred for the Valkyries, who took the soul of his father. To seek revenge against the gods, he accepted power from Hel, the Queen of Niflheim, in the form of a black magic feather. While not too much is known about the title, the...

In Nintendo's quarterly meeting with Japanese retailers, details have emerged on release dates and prices for a few new games that are set to hit Japanese store shelves within the next 2-3 months. There could be more information on the way, but so far, there is the following:

• Wii Remote Straps in September
  • Four colors: White, Pink, Blue, Green
  • Retail for 300 yen each, Set of all four for 1000 yen
• Captain Rainbow to release on August 28, Retail for 6800 yen.
• Valkyrie Profile DS to release...