Square Enix starting development studio in US

by JC Fletcher { Nov 17th 2008 at 3:30PM }

Square Enix is serious about courting Western audiences. Last week, they announced that they would publish Gas Powered Games' Supreme Commander 2, a game targeted completely at North American and European gamers. Now, job listings on their site reveal that they're starting a new development studio in El Segundo, California, and that they're hiring staff to work on currently unannounced Xbox 360 and Wii action games.

Listings on Gamasutra's job boards state that software engineers in the new studio will have "a chance to make sure that a studio starts off in the right direction" and that they will experience "the creative control of a start-up but the backing and funding of a major publisher." That last statement strongly suggests that this studio will not simply do technical work for Japanese-designed games, but will be responsible for original designs. Maybe this initiative will fare better than Square's other development studio in the US, Square Pictures.

Tags: action, development, jobs, square-enix

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

CJLopez @ Nov 17th 2008 3:37PM

Holy Fuck!!!! i wanna!!!1 I wanna work with em!!!

Oh man, i'm must hurry with my game development degree!!!!

2 years more!!!!

fulluphigh @ Nov 17th 2008 4:41PM

Seriously? Game Development degree?

Good luck beating out the software engineers and creative design majors.

CJLopez @ Nov 17th 2008 5:02PM

don't need em to

http://www.gameinstitute.com/

Besides, I already have a computer science degree with major on software engineer and artificial inteligence. Well, not that have the majors, i was 1 subject short for bout majors, but because there weren't enough teachers for those, so I'm also considered on having major on computer networks (took the cisco degree)

For the creative desing... well, i'm thinking on opening a deviant art, because i had sometime without doing a thing and need something that takes me back to it, xD