Square Enix made a tower defense spinoff with the Final Fantasy Tactics Advance characters called Crystal Defenders. Now, those Hume Soldiers and Seeq Beserkers are charging into Puzzle & Dragons.

Gungho Online Entertainment’s Puzzle Quest meets Pokémon game is getting Moogles, apparently.

Square’s tactical-defense game is now on every major platform.

Square Enix has a ton of iPhone games and some of these, like Chaos Rings, are being upscaled for the iPad.

The RPG juggernaut is porting Crystal Defenders, their Final Fantasy Tactics A2 themed tower defense game, to the PSP.

So, that Vanguard Storm trademark wasn’t for a Square Enix action game. It’s a subtitle for a Crystal Defenders sequel. Crystal Defenders: Vanguard Storm is also a defense game, but not a tower defense game. Vanguard Storm is a monster blocking game.   Monsters move from the left side of the screen to the right. [...]

The world is in danger, maybe, but there isn’t time for Square Enix to tell us why. Crystal Defenders skips the story and jumps right into waves of crystal hungry monsters. Bare bones presentation, I know. This was originally a mobile phone game and Square Enix reused assets from Final Fantasy Tactics A2 so I [...]

Any minute now Crystal Defenders is going to pop on Xbox Live. Surprisingly, Square Enix’s tower defense game got a simultaneous release on Japan’s PlayStation Store as well.   Overseas Crystal Defenders for PlayStation 3 costs 900 yen or about $9.15 in greenbacks. That’s a tiny bit cheaper than the Xbox 360 version which is [...]

Crystal Defenders R1 and R2 are live downloads on WiiWare in Japan. We’ve been following both releases expecting a North American launch any Monday now. Instead the Tose programmed Xbox Live Arcade version comes out in North America first. We get it on Wednesday.   Unlike the WiiWare Crystal Defenders series this is a direct [...]

While not as exciting as the Final Fantasy IV: The After Years news, the ESRB also leaked Crystal Defenders R1 and Crystal Defenders R2 will arrive on North American Wiis in the future. Shocked right? Since Crystal Defenders for the Xbox 360/PlayStation 3 was already heading overseas it seemed logical Square Enix would bring the [...]

Square Enix is releasing Crystal Defenders in episodes. Crystal Defenders R2, a continuation of the Final Fantasy Tactics themed tower defense game comes out in Japan for WiiWare on February 24. New classes like the Hunter, Berserker, and Flintlock make an appearance here while other jobs like the White Monk are out of the picture. [...]

You didn’t think Square Enix would pass on releasing Crystal Defenders here did you? Of course not!  It’s still nice to have some kind of confirmation even though it isn’t from the desk of Square Enix USA.   The ESRB just rated Crystal Defenders, the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of it, giving it [...]

No surprise here since screenshots of Yosumin were leaked and Crystal Defenders was officially announced today. Now that the cat is out of the bag Square Enix set a target for Yosumin Live – this spring and you can bet that won’t just be for Japan.   These two games are the beginning of Square [...]

If you only have one console the choice is easy, the console you own. However, Crystal Defenders is coming out for three consoles and not every version is equal.   Next week Crystal Defenders R1 comes out for WiiWare in Japan. For 1,000 Wii Points you get the Final Fantasy Tactics themed tower defense game [...]