In order to combat their losses, Square have three major strategies in mind. One of them is to focus on smartphone games.

Artnia, the Square Enix cafe, is becoming the place to go to for Square Enix fans. They had a Final Fantasy VIII art exhibit in April and starting this week there’s a Vagrant Story art showcase.

While Final Fantasy IV was developed for Super Nintendo, a bootleg Famicom/NES version exists. This 16-bit to 8-bit downport splits Final Fantasy IV into three cartridges – Dark Chapter, Light Chapter, and Final Chapter.

The grand finale for Final Fantasy’s 25th birthday was a Distant Worlds concert which took place in Tokyo last year. Square Enix recorded the event and in June you can watch it at home.

Square Enix has a trio of nostalgic Final Fantasy CDs in the works. Final Fantasy IV Original Soundtrack Remaster Version is slated for release on July 3.

Not to be confused with New Etrian Odyssey: Millennium Maiden from Atlus, Square Enix filed a trademark for Millennium Hero in Japan. Siliconera also dug up a trademark for Hagun Student Council.

If you’re planning to visit Tokyo, you can get a stack of strawberry pancakes and a cappuccino with chocobo foam art. Those are some of the items Artnia, the Square Enix cafe, serves up.

Square Enix shared production samples of the Kingdom Hearts Formation Arts series three which has Mer-Sora and Kingdom Hearts II Sora wading through Destiny islands.

Last year, Square Enix closed the Character Goods shop where Sephiroth was sleeping and opened a cafe in Shinjuku called Artnia which will have a Final Fantasy VIII concept art exhibit.

Square Enix filed a trademark for The Mad & The Monstrous in Europe, which isn’t tied to any announced game so far. Siliconera also found a domain name registration for themadandthemonstrous.com.

Square Enix are incurring an extraordinary loss in an “effort to sort out items not achieving expected revenue levels, through scrapping those items and terminating production”.

Yosuke Matsuda who will become Square Enix’s president in June says he will review what works and what doesn’t work for Square Enix.

The wizards behind Square Enix’s CG artwork cooked up a rather amusing April Fool’s prank this year. It wasn’t a mean tease of a much anticipated Final Fantasy or Kingdom Hearts title, but a real life Raibird from Gyrozetter.

In celebration of what, exactly?