Square Enix embraces Japanese XBLA

By Oli Welsh Published 28 January, 2009

Crystal Defenders, Yosumin and more coming.

According to 1UP, Square Enix has begun an assault on Xbox Live Arcade in Japan, promising a "steady stream" of ports and original content for the download service.

First up was a conversion of mobile phone strategy game Crystal Defenders, also due for WiiWare and PSN. More interesting to keen-eyed western importers will be an XBLA version of Squenix's cult DS puzzle game, Yosumin, due this spring.

Yosumin is a simple tile-based game in which matching two tiles of the same colour in a diagonal line turns all the tiles between them the same colour. The Live Arcade version is said to feature a competitive multiplayer mode as well.

Translating from the Japanese, 1UP said the press release from Square Enix included the following line: "Beginning with these two games, Square Enix plans to release a steady stream of its popular titles - as well as original content - on Xbox Live Arcade."

There are no plans to bring these games to the western XBLA services yet, but we think it'll be worth keeping an eye open nonetheless.

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