Q& A: The Man Behind Square Enix’s New LA Studio

While Square Enix has long been an established name in game development -- with Square internally developing its own games since the 1980s, and often pushing boundaries in visual arts with each new release -- the company has not made much of a splash in Western development. That is changing. Fumiaki Shiraishi, who's worked for Square Enix since 2000 in Tokyo, grew up in Tokyo and New York and attended MIT, giving him a unique ...