{"id":135563,"date":"2010-01-04T11:01:03","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T16:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/2010\/01\/04\/square-enix-wants-to-take-root-in-2010-eventually-lead-entertainment-industry\/"},"modified":"2010-01-04T11:01:03","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T16:01:03","slug":"square-enix-wants-to-%e2%80%98take-root%e2%80%99-in-2010-eventually-lead-entertainment-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/135563","title":{"rendered":"Square Enix Wants to \u2018Take Root\u2019 in 2010, Eventually Lead Entertainment Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><!--Begin feature--><\/p>\n<p><!-- for syndication --><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/2f0a3_media?id=3721680&amp;type=lg\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a new year, and it&#8217;s a time for big dreams. While you&#8217;re dreaming of losing ten pounds though, Square Enix wants  to  use the year to &#8220;take root&#8221; in an effort to eventually lead the entire entertainment industry.<\/p>\n<p>\nIt&#8217;s a common practice for Japanese companies to issue statements at the beginning of a new year. Square Enix&#8217;s message, titled &#8220;Taking Root,&#8221; suggests that video games will soon be competing with the likes of movie studios, if they aren&#8217;t already. <\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;In the near future, the rate of convergence between video games and other digital entertainment content will only continue to accelerate,&#8221; Square Enix president Yoichi Wada said in a statement (via <a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/5439346\/a-new-years-message-from-square-enixs-president\" >Kotaku<\/a>). <\/p>\n<p>Buy This Item: <a class=\"buy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/buy.php\" ><span style=\"color: #33bc03\">[Click here to buy this item]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.1up.com\/do\/newsStory?cId=3177490\" >Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a new year, and it&#8217;s a time for big dreams. While you&#8217;re dreaming of losing ten pounds though, Square Enix wants to use the year to &#8220;take root&#8221; in an effort to eventually lead the entire entertainment industry. It&#8217;s a common practice for Japanese companies to issue statements at the beginning of a new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}