Square Enix

Square Enix, formerly known as Squaresoft, is a Japanese video game-making company known for its Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts and Dragon Quest franchises, created by the merge of Squaresoft and Enix in 2003; before its merge with Enix, Squaresoft was noted for making Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars. Square Enix recently made Mario Hoops 3-on-3 for the Nintendo DS; and made Itadaki Street DS, another game for the DS exclusive to Japan. Interestingly, both of these DS games are crossovers between the Mario series and one of Square's franchises (Final Fantasy in the former's case, and Dragon Quest in the latter). Square Enix recently developed Mario Sports Mix, the first Mario spin-off from the company to be made for the Wii. The game includes the same Final Fantasy characters who appeared in Mario Hoops 3-on-3, as well as Slime, one of the Dragon Quest characters who appeared in Itadaki Street DS.