arcticstoat writes "Supreme Commander 2 has now been officially announced, but with a surprise publishing partner on board mdash; Square Enix. Gas Powered Games' original RTS game and its expansion pack, Forged Alliance, were published by THQ, who is no stranger to the RTS genre, but Square Enix has previously specialized in Japanese RPGs such as Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest. Explaining the move, Square Enix said in a statement that it 'has previously worked exclusively with Japanese development companies, so the decision to form strategic partnerships with developers located outside of Japan serves as a new cornerstone of its strategy to create games targeted primarily at consumers in Europe and North America. Additionally, Square Enix Group's foray into the real-time strategy genre is a significant expansion of its product lineup.'"pa href="http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/12/2112215amp;fro m=rss"img src="http://games.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp; style=h0amp;sid=08/11/12/2112215"/a/ppa href="http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/12/2112215amp;fro m=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p
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