Square Enix Holdings Co., Ltd. is a Japanese video game holding company and entertainment conglomerate, best known for its many franchises like Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, Kingdom Hearts and many others. The Square Enix is headquartered in the Shinjuku Eastside Square Building in Shinjuku, Tokyo and has over 5000 employees worldwide through its base operations and subsidiaries.
The original Square Enix Co., Ltd. was formed in April 2003 due to a merger between Square and Enix, with the latter as the surviving company. Each share of Square's common stock was exchanged for 0.85 shares of Enix's common stock. At the time, 80% of Square Enix staff were made up of former Square employees. As part of the merger, former Square president Yoichi Wada was appointed the president of the new corporation, while former Enix president Keiji Honda was named vice president. Yasuhiro Fukushima, the largest shareholder of the combined corporation and founder of Enix, became chairman.
In October 2008, Square Enix conducted a company split between its corporate business and video game operations. Square Enix reorganized itself as Square Enix Holdings Co., Ltd., a holding company, while its internally domestic video game operations were formed as a new subsidiary called Square Enix Co., Ltd.
Square Enix is the publisher of the game Sleeping Dogs and its Definitive Edition. After buying the rights to distribute the game, but not the rights to use the original True Crime name, off of ActiVision, the game was named - Sleeping Dogs.