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Square Enix’s Yoichi Wada steps down as chairman

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Square Enix chairman Yoichi Wada has stepped down from his post to focus entirely on the cloud-gaming startup Shinra Technologies.

Yoishi WadaSquare Enix representatives have confirmed that Wada has relinquished that position. He previously had stepped down from the chief executive position in 2013 after starting Shinra Technologies. He wanted to build out that company’s plan to make massive simulated worlds possible using supercomputing resources in the cloud.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.