{"id":11179,"date":"2016-11-15T00:22:48","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T05:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/?p=11179"},"modified":"2016-11-15T00:22:48","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T05:22:48","slug":"square-enix-shutting-down-guardian-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/2016\/11\/square-enix-shutting-down-guardian-cross\/","title":{"rendered":"Square Enix shutting down Guardian Cross"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Square Enix announced today that they are shutting down their mobile game Guardian Cross. Square stated the shut down was due to the difficulty in offering satisfactory to all the players.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/review\/review-guardian-cross\/\">Guardian Cross<\/a><\/em>, which was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/2012\/09\/guardian-cross-now-available-for-ios-devices\/\">released<\/a> on September 13th, 2012 will end services as of January 10th, 2017. Square <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/2016\/06\/new-rare-guardians-coming-to-guardian-cross\/\">dropped Android<\/a> support from the game back in March.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The announcement comes on the heels of the release of Square Enix&#8217;s latest mobile game <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/2016\/09\/guardian-codex-launching-on-mobile-in-the-fall-from-square-enix\/\">Guardian Codex<\/a><\/em>, a brand-new title appears from the creators of Guardian Cross.<\/p>\n<p>Sales within the game will cease on December 4th, 2016 at 10:00 p.m. (EST) with end end of the game slated for January 10th, 2017 10:00 p.m. (EST).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Square Enix announced today that they are shutting down their mobile game Guardian Cross. Square stated the shut down was due to the difficulty in offering satisfactory to all the players. Guardian Cross, which was released on September 13th, 2012 will end services as of January 10th, 2017. Square dropped Android support from the game [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[101],"tags":[1397,1808,143,1396,26],"class_list":["post-11179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-android","tag-guardian-codex","tag-guardian-cross","tag-ios","tag-square-enix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/guardian_cross.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6HXYU-2Uj","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10862,"url":"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/2016\/09\/guardian-codex-launching-on-mobile-in-the-fall-from-square-enix\/","url_meta":{"origin":11179,"position":0},"title":"Guardian Codex launching on mobile in the fall from Square Enix","date":"September 12, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Square Enix has announced a new free-to-play RPG for mobile devices. 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