Nintendo to publish and distribute three Square Enix games

Nintendo and Square Enix issued a joint press release today detailing Nintendo's plans to publish Square Enix's upcoming GameCube and Game Boy Advance games. Under the agreement, Nintendo of America will handle the publishing and distribution of Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles for the GameCube and both Final Fantasy Tactics Advance and Sword of Mana for the Game Boy Advance. Sword of Mana is the US name for the recently-revealed RPG, Shinyaku Seiken Densetsu.

All three games are scheduled for release in North America this year, with European releases to follow. We expect to see more of all three games at next month's E3.