Square Enix is shutting service down for the Gyrozetter arcade game on February 2, 2014. The series will go out with one last Arcadia Grand Prix event scheduled for November and December.

Gyrozetter machines started popping up in arcades last year and were quickly followed by a manga and anime series. Square Enix also released a Nintendo 3DS game, which didn’t sell that well. Basically, Gyrozetter was Square Enix’s experiment with a mixed media series like Level-5′s Inazuma Eleven or .hack from Namco Bandai.

We’ll always remember Gyrozetter for its wild transforming arcade cabinet and this elaborate April Fool’s joke.

http://www.siliconera.com/2013/10/02/well-thats-square-enixs-gyrozetter/

Looks like it's the end of this experiment then.

When the game failed to sell anything like a decent number on the 3DS, it seemed like it was over. It's weird. With Square-Enix's resources, you'd think they'd be able to push a cross-media project better than Level-5. Maybe the whole idea was just rubbish.

The title should have been "Square-Enix shutting down..." Missed opportunity there.

I'm fully expecting "Square Enix is dead to me" comments regardless.