Hands On with Square Enix’s New Streaming Service

Dive In is an up coming game streaming service for some of Square Enix’s most popular games to iOS and Android devices. Today at the Tokyo Game Show, I tried out the service on an Android pad. Let’s see how that went. For my time with Dive In I had the choice of playing Final…

​Some of the Coolest Game Merchandise You Can and Cannot Buy

The Tokyo Game Show isn’t only about games. There is also an entire hall filled with goodies for sale. Game companies also are showing off future products that will be out at a later date as well as TGS exclusives. Let’s have a look!

You Really CAN Sleep With Anything In The Sims

It’s like some anti-gay douchebag’s nightmare vision of what same-sex marriage will unleash upon our world. And people ask me why I loveThe Sims 4… via Imgur

This is Shinra Technologies. It’s Square Enix’s new venture into cloud gaming, headed up by former Square Enix honcho Yochi Wada. You can read more about it on the company’s official site.

We first told you about Rakuenlast year, but with the project nearing release there’s now a proper in-game trailer.

so good.

Rock Band Is Finally Dying

Long gone from the retail side of things, Harmonix’s Rock Band has nevertheless lived on for the past few years thanks to the studio’s maintenance of the Rock Band Network, the online community where people could buy, create and share music. Sadly, that service is now winding down. In a post on its community forums,…

League Of Legends’ World Champs Commercial Is A Missed Opportunity

The League of Legends World Championship is one of the biggest prizes in esports. Given the field’s strugglesto be taken more seriously – even as it draws in bigger crowds and bigger bucks – this trailer for the event seems a bit out of place. While it’s a slick piece of production, it also plays…

The Sims 4 Mods Are Officially Starting To Become Amazing

Despite being so new, The Sims 4 has relatively robust mod offerings. Some mods are sort of saucy. Some are useful. And some, well, some are just sort of amazing. Enter the Babies For Everyone Mod, an alteration to The Sims 4 which allows nearly everyone to ‘try for baby’ while having sex. This means…

Microsoft Explains Lack Of Halo On PC

Halo: Master Chief Collection would—in theory—be a perfect point of entry for PC gamers who’ve missed out on the series over the years. So why is it, for now, Xbox One-only? And could that change? Halo is Microsoft’s flagship game series on the Xbox, but they’ve also got that whole Windows thing going on. You…

A Cooler Way To Use Your Phone To Play Video Games

Playing video games on your phone is all fine and good, but using your phone to control what happens on another screen? Now that’s really cool. Oh sure, the Wii U and various other devices have tried similar-ish things to the THAW interface, but its always nice to see somebody throw their hat in the…

Neal Stephenson’s Kickstarter Game Is Dead

Two years ago, beloved science-fiction writer Neal Stephenson launched a crowdfunding campaign to start making a realistic swordfighting game. The Clang Kickstarter notched more than $500,000 towards that end. But a game never materialized and, as announced today, people who backed Clang are starting to get their money back. The game, it seems, won’t be…