Tag Archives: Square Enix

After its brief stint as a Xbox exclusive title, Rise of the Tomb Raider is officially making its way over to the PC in a couple of weeks time. In order to celebrate, Nvidia will be bundling a free copy of the game with purchases of its GTX 900-series graphics …

Despite talking up its cloud gaming service just six months ago, Square Enix has made the decision to close down Shinra Technologies. Shinra was set to be a cloud gaming service, that would render graphics through ‘the cloud' and create a “groundbreaking experience not possible with today's current gaming technology”. …

A week or two ago, Square Enix went ahead and listed Rise of the Tomb Raider on Steam, though it didn't have an exact release date, nor were there many details surrounding the PC version. Now, things have been elaborated on a bit, revealing a 28th/29th of January release date for …

While Just Cause 3 did launch to fairly positive reception this year, there was one major thing missing from the game that we were all hoping to see- multiplayer. Fortunately, though, modders have come to the rescue and are already working on creating a multiplayer mode for the game. This …

When Rise of the Tomb Raider was announced at E3 2015, many were left wondering how long the Xbox exclusivity period would last. While PS4 gamers will be kept waiting almost a year, it looks like those of us on the PC will be able to play the game much, …

Right now, Square Enix seems to be experimenting a bit with its franchises. Rise of the Tomb Raider is currently exclusive to Xbox, Hitman will be releasing in chunks and now, we know that the Final Fantasy 7: Remake will be released episodically, apparently in an effort to fit more …

Rise of the Tomb Raider didn't have the greatest set of circumstances for its launch. Not only did the game launch on the same day as Fallout 4, which was subjected to overly high levels of hype, but the game also launched as a timed exclusive on the Xbox One …

This year, Square Enix and Eidos Montreal finally unveiled Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, a direct sequel to 2011's Deus Ex: Human Revolution. The game was supposed to release on the 23rd of February next year and a now cancelled pre-order scheme even offered five days early access to the title. …

Microtransactions in full-priced $60 game releases is a trend that is catching on scarily fast at the moment. The latest title to incorporate them is Rise of the Tomb Raider, the sequel to the highly rated 2013 Tomb Raider reboot. In Rise of the Tomb Raider, you won't be buying …

Several weeks following its announcement, Square Enix has decided to retract its pre-order scheme for Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, following fan disapproval. The previous scheme would see customers allowed to pick one of two rewards in five separate tiers. Pre-order bonus tiers were unlocked depending on how many people were …

IO Interactive was due to launch a new Hitman this December, with a confusing release scheme that would see a portion of the game come out at launch, with updates added over time to finish off the story and keep people playing. However, it seems that more time is needed and …

We now know when Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is due to come out. The sequel to Human Revolution was announced earlier this year alongside a début trailer giving us an early look at the story. While pre-orders have been available for a while, like with any Triple A title, we …

It looks like Final Fantasy XV will finally release next year, according to the game's Director, Hajime Tabata. The game has been in development on and off since 2006, initially for the PlayStation 3. Over the years, the game has been through plenty of changes but it looks like fans …

Although the excitement from Final Fantasy VII fans has been palpable since Square Enix finally answered their calls earlier this year by announcing that a remake of their favourite classic title was in the works, it's been dampened by continued references to big changes in the combat systems. To clarify …

Back at the start of last year, Square Enix noted that it wanted to bring more Final Fantasy games to the PC. Since then, it has brought the Final Fantasy 13 trilogy over and now, PC owners are getting Final Fantasy Type-0 HD as well, just a few months after …

Square Enix made the somewhat controversial decision to give Microsoft a timed exclusive deal on Rise of the Tomb Raider, the sequel to the highly rated 2013 Tomb Raider reboot. The publisher has faced quite a bit of criticism from fans over this but it seems that it was all …

Last year, Square Enix and Crystal Dynamics announced the sequel to the 2013 Tomb Raider reboot live on Microsoft's own E3 stage. At the time, we learned that Rise of the Tomb Raider would be launching exclusively on the Xbox One and Xbox 360 at launch but now, we also …

Recently Square Enix President, Yosuke Matsuda has been in the news after explaining his rule for judging new IP/franchises. In an interview with Weekly Famitsu the publisher head explained that he believes that a new franchise needs at least three games before its success can be judged reasonably. “Looking retrospectively …

IO Interactive announced that it was working on a brand new Hitman game some time ago and we finally saw a bit more of it last month at E3. However, it has a somewhat weird release schedule, with part of the game launching digitally in December, with the rest of …

This week on Sony's E3 stage, Square Enix surprised everyone with the announcement of a Final Fantasy 7 remake, something fans of the classic PlayStation title have been after for years. While at the time all we got was a trailer with no further details, some more news has come …

Late last year at Sony's PlayStation Experience event, Square Enix got on stage to announce that Final Fantasy 7 would be coming to the PS4, plain old Final Fantasy 7. The crowd was not impressed, which was probably quite embarrassing for the company but now it looks like Square Enix has …

Over the past two decades, as dedicated GPUs have given us more and more powerful PCs, able to render more and more impressive visuals, we've all become intrepid spelunkers of the uncanny valley. That's the sloped sided trough, where visuals are just good enough to make our brains think they're real, …

We have some new details on the PC version of Deus Ex: Manking Divided. To kick things off, the PC version of the game won't be handled by the team at Eidos Montreal themselves, it will instead be handed over to Nixxes, the company behind several other Square Enix PC …

Square Enix took an odd approach with its Final Fantasy XV demo, for starters, it is only available to those that bought Final Fantasy Type-0HD  and now in an effort to step out of the box even further, the publisher is updating the XV demo, fixing up some bugs, balancing …

E3 was already looking exciting this year, Microsoft is expected to show off a wealth of new first party content, Sony always has something up its sleeve and Bethesda is even joining in with a conference of its own. Now, Square Enix has also announced that it will be hosting …

Those of you who are really in to your stealth games will be happy to know that Deus Ex: Mankind Divided will be beatable without being detected and this time around, that even includes the bosses. You will be able to ghost your way through the entire game undetected and …

The next Deus Ex game is on the way, it is called Deus Ex: Mankind Divided and details of the game just leaked yesterday while Square Enix was hosting an elaborate, strange reveal Twitch stream. The game is set in the year 2029, two years after the events of Human …

Final Fantasy Type-0 HD launched this week, with early copies coming with a code for the demo of Final Fantasy XV. As you would expect, these limited codes are now on sale on eBay and are going for around half the price of the game it came with. If you …

Although expensive, collector's editions are a nice way to show a little more support to developers that you are a fan of, or to commemorate the launch of a game that you've hotly anticipated for some time. They can come with all manner of weird and wonderful additions, most commonly …

The MMO variant of Final Fantasy could soon be receiving mod support, along with Final Fantasy XV cross-over content, according to the game's director and producer, Naoki Yoshida. The development team has listened to the player base calling for mod support and is now working on it. Speaking with GameSpot …