Watch ThinkBoxly Live on Twitch with Chaos Rings III (FINISHED)

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Watch ThinkBoxly Live on Twitch with Chaos Rings III (FINISHED)

June 01, 2015 /
Happy Monday, gamers! The weekend may be over, but ThinkBoxly is starting the new week off with a bang, live streaming hours of Chaos Rings III gameplay with live commentary on Twitch.tv, starting today at 3:30pm EST and continuing all afternoon! Today's stream will be a joint venture between ThinkBoxly and FinalFantasyForums.net, where I am also a member of staff known by the username 'Kirito'. I will be responding to chat on both the Twitch stream (embedded here) and on the forums themselves. If you are ...

Watch ThinkBoxly Live on Twitch with Chaos Rings III (FINISHED)

Surprise! Chaos Rings III is Localized, Available Today!

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Surprise! Chaos Rings III is Localized, Available Today!

May 29, 2015 /
It was almost a year ago that we got our first look at Chaos Rings III, the latest in Square Enix's most popular series of smartphone games, and a pleasant surprise for everyone circulating rumors that the third numbered entry in the series would be reduced to a social card battling game. Considering every previous Chaos Rings game was localized (with the exception of voiceovers) the expectation was that Chaos Rings III would be as well, however as the months went by it gradually slipped into the ...

Surprise! Chaos Rings III is Localized, Available Today!

Three Things Destiny 2 Desperately Needs

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Three Things Destiny 2 Desperately Needs

May 19, 2015 /
It's May 19, Guardians. You know what that means: Destiny's second expansion, 'The House of Wolves', is finally here. You also probably know by now to expect it to stir up a lot of controversy amongst the gaming community, mixed with avowed professions of dropping the game altogether in protest of one thing or another and those who excitedly took off at least one day of work just to blow through all the new content the expansion offers. Meanwhile, a significant portion of Destiny's reported 16 million ...

Three Things Destiny 2 Desperately Needs

Rocket League Beta is a Blast (Video)

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Rocket League Beta is a Blast (Video)

May 14, 2015 /
In a day and age when the word 'gaming' generally conjures up images of high-budget story-driven experiences, it's easy to forget that sometimes the simplest ideas are actually the most fun—and that videogames can even be 'fun' in the purest sense of the word at all. Such is Rocket League from developer Psyonix, slated to release on the Playstation 4 this summer and at an undisclosed later date on PC. In essence it's just a ball in a big box with goals at either end, but it also happens to be some of the ...

Rocket League Beta is a Blast (Video)

New Square Enix Tech Demo Shows Off Power of DirectX 12

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New Square Enix Tech Demo Shows Off Power of DirectX 12

May 01, 2015 /
At Microsoft's BUILD 2015 conference this week, Square Enix vicariously made a brief appearance to show off a bit of what their Luminous Engine can do when taking advantage of the power of Microsoft's newest version of their popular graphics API, DirectX 12. For a bit of history, in the past we saw Luminous Engine running on DirectX 11-level technology in 2012's 'Agni's Philosophy' tech demo, and more recently we've seen a rough build of the engine running on home consoles in the form of Final Fantasy XV, ...

New Square Enix Tech Demo Shows Off Power of DirectX 12

Final Fantasy XV: Episode Duscae – Beautifully Flawed (Review)

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Final Fantasy XV: Episode Duscae – Beautifully Flawed (Review)

March 19, 2015 /
Ok, quick history lesson: the date is May 8, 2006. The event: the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo, or E3. In many ways, it was a different world from the one in which we live to day. Tablets were just a failing experiment of Microsoft’s, the iPhone wouldn’t be released for another year, and high-definition TV was a new concept for consumers. YouTube was only just learning to crawl, and Facebook wouldn’t open to the public for another four months. Yes, it’s hard to believe, but we’ve very ...

Final Fantasy XV: Episode Duscae – Beautifully Flawed (Review)