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Star Ocean: Last Hope Gets a PlayStation3 Release Date

Initially announced as an Xbox 360 exclusive, Star Ocean: The Last Hope finally received an official release date for the PlayStation3. With this, Star Ocean returns to its most familiar grounds, as all previous installments of the franchise have only wooed Sony's console owners. Right from the start, the game&#...

17 September 2009
06:33 GMT

Final Fantasy XIII Priced, Western Date Mentioned

Square Enix has held its long awaited press conference designed to announce the date on which the PlayStation 3 version of Final Fantasy XIII would arrive on the Japanese market. Thanks to a bit of shady Internet work from the people in charge of the web sites of the publisher, we already know that the long expected ...

10 September 2009
16:21 GMT

Final Fantasy XIII Arrives on December 17

Square Enix has revealed the launch date for Final Fantasy XIII through an online add campaign that was initially only intended to serve as a teaser.The publisher is set to put out the Japanese role playing game on December 17 but this date is only for the Japanese market, where the game can be picked up only for the...

8 September 2009
03:05 GMT

No Clear Plans for DLC for Final Fantasy XIII

The entire gaming industry seems crazed with downloadable content lately. Bethesda has put out no less than 5 decently sized DLC packs for Fallout 3, extending the interest in their post apocalyptic role playing experience by about one year.Other titles almost obligatorily get one DLC pack and some of them have even ...

3 September 2009
12:49 GMT

Dragon Quest IX Looks Like a Big Hit

Dragon Quest IX was released in Japan this Saturday and the game looks set to be one of the biggest hits ever put out by publisher Square Enix. Initial reports show long queues where the game went on sales while more than 2 million gamers will be coming up to pick up their pre-ordered copies.Dragon Quest IX with the ...

14 July 2009
02:27 GMT

Storytelling in Games Can Be Better than in Movies

At the moment, one of the biggest debates in videogame development is this: “What's more important, the storytelling or the gameplay?” There's almost a universal agreement on the fact that the average quality of the stories told in videogames is not up to par with what movies and books offer to ...

6 March 2009
16:51 GMT

Microsoft Deal Delays Worldwide Release of Final Fantasy XIII Until 2010

Fans of Japanese role playing games all over the world must be mad. And if they are not yet, they will be as they learn that Final Fantasy XIII, set to be the biggest JRPG released in quite some time in the series that basically defined the term, will only be released in North America, Europe and basically everywhere...

16 January 2009
04:54 GMT

Gurumin Available on the PlayStation Store

If you are a fan of Japanese role playing games (JRPG) and you own a PlayStation Portable from Sony, you probably already know about Gurumin: A Monstrous Adventure, Mastiff's title. The game, which brings conflict and fun altogether, has managed to enter the PlayStation history by becoming the first ever third-p...

2 July 2008
12:06 GMT

Rune Factory Frontier Moving to the Wii

Marvelous Entertainment is announcing that Rune Factory Frontier is coming to the Nintendo Wii. The Rune Factory saga features two other games, both released for the Nintendo DS, and the move to the Wii might prove a big hit for the series, as the game will surely attract more players interested in virtual match maki...

6 June 2008
14:06 GMT

Anime RPG Announced for Playstation 2

You have to love that naive, big-eyed, zany hairstyles and overall erotic appearance. This is what anime is, after all: innocent looking chicks doing some really nasty jobs (and I'm not talking about hentai-like stuff). Of course, such characters will always be noticed and people will buy the games in which they...

9 April 2008
03:07 GMT


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