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Reckoning Diary: It’s Hard to Make a Good Tutorial for an RPG

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning has just been released by developers 38 Studios and Big Huge Games, with the help of publisher Electronic Arts.  The game’s opening segments are already well known by plenty of players, however, as they were part of the free demo that appeared for the title across the PC, Pla...

7 February 2012
10:20 GMT

Dragon’s Dogma Gets Impressive Story Trailer

Capcom has deployed a fresh trailer for its upcoming Dragon’s Dogma fantasy role playing game, this time focusing on the story and the unique conflict between the player character and a dragon who literally stole his heart.Dragon’s Dogma is Capcom’s take on Western medieval fantasy RPGs, like The El...

4 February 2012
00:30 GMT

Final Fantasy XIII-2 Gets New Details About Story and Time Traveling Mechanic

Final Fantasy XIII-2 is getting ready for its release early next year, so Square Enix, its developer, has started talking about its various special features, and how the new game will try to build upon the legacy of the first XIII, which wasn’t that well received when it first came out.We’ve already seen ...

20 December 2011
20:11 GMT

BioWare Knows People Want Another Mass Effect After Third Game

Mass Effect 3 is getting ready to be released next March by BioWare and Electronic Arts, but the studio knows that fans of the role playing shooter series want the series to continue well after the third title.Mass Effect games have proved that the traditional third person shooter experience can be combined with clas...

5 December 2011
05:49 GMT

Torchlight 2 Pushed Back to Ensure a Quality Experience

Runic Games, the studio behind the very successful and highly pirated Torchlight, has confirmed that the sequel, Torchlight 2, won't be making its intended release scheduled of late 2011, because the teams wants to properly polish the experience and avoid the very crowded holiday season.Torchlight impressed thro...

18 November 2011
03:20 GMT

First Image of BioWare's New Franchise Shows Off Desert Crash

BioWare is expected to present a new project at the 2011 Spike TV Video Game Awards but the first official screenshot of this new "franchise" has now been revealed.The EA BioWare label was created earlier this year to oversee all of Electronic Arts studios that handled role playing games, so when we heard last week t...

8 November 2011
10:21 GMT

Krater Top-Down RPG Announced by Fatshark

Fatshark, the Swedish developer of hit downloadable games like Bionic Commando Rearmed 2, Hamilton's Great Adventures or Lead and Gold: Gangs of the Wild West, has announced a brand new project in the form of Krater, a dungeon crawler with a top-down perspective.The project was planned by Fatshark for quite some...

4 November 2011
12:21 GMT

Borderlands 2 Has Smarter AI, Better User Interface on PC

Borderlands 2 was confirmed last month but already its developer, Gearbox Software, has started revealing lots of important details about the title and how it's going to improve on the quite popular original, especially through smarter enemies or a better design of the user interface on the PC.Borderlands deligh...

9 September 2011
03:22 GMT

Mass Effect 3 Has More Action Adventure Features, Keeps RPG Mechanics

BioWare has once again talked about its upcoming Mass Effect 3 title, and how it will try to strike a perfect balance between offering a fun, action-adventure experience, through its third-person shooter mechanics, but also a deep role-playing narrative, where players can customize various things and feel they'r...

25 July 2011
15:51 GMT

Mass Effect 3 Has Rich RPG Aspects Despite Streamlining

Mass Effect 3, the upcoming sci-fi title from developer BioWare, will have quite a lot of role-playing game aspects, despite last week's statements from its publisher, Electronic Arts, which said that the title is going to be streamlined in terms of gameplay as opposed to the first two ones. Mass Effect 3, af...

9 May 2011
03:55 GMT

Dragon Age II Patch 1.02 Live for Mac OS X

Dragon Age II, the immensely popular role-playing video game developed by Bioware's Edmonton studios, has reached version 1.02 through a patch released by the developers to include tons of tweaks and enhancements, as well as numerous bug fixes. Published by Electronic Arts, Dragon Age II is the second major g...

13 April 2011
08:34 GMT

The Witcher 2 Developer Details Monsters and Bosses

The senior producer of The Witcher 2, Tomasz Gop, talked recently about the new monsters and the boss battles that will be in the upcoming role-playing game, which is currently being polished up by the team at CD Projekt Red. The original Witcher impressed lots of players with its interesting story and the deep ro...

14 February 2011
02:30 GMT

Witcher 2 Will Take a Long Time to Complete, Has Characters from the Books

The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings will take quite a long time to complete, especially if you factor in the side quests, according to its senior producer, Tomasz Gop, who also revealed that a lot of characters from the Witcher book series are going to appear in the new game. The Witcher 2 is set to really take the ...

9 February 2011
03:45 GMT

Demon's Souls Successor, Dark Souls, Gets First Details, Appears on PS3 and Xbox 360

Dark Souls, previously known as Project Dark, has finally been detailed, and will be the spiritual sequel to 2009's Demon's Souls.Hardcore role-playing game fans were thrilled when Demon's Souls appeared for the PlayStation 3 back in 2009, as the title offered one of the most intense and challenging ex...

3 February 2011
03:50 GMT

$50 Pack Christmas Giveaway

For all MMORPG fans, IGG has teamed up with Softpedia to give you a $50 value pack absolutely free of charge. The name of the game is Dreamland Online, the latest title from IGG, and the loot consists of a set of useful items, worth $50, available in the Item Mall of the game. The giveaway event starts December 20th...

30 December 2010
12:41 GMT

Download Infinity Blade 1.1 for iOS - Free Update

Last week, Softpedia informed the masses that Chair Entertainment’s Infinity Blade, a new sword fighting action game developed exclusively for iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad, was getting its first add-on. The DLC in question has arrived on the iTunes App Store. Infinity Blade is currently the top grossing titl...

21 December 2010
05:41 GMT

Mass Effect 3 Will Be a Big Success, BioWare Says

Barely has BioWare revealed the existence of Mass Effect 3, and the studio has already begun hyping up the new role playing game that is set to appear at the end of next year. By far one of the biggest announcements from last weekend's Spike TV Video Game Awards was the existence of Mass Effect 3, the last ch...

16 December 2010
17:21 GMT

Free Infinity Blade Update to Arrive Next Week

Infinity Blade, a new sword fighting action game developed exclusively for iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad, is getting its first add-on next week, according to Chair Entertainment’s Donald Mustard. Infinity Blade is currently the top grossing title in the iTunes App Store.The Epic-owned development studio is repor...

15 December 2010
10:20 GMT

Nuclear Dawn Interview

Since Nuclear Dawn has been announced for release in the first quarter of 2011, we've decided it would be a great idea to give you some new insight into what the game would be all about and so we've directed a couple of questions towards the development team. As you are well aware, Nuclear Dawn will no l...

11 December 2010
07:17 GMT

Fallout: New Vegas Diary - Side Quests and Distractions

Fallout: New Vegas has just been developed by Obsidian and published by Bethesda for the PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, being the latest installment in the post apocalyptic role playing game franchise.While the game has been criticized for its many glitches, I want to praise it for the huge amount of side quests ava...

29 October 2010
06:16 GMT

Medal of Honor – The Best and the Worst

Medal of Honor is the new first person shooter from developers Danger Close and DICE and publisher Electronic Arts, taking the player to the battlefields of Afghanistan and putting him in the dessert combat boots of a variety of characters that engage the Taliban after the events of September 11, 2001.The section of ...

21 October 2010
18:41 GMT

Mass Effect 2 PS3 Introductory Module Teased by Bioware Execs

Mass Effect 2, one of this year's biggest RPGs, is preparing to make its way onto the PlayStation 3, after achieving critical and sales success on the PC and Xbox 360, so its development studio, BioWare, has already begun detailing some of its aspects.Mass Effect 2 was published by EA at the beginning of the yea...

4 October 2010
02:32 GMT

Zubo Unlockables (DS)

Zubo is a rhythm action video game which was developed by Electronic Arts'EA Bright Light Studios exclusively for the Nintendo DS portable console. The game was released first in Europe, on October 3, 2008, then in Australia, on October 21, in Japan on January 22, 2009 and, finally, in North America, on Marc...

21 September 2010
09:38 GMT

Tales of Fantasy: Eight Final Classes Unveiled

Most online RPG fans usually stick to a single class from the moment they start the game and all the way to the end, mostly because they've already encountered similar warriors in other titles. From the paladin to the druid and sorcerer, there are only a limited number of options that game developers can exploit...

4 June 2010
14:01 GMT

Tales of Fantasy: New Content Released for Open Beta

The IGG development team for Tales of Fantasy has worked long and hard to fix the reported bugs from the open beta test phase of the online role playing game. It would appear that they have made significant improvements thanks to those that reported the problems and now they are confident that the open beta is even ...

1 June 2010
08:31 GMT

Alpha Protocol Will Use Uniloc DRM

Alpha Protocol has been much delayed, but it seems that the spy-oriented, role-playing action hybrid will be launched on May 28 in Europe and three days later in the United States. And, now, SEGA, the publisher of the video-game, has announced that it plans to use the Uniloc Digital Rights Management solution in orde...

15 April 2010
08:58 GMT

Dragon Age: The Awakening – End Game Blues and Amaranthine

The Awakening could have been a longer expansion but, most importantly, it needed to be a more complete expansion. After three playthroughs of the initial Origins, I pretty much expected to see another implementation of the traditional BioWare structure, with Vigil's Keep as introduction and hub, a wood, a marsh...

1 April 2010
17:41 GMT

Dragon Age Sequel Potential Is Infinite

How fast can BioWare create and launch videogames? In November 2009, the company released Dragon Age: Origins, an old school role playing experience set in a new fantasy world. In February 2010, the outfit put out Mass Effect 2, a more action-oriented space-based role playing game.In March, it launched The Awakening,...

23 March 2010
15:21 GMT

The Lord of the Rings: War in the North Coming in 2011

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, as the publisher, and Snowblind Studios, as the developer, have announced The Lord of the Rings: War in the North, a mix between role playing and action that will be built around the multiplayer experience. The launch date for the game is set for 2011 and will arrive on the Xbo...

22 March 2010
15:21 GMT

Hunted: The Demon's Forge to Be Published by Bethesda

Bethesda Softworks, the videogame-oriented arm of ZeniMax Media, and inXile Entertainment, an independent developer, have announced that the play to work together to launch Hunted: The Demon's Forge, a new cooperatively enabled fantasy action title set to arrive on the Xbox 360 from Microsoft, the PlayStation 3 ...

17 March 2010
04:39 GMT

Final Fantasy XIV Beta Coming on March 11

Square Enix is saying that it plans to launch the Final Fantasy XIV MMO beta stage on March 11, with players who are interested in taking part being initially limited to working on the good old PC.The beta stage will be closed at this time and the number of players who get access will be small according to the develo...

4 March 2010
07:45 GMT

Dragon Age: Origins Has Satanic Influences

The Bulletin, an outlet, which describes itself as “Philadelphia's family newspaper,” has discovered that videogaming might be a fertile medium for the influence of Satan and printed a piece that advises readers to beware of the games that attack God and Christianity.The main evidence of the Satanic ...

4 March 2010
04:52 GMT

Release Date for Alpha Protocol Confirmed

Obsidian, as the developer, and SEGA, as the publisher, have announced their much delayed Alpha Protocol has received a release date for early summer, with the promise that, this time, the game would not be pushed back. It is set to be released on the PC, the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and the PlayStation 3, and will ar...

1 March 2010
03:48 GMT

SkyZone Brings Asian Gateway Titles to the US

In addition to the top mobile games planned for this year, SkyZone Entertainment, Inc. also announced a series of titles brought to the North American market via its innovative Asian Gateway Program, which enables SkyZone to provide users with games from South Korea and other parts of Asia. These Asian Gateway titles...

23 February 2010
07:31 GMT

Knights in the Nightmare Hints XII (DS)

Knights in the Nightmare is a unique presence on Nintendo's DS. The game could be seen as a Strategy RPG, but it's also a lot more than this. The title is entirely controlled with the stylus, and mixes together an active-timer turn-based combat system, similar to the one in Final Fantasy VI, with elements o...

19 February 2010
07:32 GMT

Metro 2033 Displays Its Impressive DirectX 11 Abilities

THQ's Metro 2033 is just a month away from its launch, but the game hasn't been making a lot of headlines, despite its rather promising features. Based on the novel with the same name of the Russian writer Dmitry Glukhovsky, the title takes place in a post-apocalyptic world. Following the story that unfolds...

18 February 2010
07:24 GMT

Knights in the Nightmare Hints XI (DS)

Knights in the Nightmare is a unique presence on Nintendo's DS. The game could be seen as a Strategy RPG, but it's also a lot more than this. The title is entirely controlled with the stylus, and mixes together an active-timer turn-based combat system, similar to the one in Final Fantasy VI, with elements o...

18 February 2010
05:01 GMT

Aztaka - The Untold Aztec Story

Simply judging by the name of the game, you can assume what it is all about. Aztaka is just that, an Aztec-themed game that sets out the impression of a classic platformer and then proves to be a very challenging role playing game. Citeremis has surely made a great impression with this game especially that it's ...

17 February 2010
12:31 GMT

Blizzard Updates Diablo III's Barbarian Class

Blizzard has started paying a bit more attention to the rest of its franchises, besides World of Warcraft, and, while StarCraft 2 has officially received a beta testing session that will begin sometime this month, Diablo III is still lingering somewhere beyond the foggy horizon. While the game did give the Monk class...

17 February 2010
12:01 GMT

Knights in the Nightmare Hints X (DS)

Knights in the Nightmare is a unique presence on Nintendo's DS. The game could be seen as a Strategy RPG, but it's also a lot more than this. The title is entirely controlled with the stylus, and mixes together an active-timer turn-based combat system, similar to the one in Final Fantasy VI, with elements o...

17 February 2010
02:16 GMT

Knights in the Nightmare Hints IX (DS)

Knights in the Nightmare is a unique presence on Nintendo's DS. The game could be seen as a Strategy RPG, but it's also a lot more than this. The title is entirely controlled with the stylus, and mixes together an active-timer turn-based combat system, similar to the one in Final Fantasy VI, with elements o...

16 February 2010
07:32 GMT

Obsidian and Red Eagle Team Up for Wheel of Time Videogames

Developers Obsidian and Red Eagle Games have announced that they are set to collaborate on the creation of new videogames based on the Wheel of Time books written by Robert Jordan.The two companies are working on titles for the PC, the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and the PlayStation 3 from Sony. Obsidian has been chosen ...

16 February 2010
03:40 GMT

Knights in the Nightmare Hints VIII (DS)

Knights in the Nightmare is a unique presence on Nintendo's DS. The game could be seen as a Strategy RPG, but it's also a lot more than this. The title is entirely controlled with the stylus, and mixes together an active-timer turn-based combat system, similar to the one in Final Fantasy VI, with elements o...

15 February 2010
01:55 GMT

Weekend Reading: Hopes for Mass Effect 3

Mass Effect 2 is a great gaming experience. It pretty much defines being put down in the strict box of just one genre, it develops a nice cluster of human stories to tell and offers a good overall narrative ark that takes the story of the trilogy forward. And BioWare is also promising more downloadable content to kee...

13 February 2010
08:41 GMT

Knights in the Nightmare Hints VII (DS)

Knights in the Nightmare is a unique presence on Nintendo's DS. The game could be seen as a Strategy RPG, but it's also a lot more than this. The title is entirely controlled with the stylus, and mixes together an active-timer turn-based combat system, similar to the one in Final Fantasy VI, with elements o...

12 February 2010
07:19 GMT

Fable III Will Feature Plenty of Violence

A few days ago, Peter Molyneux announced that there was a big Fable III announcement coming our way, and it was one that would aggravate a lot of gamers. The day of Fable III announcements came and went, and, while several game details were revealed, it's hard to see which one of them is the controversial one th...

12 February 2010
03:05 GMT

Knights in the Nightmare Hints VI (DS)

Knights in the Nightmare is a unique presence on Nintendo's DS. The game could be seen as a Strategy RPG, but it's also a lot more than this. The title is entirely controlled with the stylus, and mixes together an active-timer turn-based combat system, similar to the one in Final Fantasy VI, with elements o...

11 February 2010
09:17 GMT

Blizzard Gives a More Detailed Look at the Monk Class of Diablo III

Blizzard may have broken our hearts when it announced that it wouldn't release Diablo III any time this year, but the recently released update for the monk class tries to make amends. The update features a deep look into the nature of the monk, offering a few details on his nature, the person behind the humble c...

10 February 2010
07:18 GMT

Knights in the Nightmare Hints V (DS)

Knights in the Nightmare is a unique presence on Nintendo's DS. The game could be seen as a Strategy RPG, but it's also a lot more than this. The title is entirely controlled with the stylus, and mixes together an active-timer turn-based combat system, similar to the one in Final Fantasy VI, with elements o...

10 February 2010
02:45 GMT

Knights in the Nightmare Hints IV (DS)

Knights in the Nightmare is a unique presence on Nintendo's DS. The game could be seen as a Strategy RPG, but it's also a lot more than this. The title is entirely controlled with the stylus, and mixes together an active-timer turn-based combat system, similar to the one in Final Fantasy VI, with elements o...

9 February 2010
03:05 GMT


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