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We've known for a while that Deus Ex 3 is in development at Eidos Montreal. We've also known little about the title until now, when PC Zone has managed to snatch a detailed report from the developers; it will publish it in issue 200.The developers say that they are really trying to create a game that will b... |
6 October 2008
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Hothead Games is announcing that Episode 2 of Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness is now code complete and is set to be released for the PlayStation 3, the Xbox 360, the PC, the Mac and machines running Linux. The second episode of the Penny Arcade themed adventures will cost 14.95 dolla... |
3 October 2008
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TransGaming Inc has announced Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords (from D3Publisher) for the iPhone and iPod touch. The game has been tailored specifically to suit the two devices' innovative features, says TransGaming.Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords is a blend of classic RPG and puzzle, targeting bo... |
30 September 2008
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If there's one thing that Microsoft wants to have, it's supremacy in Japan. The native country of Sony and Nintendo has always eluded the Redmond giant, mainly because the Japanese people didn't really like its games, which were oriented towards the American public in general. Stuff like violent shoote... |
23 September 2008
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Speaking to Fidgit, Soldak Entertainment's Steven Peeler has offered more insight on the company's upcoming action RPG game for Mac, Kivi's Underworld. The game, which can also be described as a casual, hack and slash title, has players stepping into the boots of 20 character classes fighting against a... |
16 September 2008
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CD Projekt and publisher Atari are getting ready to release The Witcher: Enhanced Edition, a new version of the game released last year; it is supposed to enhance the playing experience and deliver a better game to the player. The update will be free for those who already have the game and a standalone package will a... |
12 September 2008
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So, this is the day that censorship wins. We reported earlier in the summer that Fallout 3 was going to be banned from sales in Australia because the regulatory body for videogames, the Office of Film and Literature Classification, had decided that the references to real drugs in the game, where they were used to rel... |
11 September 2008
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The most anticipated RPG of all times, Diablo III, has been detailed even further by Blizzard, which is offering us as much as it probably can for now, and I must admit we're quite pleased with the level of detail. I am sure nostalgics and skeptics together will be extremely pleased to hear that Blizzard plans t... |
21 August 2008
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TransGaming has agreed to sell BioWare's popular RPG title, Jade Empire, Mac version, through its digital distribution platform, GameTree Online. Jade Empire: Special Edition for Mac includes all the story details, levels, characters and gameplay elements of the popular PC and console title.The distribution port... |
20 August 2008
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CD Projekt RED's role playing game, The Witcher: Enhanced Edition is one of the most anticipated PC RPGs of the year, even though it is an improvement of an already existing edition. So, you might ask yourselves, why would people be so hyped about a game that was already launched? Because it will bring a brand n... |
20 August 2008
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You probably still remember the news we posted a couple of weeks ago about the closure of Flagship Studios and the cancellation of Hellgate: London and Mythos, two massively multiplayer online games. Although this piece of news seemed to have no possible happy ending for the game industry, things changed since the te... |
12 August 2008
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Back in 2002 an action RPG with a great title was launched, Divine Divinity, and it managed to win fans' hearts, even though the Diablo II LoD hype was still pretty high. And that, you can imagine, is a great achievement. However, there is one big surprise related to this title: the fact that it got no sequel un... |
11 August 2008
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Reading magazines, looking at videos over the internet or talking to friends - these were the only ways Europeans were able to have some sort of contact with Square Enix's Chrono Trigger. But things are going to change very, very soon, since the developers have announced that, for the first time ever, fans from ... |
7 August 2008
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A couple of weeks ago, the guys over at Piranha Bytes started a teasing process, by announcing their Project RPB - a working title created by the combination of PB (the name of the company) and RPG (the genre of the new game). Other details were not given, though, so we just started to imagine things that had nothing... |
7 August 2008
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The RPG fans in Japan are already playing a great title from Atlus, called Poison Pink. In fact, the game was so successful in Asia that the developers have decided to give it a shot and release the title in the US, too. However, they wanted to change the name a little bit, to make it fit for the western markets and ... |
6 August 2008
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Demigod was announced a while back, right after Gas Powered Games released Supreme Commander and, for a while, details were scarce on the title, with only one gorgeous screenshot of a towered giant being showed. Now, the game has advanced along the development path and the developers are interested in offering more i... |
1 August 2008
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Soldak Entertainment has released a beta patch for its action RPG title for Mac, Depths of Peril. Although patch 1.012 was released for all versions of the game, it contains updates and bug fixes specific to the Mac version, which is why you, as a player of the RPG title, should download the package and update now.De... |
1 August 2008
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Mount & Blade, the role playing game title that made so many people go crazy several years ago with its realistic horse-riding and fighting sequences, is finally going to be released, after completing the beta-stage (which also lasted several years). The game, developed by TaleWorlds Entertainment, will be published ... |
31 July 2008
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As it usually happens in the gaming world, Europe is going to receive the highly anticipated Too Human a bit later than the North Americans but, this time, it's only a ten-day delay. Yes, this means that Too Human is coming to European consoles on the 29th of August this year (if you don't want to do the ma... |
28 July 2008
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Fans of the RPG genre will be very excited to hear that Monte Cristo Games will launch a standalone addon for their successful game Silverfall. The new title, Earth Awakening, will offer more action than ever and it is scheduled for a PC release this August. Apparently, the game will take place in a new fantasy world... |
25 July 2008
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Everybody thought that Square Enix emptied their surprise pack for the year when they announced Final Fantasy XIII for Xbox 360 consoles during the E3 media summit. Apparently, the company still had other surprises, but wanted to wait a bit more to reveal them. The time has come: Final Fantasy XIII has been officiall... |
24 July 2008
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We must admit that anybody who played the first Dungeon Lords game was not at all impressed and there were even fewer people who were hoping for a sequel. However, DreamCatcher and JoWood have other plans and they're going to revive the Dungeon Lords universe in a brand new game they promise to do right this tim... |
23 July 2008
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Tilted Mill, the company known for the not so great Children of Nile game, but also for the successful SimCity Societies and Caesar IV, has just announced a brand new title which promises to be way better than its predecessor and comes with interesting, innovative features. The game will be called Hinterland and, if ... |
22 July 2008
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It seems that not only the PlayStation exclusives go Xbox 360 (such as Final Fantasy XIII), but titles previously considered Xbox exclusives are now developed for Sony's console. It's the case of Namco Bandai's Eternal Sonata - the game which allows you to take on the role of composer Frederic Chopin a... |
18 July 2008
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The original King's Bounty served as the basis for the whole Might and Magic series and its influences can be seen in the initial installments of Heroes of Might and Magic. Now, the game is getting a new lease on life courtesy of Russian developer Katauri and of publisher 1C Company. The game has no set release ... |
18 July 2008
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It appears that Square Enix really enjoys Microsoft's console, since not only its biggest title, Final Fantasy XIII will get an Xbox 360 version, but the Star Ocean series, usually considered a PlayStation exclusive, will mark its way onto Xbox 360 exclusively. Yes, you've heard that right - exclusively! Th... |
17 July 2008
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We can understand that, once a successful formula has been found by a game developer, it can be used a bit in other projects, but I am totally against calling "new game" a title that is actually something already done. This is the problem with The Last Remnant, a RPG presented as a brand new original IP - it has Fina... |
17 July 2008
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Role playing game fans should be really happy to find out that Star Wars: Knights Of The Old Republic II The Sith Lords and Neverwinter Nights 2 developer Obsidian is working on a new and exciting project, named Alpha Protocol and unveiled during the E3 trade show. Although just announced, the game is already expecte... |
16 July 2008
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Electronic Arts promised that the E3 trade show would be the place where more details regarding Dragon Age would become available. BioWare, which is now a studio fully owned by EA, has made good on the promise and offered some very interesting information regarding the role playing game.The first interesting tidbit o... |
15 July 2008
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The fate of another promising online RPG game is unknown for the moment, since Flagship Studio, Hellgate: London developers, was shut down and all its employees fired. This news comes as a strange surprise from a company which had a promising game in the works (Mythos) and an online publishing and hosting company cal... |
14 July 2008
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Fans of Bioware's Neverwinter Nights for Mac have one last update to download for their favorite RPG title. Sadly or not, "the game that sparked one of the most dynamic communities in the world gets an update to end all updates," says Bioware.The Neverwinter Nights: Hordes of the Underdark 1.69 Update is indeed ... |
11 July 2008
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After the announcement that Fallout 3 would feature more than 300 different endings, Bethesda is again dazzling gamers by saying that there are more than 40,000 lines of dialog in the game. The original release in the series, which many still hold to be the definitive role playing experience on PCs, has less than 20 ... |
10 July 2008
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Square Enix, the developer of some of the most popular console games ever made, has announced the release of Song Summoner: The Unsung Heroes for iPod. Apple's iTunes Store has it on sale now in both English and Japanese versions.The plot says that "from the days of old, Melodica was a land of music, a land of f... |
9 July 2008
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Casual games publisher Majesco is announcing that it plans to bring Away Shuffle Dungeon to Europe and North America right after the game is released on the Japanese market. The role playing game is being created by Mistwalker and AQ Interactive, with Hironobu Sakaguchi, of the Final Fantasy fame, taking the helm as ... |
8 July 2008
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Eyedentity Games is announcing that it is developing Dragon Nest, a new MMO which aims to attract both Western and Eastern audiences with a fantasy story and interesting twists. The new company is staffed with veteran game designers that have previous experience designing MMOs for the likes of NCsoft, Gravity, Phatag... |
3 July 2008
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JoWood Productions, as publisher, and DreamCatcher Games, as developer, are announcing that they are planning to release an expansion to their cult hit Dungeon Lords, with the title The Orb and the Oracle. Byron Gaum, who is Global Product Marketing Manager at DreamCatcher Games, says that "We have eagerly anticipate... |
26 June 2008
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The long awaited, especially by role playing fans, Enhanced Edition of The Witcher is at last getting a tentative release date from its developers, the guys over at CD Project RED. It seems that September has been settled on and, more specifically, the game will be launched in the first half of the month, as soon as ... |
23 June 2008
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Atlus USA is coming with a really interesting game concept for the Nintendo DS handheld: a RPG in which you will have to design your dungeons which will be automatically filled with monsters, depending on the complexity level of your design. Doesn't that sound incredibly cool?Under the motto "Dream it, design it... |
20 June 2008
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Post-apocalyptic massively multiplayer games that mix first person shooter action with RPG elements are really enjoyable titles, if done correctly. Fallen Earth might be one of these - and we're only one step away from seeing it for ourselves.The Fallen Earth team worked hard for the past six months for the game... |
20 June 2008
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If you are a real time strategy game fan and you also dig free titles (now, let's be honest - who doesn't?) you will be really happy to find out that the free MMORTS Dreamlords: The Reawakening has been released to the public! The game is available for download from the official website.Developed by Swedish... |
19 June 2008
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Philosophy is rarely an interesting source of inspiration for videogames and those who play them. With all that, a big part of Gas Powered Games' upcoming Space Siege game decides how human the main protagonist remains while fighting a bunch of genocidal aliens.The game begins as humanity is being obliterated by... |
18 June 2008
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The Game Boy Advance tactical role-playing title released back in 2006, Yggdra Union, will be re-created by Atlus for the PlayStation Portable in order to bring the card-based strategy genre to Sony's handheld, too. The game is scheduled for a September 16 release this year.It begins when the Empire of Bronquia ... |
10 June 2008
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Last updated several months ago, Neverwinter Nights 2 for Mac has just gotten a new patch delivering both fixes and changes to the game. The game is thus brought to version 1.12.1295. The patch (61.6 MB) is a free download for game owners.In Neverwinter Nights 2, you must build a character that suits your style of pl... |
9 June 2008
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Capcom is announcing a myriad of things these days, as it has held one of its events in Las Vegas to present upcoming titles for the next year or so. One of the easy-to-overlook announcements was that Infinite Interactive is now the official developer of a new Neopets game, called Neopets Puzzle Adventure, which is b... |
6 June 2008
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The game Conan for the Xbox 360 should not be mistaken with the recently released MMORPG Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures, as they barely have any common things. Conan was released exclusively for next-gen consoles (Xbox 360 and PS3) on the 28th of September 2007 in Europe and the 23rd of October 2007 in the United ... |
5 June 2008
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Soldak Entertainment is looking for testers for the Mac version of its single player RPG, Depths of Peril. If you have a Mac sporting at least 1.5GHz under OSX 10.4 or 10.5, just send your email in and hope you're accepted for the beta. Since there are no requirements other than the ones listed above, I don'... |
30 May 2008
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Another Japanese RPG will hit the PAL territories this year, after the distribution agreement between V.2 Play and AQ Interactive. Virgin Play will bring us the AWAY Shuffle Dungeon game for the Nintendo DS and, even though the name makes no sense, the developers promise that the RPG will be nothing less than the "ne... |
30 May 2008
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It might sound strange or childish, but this game actually looks very promising. Dubbed Venetica, it is the result of the collaboration between Deck 13 and dtp entertainment and, among other things, it allows you to control (or become - put it as you wish) the daughter of death! This role playing game (RPG) promises ... |
28 May 2008
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Best known for their Stronghold games, that have spawned a rather dedicated strategy-oriented following, the Brits over at Firefly Studios are currently engaged in creating a very different game. Where once castles ruled supreme, individual heroes now spring into action as they try to put a new spin on an old genre.T... |
20 May 2008
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Ever since I saw the new King Kong battling dinosaurs, I wanted to kick some dinosaur arse. I am sure the same statement is true when it comes to you and the stuff you'd like to beat the crap out of. Thankfully, since everything is possible in the games world (well... everything except the release of a new Duke ... |
20 May 2008
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