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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

Knights in the Nightmare Hints III (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...

8 February 2010
09:24 GMT

New Server for Magic World Online

Ingle Games, the publisher of Magic World Online, has just announced the opening of a new online server called “Eclipse” that will be up and running on February 8 PST at 19:00. Apparently, this is not all, as they will also be giving away 50 dollars worth of items to every new player that joins the online...

8 February 2010
04:11 GMT

BioWare Did Not Censor Mass Effect 2

The original Mass Effect had to put up with some serious accusations as some of its "heavy romance" scenes faced powerful controversies and were attacked head-on by Fox News, a company that went overboard with its criticism and ended up depicting a very distorted reality. In fact, BioWare's Mass Effect was compl...

8 February 2010
03:09 GMT

Alpha Protocol Gets Inventory Comparison and Another Delay

Some games get delayed more than others, and while it's no Duke Nukem Forever, Obsidian's military RPG, Alpha Protocol, has quite a few missed deadlines notched under its belt. The game was initially announced for a February 2009 release, and has been constantly delayed ever since, at times in some pretty u...

8 February 2010
02:42 GMT

Weekend Reading: Mass Effect 2 – To Be or Not to Be a RPG

There's no denying that Mass Effect 2 is a success. It has sold more than 2 million copies and reviewers loved it. And with a lot of people talking about it being a good candidate for the Game of the Year award when 2010 is done in terms of videogaming, some have wondered how it would be classified.The initial a...

6 February 2010
11:31 GMT

Knights in the Nightmare Hints II (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...

5 February 2010
01:59 GMT

Mass Effect 2: Character Power and Armor Tinkering

If you are in the least interested in Mass Effect 2, then you must already know that it's based around the idea of picking a number of elite companions in order to take on a powerful enemy that has been kidnapping entire human colonies in the Terminus area of the galaxy.This means making some unsavory choices an...

4 February 2010
18:11 GMT

Knights in the Nightmare Hints (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...

3 February 2010
06:08 GMT

Knights in the Nightmare Unlockables II (DS)

Knights in the Nightmare is a very 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 turned-based combat system, similar to the one in Final Fantasy VI, with ele...

2 February 2010
06:51 GMT

BioWare Is Just Getting Started

Mass Effect 2 came out just a week ago, but it already managed to impress both the critics and the gaming community. The faster paced gameplay, the improved graphics and the story that links in such a unique way to the original Mass Effect game have pushed the RPG towards the front seats at any upcoming game-award sh...

2 February 2010
05:48 GMT

Mass Effect 2 Sells 2 Million Copies

BioWare, as the developer, and Electronic Arts, as the publisher, are sending word that Mass Effect 2 has managed to sell more than 2 million units since it was released on January 26 in North America and on January 29 in Europe. The hybrid between a role playing game and a cover-based shooter is available for the Xb...

1 February 2010
13:21 GMT

Knights in the Nightmare Unlockables (DS)

Knights in the Nightmare is a very 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 turned-based combat system, similar to the one in Final Fantasy VI, with ele...

1 February 2010
09:41 GMT

Final Fantasy XIII Started Out on the PlayStation 2, Will Get DLC on the PS3

The game has already been released in Japan and the word going around is that it's a gem polished to near perfection, so its long development time would be explained. But it looks like a lot of this time was spent not on polishing the title, but on porting it from the PS2 to the PS3. As an original design, the g...

1 February 2010
05:55 GMT

Mass Effect 2

The whole idea of interactive media like video games is to make you feel like your existence matters, that you're having an impact on the universe and not just punching in ones and zeroes. That your decisions acutely have consequences and that you get to collect the rewards of your hard work or suffer the conseq...

29 January 2010
14:01 GMT

Record of Agarest War Is a 'Hardcore Strategy RPG'

Aksys Games went all out when advertising the North American release of Record of Agarest War, and while there were barely any gameplay footage or game details beyond the point that it was a JRPG for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, it still managed to attract a lot of attention. With publicity gimmicks like the game&...

29 January 2010
03:50 GMT

Beginning to Build the Mass Effect 2 Army, Archangel Was First Recruitment Choice

Speculating on his true identity, or maybe just enticed by his name, the first character I wanted to recruit for my new team was the Archangel. Knowing only that he was somewhere on Omega, Miranda and Jacob told Joker to plot a course toward the Omega system. Landing in the backwater slum that is Omega, a station rul...

28 January 2010
13:01 GMT

Mass Effect 2 Leaves Critics Nowhere to Go

Mass Effect 2 is now released on the Xbox 360 home gaming console and on the PC in North America, with Europe still having to wait until January 29 to actually play the science fiction role playing action hybrid BioWare created and Electronic Arts published.Initial reviews are very positive, saying that the sequel ma...

28 January 2010
05:28 GMT

Freedom's Progress and the Collectors Threat

In yesterday's first look at Mass Effect 2, we paused the tale just as the prologue ended and we were about to be sent on our first mission. With Cerberus believing in both the Reaper and the Collectors menace, The Illusive Man sends us to the last colony to cease its radio communications, Freedom's Progres...

27 January 2010
12:01 GMT

Arriving on the Shores of North America, Glory of Heracles Is Not Just a DS Carnival Trick

When a new technology becomes available in the gaming industry, everyone jumps at any opportunity to play with the new toy. Whether it's a new graphical engine or a new graphical feature in general, we see a lot of developers trying to make a title with nothing but the new feature as its selling point, and the s...

27 January 2010
04:02 GMT

Mass Effect 2 Becomes the Second Highest Rated Game on the Xbox 360

Released only yesterday in America, and still waiting for a European launch, Mass Effect 2 has already managed to earn a place among the stars. According to both its developer and its publisher, BioWare and EA, Mass Effect 2 has earned an average review score of 97 for the Xbox 360, an average made up from 29 differe...

27 January 2010
03:30 GMT

A First Look at Mass Effect 2

Mass Effect 2 has finally been released, and it doesn't take more than three minutes and 12 seconds to get sucked into the game, play for hours on end and forget that you have to get up early in the morning to get to work, and you thus end up being late. Hypothetically speaking. As such, while there are plenty o...

26 January 2010
14:01 GMT

Death Will Have Meaning in Mass Effect 2

BioWare was quick to show off the fact that the main character of Mass Effect 2, Commander Shepard, might end up dead by the time the player is finished playing him in the new title. But in a world dominated by the save and load mechanic, some fans wondered how the developer could assign significant impact to death g...

22 January 2010
13:31 GMT

There Will Be More Mass Effect After the Third Installment

While BioWare referred to Mass Effect as a trilogy on several occasions, it looks like ME3 won't grant Commander Shepard his well-deserved rest and relaxation. According to Greg Zeschuk, the co-founder of BioWare, there will be plenty more in the franchise, as the game's universe is just too valuable to let...

21 January 2010
15:01 GMT

Persona 3 Portable Is Coming to North America in Summer

While most of us already expected this to happen, it's nice to see Atlus offering an official announcement and setting it in stone. Persona 3 Portable will be making its way to North America in July, and it will feature some new features, compared with its previous release. Gamers will have the chance to play th...

21 January 2010
06:04 GMT

The First Review for Resonance of Fate Is in

It's just a week until tri-Ace's latest RPG, Resonance of Fate, arrives on Japanese Xbox 360s and PlayStation 3s, so Famitsu has taken the time to browse through the game and share a few impressions with us. And if we're to judge by its strict, yet awkwardly eccentric standards, RoF could prove to be a...

21 January 2010
05:31 GMT

Modern Warfare 2 Influenced Mass Effect 2

Mass Effect 2 is set to be released by BioWare and Electronic Arts on January 26 in North America and three days later in Europe, on the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and on the PC.The development team is quick to point out that the second game in the trilogy is set to fix all that was wrong with the first release, like th...

19 January 2010
05:30 GMT

Incoming in 2010: Mass Effect 2

Mass Effect was a surprising title for a number of reasons: it tackled the space opera concept from a videogaming perspective without using an established license, it tried to marry role playing-like character development to shooter-like combat and established the base for a trilogy sketched out in the minds of its c...

15 January 2010
18:01 GMT

Divinity 2: Ego Draconis

Pulled straight out of a quarry, Divinity II Ego Draconis is an unpolished, rough, almost-untouched-by-human-hands rock. It has more sharp edges than one can count and it’s as dense as kryptonite. It’s definitely not a gem, and it’s not a precious stone of any kind, but while you won’t get muc...

15 January 2010
13:01 GMT

BioWare Already Working on Mass Effect 3

BioWare is a busy developer these days. It has released Dragon Age: Origins, which has received quite a lot of Game of the Year Awards and is already getting an expansion in The Awakening, Mass Effect 2 is coming towards the end of January and is set to get a consistent DLC, and The Old Republic, the Star Wars-based ...

13 January 2010
18:31 GMT

Soldak Cuts Price on Dephts of Peril for Mac OS X

Soldak Entertainment has announced that, this week only, it is featuring a special sale price for its action/strategy RPG, Depths of Peril. Through this week only, the game will set you back just $9.99. Depths of Peril puts you in the shoes of a faction leader engaged in defending the barbarian city of Jorvik. You mu...

13 January 2010
06:59 GMT

Mass Effect 2 Has a Lot of DLC Prepared

With Dragon Age: Origins, one of the most celebrated videogames of last year, BioWare fully shifted its attention to Mass Effect 2, the space-based role playing videogame set to be released on the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and on the PC on January 29. And one of the promises the company is making is to deliver meaningf...

12 January 2010
04:35 GMT

EndWeekGame: January 8

Andrei Dumitrescu: This weekend, I plan on reinstalling the original Mass Effect and playing it to something resembling completion. My reason is that I cannot seem to be able to locate a saved game that I can use in Mass Effect 2 when it arrives later in the months and I really want some choices that I have made to b...

8 January 2010
16:01 GMT

Atlus Brings Hexyz Force to the PSP

Atlus has another surprise installed for North America, and it's the time of surprises that come out on the PlayStation Portable. Hexyz Force is an RPG developed by Sting, the same one that is responsible for Riviera, Yggdra Union, but also for the bigger Knights in the Nightmare game. Hexyz promises a lot of th...

8 January 2010
04:11 GMT


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