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A law court in France has decided that publisher Namco Bandai should get the distribution rights for the CD Projekt RED made role playing game The Witcher 2: Assassin of Kings on European markets and it seems that the developers will not appeal the decision.The Lyon based court says that a distribution deal between t... |
9 December 2011
02:52 GMT |
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The leading executive working at South Park: The Game at developer Obsidian says that the inception of the project was unusual because his company was approached directly by the South Park license holders and not by publisher THQ, as it is customary. Speaking to Game Informer, Feargus Urquhart, who is the Chief Execu... |
7 December 2011
16:41 GMT |
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Publisher THQ, developer Obsidian and the creators of the television show South Park have confirmed that they are working on a game based upon the universe, using role playing mechanics, and now Game Informer has offered some details on how the game will play.The game will use an animated art style close to that of t... |
6 December 2011
03:21 GMT |
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More and more video games are now trying to add multiplayer modes even if they are not a clear fit for the game universe, for example in Mass Effect 3, but one role playing game developers believes that the focus on single player can still create big hits.Ken Rolston, who is the one of the developers working on Kingd... |
5 December 2011
20:01 GMT |
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I think I might be an addict, not in the traditional sense of the word where my neurons are linked to a pleasurable chemical, but I have no other good term to define the relationship that I have developed with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.This game launched on November 1 of this year and I started my playthrough at ab... |
3 December 2011
06:01 GMT |
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Video game developer Obsidian Entertainment has announced that they are working on a role playing game that is based upon the popular cartoon series South Park, which will be published by THQ.Matt Stone and Trey Parker, the two creators who direct, produce, write and star in the South Park series, will be in charge o... |
2 December 2011
08:03 GMT |
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Recent information on Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning focused on the action side of the game but the developers are saying that there’s a full blown role playing set of mechanics under the action friendly exterior.Collin Campbell, who is the world designer working on the game at 38 Studios, spoke to Ausgamers and... |
1 December 2011
06:31 GMT |
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A story in Famitsu talks about a new Square Enix developed Japanese role playing game that will be using the Unreal Engine and will be aimed more at Western audiences.It seems that the game will be using the Unreal Engine 3 to power its world and that development is being led by Ryutaro Ichimura, who has previously w... |
29 November 2011
10:15 GMT |
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The first Risen game, seen as the spiritual success to the Gothic, has been less of a hit than its developers hoped but the team is ready to evolve the concept for the Dark Waters sequel, which will focus on pirates and on naval action.Bjorn Pankratz, who is a leading developer at Piranha Bytes, has stated, “We... |
17 November 2011
15:11 GMT |
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I have reached Windhelm for the first time and I can feel my weary bones aching for some fire and some good drink and food, preferably in the company of a bard and some townsfolk. After some R&R I also plan to visit the local merchants and dump some of the useless loot that clogs my inventory and see if maybe they ha... |
17 November 2011
09:39 GMT |
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim might just be the biggest role playing game launched of 2012 and at least one leading develop linked to the genre believes that this type of game can dominate the future of video games as long as writers and developers take care to create complex, believable worlds.Speaking at the GDC Chin... |
14 November 2011
17:01 GMT |
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Video game publisher Atlus US has announced that it has picked up the rights to publish the upcoming role playing game created by French developed Cyanide that will be based on the George R.R. Martin series A Song of Ice and Fire.The publisher has not offered any information on when the game might be launched but has... |
10 November 2011
13:31 GMT |
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Video game developer and publisher Bethesda has launched a short sequence taken from its Behind the Wall: The Making of Skyrim, which will be included in the Collector's Edition package for the upcoming The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.The entire feature will allow gamers who are interested in the game universe to se... |
3 November 2011
09:26 GMT |
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Video game publisher Namco Bandai has announced that it is working to bring Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch, an innovative role playing game that was only launched in Japan until now, on the PlayStation 3 from Sony in North America.The game was created by Level-5, a company that is well known for the work it has... |
18 October 2011
08:03 GMT |
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Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, the role playing game that will be published by Electronic Arts and is being worked on by 38 Studios and Big Huge Games, will need to compete with the sure hit that is The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and one leading developer believes that his game is up to the task.Craig Krstolic, who is a... |
10 October 2011
03:24 GMT |
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Can the Facebook gaming space support another turn based role playing game alongside the excellent and ever expanding Dragon Age 2 from EA 2D?It seems that the developers at Cryptic Studios and their partners at Wizards of the Coast believe that the answer is “Yes” and have launched the beta stage of Hero... |
21 September 2011
18:41 GMT |
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The developers that created surprise Xbox Live and Steam hit Bastion have stated that allowing players to choose and witness consequence has been crucial to the success of their game.Speaking to Game Informer in a post-mortem analysis of Bastion Greg Kasavin has emphasized the role of player choice, saying, “Pr... |
12 September 2011
15:01 GMT |
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I love video games where I can talk to people and where what my character says has real implication, real weight, a chance to change the way the game world functions and how other NPCs see me.That's why I prefer to experience role playing games like those created by BioWare and it's a nice surprise to see t... |
5 September 2011
10:38 GMT |
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The MMO genre is one of the most successful and fastest growing ones in gaming at the moment, but at least one leading developer says that he has no plans to bring its own franchise online at the moment. Speaking to Joystiq, Todd Howard, who is the leader of the development on The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, has said, ... |
2 September 2011
03:32 GMT |
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Dead Island is a game about fighting off zombies on an isolated island using improvised weaponry. However, despite the focus on action, the developers at Techland and publishers at Deep Silver are saying that a number of elements bring the game closer to the role-playing space.
Doug McLeod, one of the producers wo... |
30 August 2011
03:15 GMT |
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BioWare, one of the most famous role-playing game developers of all time, has shared its views on the genre as a whole and how it needs to incorporate elements from other titles, like shooters or hack and slash ones, in order to stay relevant in this day and age.
BioWare became famous for deep RPGs like Baldur... |
23 August 2011
04:00 GMT |
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Obsidian is one of the most interesting video game developers when it comes to the world of role-playing games and one of the most important designers working for the company says that its future games will try to make players unable to cheat the game systems.
Speaking during the GDC 2011 European event, J.E. Sawy... |
23 August 2011
03:01 GMT |
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Dragon Age II was a game that split the fan base of the original titles, with some praising the changes made by developers BioWare and some saying that the quality of the experience declined when compared to Origins, but it seems that its creators have no regrets about it and plan to integrate the best feedback they ... |
11 August 2011
19:01 GMT |
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Dragon Age II was seen by some fans of the series as a smaller, less complicated video game than Origins, the first title in the series, but one of the leading developers working on the game says that the main principle behind the way the experience was designed was creating degrees of consequence for all choices.
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2 August 2011
16:21 GMT |
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One of the leading developers working on the upcoming Mass Effect 3 has stated that the team creating the game is cramming as much player choice as possible in the narrative of the game, aiming to allow the gamer to provide an answer to all the problems set up by previous games in the series.
Casey Hudson, who is ... |
26 July 2011
05:38 GMT |
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Video game developer BioWare has said that it plans to launch more downloadable content for its mix between role playing and action Dragon Age 2 in order to show fans that they have learned from their mistakes and can deliver improved content.Speaking to Eurogamer Ray Muzyka, who is one of the co founders of BioWare,... |
20 June 2011
17:41 GMT |
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Mass Effect 3 is the action and role playing mix that will be launched late this year in order to close down the BioWare developed science fiction trilogy and the initial reveal that BioWare has done at E3 points to another epic, dialogue filled adventure with more role playing aspects and higher stakes.Casey Hudson,... |
9 June 2011
00:53 GMT |
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The Witcher 2 is a great, great game and most of my reasons can be found in this Softpedia review of the game, but I wonder whether its main ideas and mechanics are the ones that will be able to push the computer role-playing genre into the future.
This game impressed almost everybody that played it with the mix b... |
2 June 2011
18:21 GMT |
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There's not much loot to be found in The Witcher 2 and, while this is not an actual problem for me as a player, it is somewhat of a disappointment when it comes to the diversity of a game that manages to be so detailed and life like when it comes to the rest of the world building.Enemies often wear a lot of equi... |
1 June 2011
18:11 GMT |
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When I first began playing The Witcher 2, which we reviewed at length here on Softpedia, I was not playing on a very good machine and I was forced to bring the graphics quality slider back to Medium when I started the game and even then during some character heavy sequences, like going straight through Flotsam, the g... |
31 May 2011
18:31 GMT |
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Reports from the recent visit of United States President Barrack Obama to Poland are saying that part of the gift package that the American leader received from his Polish counterpart was a copy of the recently launched The Witcher 2 video game, complete with a number of collectibles.
It has long been part of the ... |
31 May 2011
04:51 GMT |
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The Witcher 2 is a game that the gaming world will be talking about for quite some time from now on because it's one of the rare titles that manage to be close to excellence in a number of categories, from narrative to graphics and art design to how choices are handled and combat. It is not without any flaws, bu... |
28 May 2011
16:11 GMT |
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Andrei Dumitrescu: I love The Witcher 2, which I started playing at some point last week and have been barely able to put it down, and this is a game that offers enough twists and choices to justify two or three runs through it, so this weekend I will start a new game. I plan to make the choices I did not make the l... |
27 May 2011
16:31 GMT |
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The Witcher 2 is a very ambitious game and the developers at CD Projekt RED pretty much succeed in their effort to establish a whole new standard when it comes to PC-based role-playing games, but one area where they mostly fail is explaining the game world and some of the mechanics to the player.I was first hit squar... |
26 May 2011
18:41 GMT |
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The Witcher 2 might be the most important role-playing game of the year, but some players might never get to see all the beautiful gaming that the CD Projekt RED title delivers because they are put off by the rather tough battles they will have to get through early on. I detailed my own issues with the combat diffic... |
25 May 2011
05:36 GMT |
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The Witcher 2 is a very different experience when compared to the first game in the series and the changes that most gamers will notice right away are the ones that have been made to the battle system.
The idea of combat styles that was central to the first Witcher is now completely gone and I, for one, have surel... |
23 May 2011
18:31 GMT |
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Dragon Age II launched earlier this year and got pretty good reviews despite having some issues, and developer BioWare is apparently already working flat out on the development of the third game in its fantasy role-playing series.
Alistair McNally, who is the senior director of creative development working at BioW... |
23 May 2011
05:43 GMT |
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Andrei Dumitrescu: I am handling the affairs of the Games section alone this week, which means that my gaming time for the weekend will be the sole focus of this article and I am happy to say that my main game for the coming weekend and more will be The Witcher 2.
The game was developed by CD Projekt RED, a develo... |
20 May 2011
16:31 GMT |
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The Witcher 2 is a cross between action and role-playing game that was created by the team at CD Projekt RED, with the aim of delivering a new take on Geralt as the hero and improve on all the mechanics that powered the original game in the series.
The opening of the game is certainly impressive, although a bit co... |
19 May 2011
19:01 GMT |
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The Witcher 2 has just been released and the team that has worked on it at CD Projekt RED has offered some information on how they designed the game, saying that they were aiming to offer the player as much in-game freedom as possible, while also making sure that the main character, Geralt, is very well-defined throu... |
18 May 2011
09:52 GMT |
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CD Projekt RED, the developers of the now released The Witcher 2, have announced that all the downloadable content that they will develop for their role-playing game will be offered for free to gamers, with the first pack arriving on launch day.
As part of a Questions & Answers session conducted over Facebook, the... |
17 May 2011
10:52 GMT |
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The Creative Assembly, as the developer, and SEGA, as the publisher, have announced that they are working on creating and launching a new video game based around the Alien science fiction universe, set to be launched exclusively on gaming consoles.
The developer has not talked about specific consoles on which the ... |
13 May 2011
03:23 GMT |
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I have just mastered a corner in Need for Speed: Shift 2 Unleashed, which means I got a bit of extra experience for my driver, got a bit closer to the next level and also turned a section of the track I am currently racing on green from drab gray.
A few hours later I will hear a little ding and a gold-covered anno... |
23 April 2011
07:21 GMT |
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Video game publisher Square Enix has announced that it will be launching an exclusive and limited Collector's Edition for Deus Ex: Human Revolution on August 26 in Europe and one day earlier in Australia and in New Zeeland.The Collector's Edition can be pre-ordered on the Xbox 360, the PlayStation 3 and the... |
20 April 2011
15:11 GMT |
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An updated LinkedIn page from a former BioWare developer shows that a sequel to Jade Empire did exist at some point and that the development studio stopped working on it when it was bought by video game publisher Electronic Arts. Rafael Brown is now a project leader working at id Software and information on his work... |
15 April 2011
13:21 GMT |
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The entire concept of The Sims Medieval, the newly launched spin-off coming from the EA Play label, is a bit weird: control a number of characters set in a cleaned up and brightened up version of the Medieval Age while performing a number of quests which range from the thoroughly mundane to the deeply engaging. The ... |
8 April 2011
18:31 GMT |
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Video game publisher Square Enix has announced that Dungeon Siege III will now be launched in Europe and other connected market on June 17, a short delay over the previously announced date, and that the game will continue to receive improvements in the time left. Dungeon Siege III will be launched on the PlayStation... |
8 April 2011
03:22 GMT |
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I am the type of gamer that mainly enjoys strategy, turn-based when possible, and role playing games, from a Western developer mostly, and in a way Dragon Age: Origins managed to hit both those spots for me, with the role playing some of the best I've seen and combat that could be easily broken into turns, with ... |
2 April 2011
07:41 GMT |
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The first Dragon Age was called Origins, mainly because of the six different possibilities that a gamer had when creating the background of his character, but the name was also fitting because it was the first game to use Thedas as a universe, with developer BioWare saying that it planned many more experiences that u... |
25 March 2011
19:21 GMT |
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With Dragon Age 2 now out and played by millions of gamers, the next big role-playing game launch of the year is The Witcher 2, the game developed by CD Projekt that is set to be launched on the PC on May 17.
The developers have shown quite a bit of the game, emphasizing that players will have a lot of choices for... |
23 March 2011
18:21 GMT |
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