Monster Hunter Tri Review “Jaws, Paws, Horns and Claws”
On being sent Monster Hunter Tri, I was slightly chagrined to discover just how little I knew about the franchise – it is, after all, nothing short of a national sensation in Japan, where Tri has already been declared the country’s highest-selling third-party Wii game to date. Given the title (and the enormous aquatic dragon [...]
Ubisoft Wants To Compete With Final Fantasy
Within the past couple of years, Ubisoft has centered itself as a comparable developer/publisher. That said, wanting to expand its reach, the publisher revealed its ambitions to develop a Japanese role-playing game, much like the Final Fantasy series. When be interviewed Famitsu, Ubisoft’s Alain Corre spoke about the companies general ambitions within the role-playing genre. [...]
BioWare Speaks on The Decline of JRPGs
Japanese role-playing games don’t command the respect that they once had. But, why is that? BioWare, a leader in Western RPG development, believes that Japanese role-playing games don’t innovate, meaning that “lack of evolution” is the reason for the JRPG decline, in both sales and quality. “The fall of the JRPG in large part is [...]
Dragon Age: Origins Review “Age of The Dragon”
BioWare’s known for impressive and engaging RPGs. However, the genre been seemingly non-existent this console generation; there are only a few out in the market right now. One of the many unnoticed problems of this console generation, BioWare has set out to fill this void with its “dark heroic fantasy” Dragon Age: Origins, the spiritual [...]
Mass Effect 2 Dated, January 26, 2010
Mark your calenders, and set your lasers on stun. Because Electronic Arts announced today that their upcoming futuristic, alien-killing RPG, Mass Effect 2, will be hitting stores shelves on January the 26th of next year in North America and on the 29th in Europe. And, as a plan to increase Mass Effect 2′s pre-orders, those [...]
Risen PC Demo Now Available in North America
If you can’t wait for its release. Piranha Bytes today released the demo for the upcoming role-playing game, Risen in North America – offering players a chance to get a first impression on some of the adventures that are awaiting them on the island of Faranga before the game release. The demo is available for [...]
GC 09: Peter Molyneux Announces Fable III
Peter Molyneux announced Fable III during Microsoft’s GamesCon press conference today for the Xbox 360. Months before, Molyneux teased fans that the series might be taking a new direction – seeing that the recently released “See The Future” downloadable content for Fable II teased at that. “I think there’s something fundamentally wrong with RPGs like [...]
Mass Effect 2 “Meet Thane” Screenshots
BioWare wasn’t keen on releasing any details on the newest alien character, which debuted as an assassin, at E3, however, now, that has changed because it’s “Meet Thane” day over at the official Mass Effect 2 website. And you won’t believe who’s the star of the event. “We’re going to surpass the extraordinary gaming experience [...]
Final Fantasy XIII Release Date, Coming Soon
Speaking at a Press Conference in Tokyo last week, Square Enix’s Yoichi Wada stated that a release date for long-awaited Final Fantasy XIII could be revealed in a matter of weeks. Anyway, Wada told the Japanese press that he would make “an announcement in a few weeks”. However, if you look at the stated time, [...]
Borderlands Set To Release In October
First announced way back in September of 2007, Gearbox Software has finally settled on a release for Borderlands – and it couldn’t of came at sooner time. When speaking to Shacknews in a recent interview, developer Gearbox Software revealed that it’s targeting a October release for its post-apocalyptic shooter-RPG Borderlands. “Borderlands represents an important evolutionary [...]
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