April 20th, 2008
In the responses to the last poll, franchise loyalty and genre preferences played a large role in your buying decisions. So, let’s combine those and see who you think is the most iconic franchise in a given genre, and who best characterizes the qualities you love.
Here are your basic choices, feel free to add others:
Mario […]
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October 26th, 2007
Microsoft has announced new content for the RPG Blue Dragon. The new content features new items through the “6 Treasures” download on Xbox Live.
You can get the package for 200 Microsoft Points.
Via | Punch Jump
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March 9th, 2007
I haven’t played a new RPG from beginning to end in years. They always lose me somewhere in their winding paths, either from an unnecessarily overdone and complicated story line, clunky mechanics, shoddy graphics, or just plain boredom. Upcoming release Witcher though, is one that I’ve been coddling on my buying list for years.
I met […]
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January 29th, 2007
RPG fans looking for a free fix might want to check out Atari’s upcoming Silverfall. Due to hit the US shores in March of this year, the game plays to the traditional strengths of the genre by pitting seemingly opposing sides (nature versus science in this case), fanciful creature versus fanciful creature, and all […]
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January 8th, 2007
It’s almost as though we’re asking for it; asking to be loathed and hated and regarded with general distatse by the ‘outsiders’. The gaming industry may not quite deserve the general pasting it has been receiving from lawyers and politicians, but with games like the following being made, it’s easy to tell why accusations […]
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September 26th, 2006
I don’t know if it was Leelee Sobieski’s brooding wails, Milla Jovovich’s psychotically awful presentation, or the incomprehensibly smug nature of the french catholic schoolgirls at the aptly named school in my hometown, but the topic of Jeanne d’Arc has always been one of personal interest. Joan of Arc, to us Engrish speakers, was […]
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May 4th, 2006
I posted a while back about my objections to paying for Oblivion add-ons and my dislike of MMO style patching and additional content purchasing, after which I was decapitated and burned at the stake by most of my MMO playing acquaintances. I recanted a teeny bit following my adventures in Guild Wars where I […]
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February 3rd, 2006
Publisher UbiSoft announced that developer Taito is working hard for the money on a new RPG for the Nintendo DS entitled, LostMagic: “In LostMagic, designed by renowned art director Yoshiharu Sato, peace in the world is challenged by a new evil force. The only hope lies with the wizard Isaac and the seven magic wands […]
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December 19th, 2005
Finishing good games is depressing. Sort of like finishing a good book. You know it’s coming, and yet you don’t want it to. I dragged this game out as much as I could, and I’m still sad that it’s over. I miss my character, Ysuran, saying, “Let the shadows take whatever player […]
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December 6th, 2005
Final Fantasy is no longer just a fantasy. In a promotional move, Square Enix has announced that FF fans will be able to own a little chunk of their favourite game by way of, of all things, health potions. The gaming giant is scheduled to put their beverage, simply called “Potion” on […]
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