Tag Archives: Role Playing

Square Enix has announced that Final Fantasy XIII-2 will fit onto one DVD, even on the Xbox 360. If you pride yourself on maintaining a bloated, immobile frame, you’ll no doubt welcome the lack of arduous treks across the living room every 20 hours or so. However, those who prefer …

Fast hands, quick shields, cool hats and superior nut kicking abilities are just a sampling of the perks available to Star Wars: The Old Republic players who choose to live the life of a smuggler. Have a look at the other ways you’ll progress as a Han Solo wannabee in …

Even when the Dragon Quest X Online announcement leads you to believe you’ll never play a regular JRPG again, something like this happens, and it fixes everything. Studio Ghibli, the Japanese animation team responsible for films such as Princess Mononoke, My Neighbor Totoro, and Spirited Away, has teamed up with …

Wake-up call, citizen. The world you live in is a shallow simulacrum of the real one, with secret societies and back-room backstabbers controlling how you live, work and think. And now you’ve got the chance to play a videogame about them! Funcom’s action-MMORPG, The Secret World, is gearing up for …

From Software’s Demon’s Souls managed to make even the grizzled old warhorses of RPG gaming cry into their eyepatches and facial scars with its uncommonly demanding gameplay, so of course it stands to reason that for the spiritual successor – Dark Souls, which expands the series onto Xbox 360 come …

Commander Shepard may be a natural leader, but in combat he’s easily matched by the skills of his squadmates. With Liara’s bone-crushing biotics and Garrus’spanty-dropping sniper action, the crew of the Normandy can handle whatever threat the galaxy throws at them.In this Mass Effect 3 combat trailer from Gamescom,BioWare highlights …

Minecraft creator Markus ‘Notch’ Persson is facing legal action from Bethesda over his Mojang Studios’s use of the title ‘Scrolls’ for its next game. Earlier today, the indie studio co-founderannounced on Twitter that (opens in new tab)he received a legalese manifesto from Bethesda’s lawyers claiming that the title of Mojang’s …

Merriam-Webster defines a ‘paradigm’ as an outstandingly clear or typical example or archetype. A ‘paradigm shift’ refers to a change in assumptions as detailed in American physicist and philosopher Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. But c’mon! You know what a paradigm shift really is. It’s what you do …

Legendary Pictures, the film production company that brought us titles like The Dark Knight and Inception, announced their plans to reveal information for their Mass Effect movie at Comic-Con in San Diego this year. The panel, slated for July 22nd, will feature BioWare’s Casey Hudson, project manager for Mass Effect …

In an industry where technology marches relentlessly forward, developers that don’t adapt get left behind. A delicious new bit of tech comes along (like Rockstar’s Euphoria physics) and immediately makes the old way (like bodies that tumble as Tetris blocks) look positively antiquated. We admit, we’re spoiled, but who wants …