Neverland Card Battles is a port of a PS2 title that was originally released only in Japan, under the name Cardinal Arc: The Neverland Card War. This game will be joining the ranks of games such as Final Fantasy Tactics and Disgaea: Afternoon of Darkness, both card-based strategy games that were released last year for [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, August 2, 2008
I’m going to start by admitting that I’m not normally a huge fan of role-playing games myself, I can watch someone else play them for hours, but have just never been able to get invested personally. That all changed with the release, eight years ago, of Parasite Eve for the PSX. I spent hours guiding [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Homebrew developer PSProgramer has released version 0.02 of his role-playing game, Uncharted Lands, for the PSP. This second release of the game fixes some of the issues that arose with the first version that was released on July 18 and adds quite a bit of functionality to the game as well. This is definitely to be [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 16, 2008
New information and screenshots have been released for Square-Enix’s re-imagining of the first two games in the RPG franchise. Star Ocean: First Departure will be the first time that the original Star Ocean is available in North America, which will be great news for fans of the series. The story is the same as it was [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 7, 2008
In the days of Monster Rancher, gamers would feed their PlayStations countless CDs trying to load up the best monster, as the game would read most any CD and pump out a new pet for players to train for battles. A decade and some later, Square Enix has taken this concept and applied it to [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 7, 2008
Those few, and by few I mean thousands of people who are eagerly awaiting the sequel to the critically acclaimed Fable, will most likely be clawing to get their hands on the game. To answer this, Microsoft is giving people who preorder the game a great incentive, a game itself, in order to get people on [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, July 6, 2008
The sequel to the massively overlooked RPG Shin Megami Tensai: Persona 3 has been announced for North America. Developers Atlus recently announced at the Anime Expo that it will hit store shelves on December 9th, barely a year after the 2007 Japanese RPG. Persona 3 was an amazing game, which received praise all around from critics. [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 3, 2008
Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift marks series creator Square Enix’s third attempt at nailing turn based strategy gameplay in the world of Ivalice. Preceded by the original-PlayStation-ported Tactics to PSP last year-and Tactics Advance on GBA a few years ago, A2 retains everything that was great about the series, while trying to [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, June 28, 2008
Blizzard, after much speculation, finally confirmed Diablo III at their Worldwide Invitational event in Paris today. The last week or so saw an evolving splash page at Blizzard.com, as it changed from a solid surface to an icy-donut, prominently featuring glowing runes surrounding ominous glowing eyes. The resulting revelation was a fiery face. Fantastic. The game will [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Set 500 years in Albion’s future, Fable II puts players in a modernizing world they were familiar with back in the days of Fable and its follow up, Fable: The Lost Chapters. While there’s no solid release date yet, details for the fantasy-RPG have been slowly trickling out leading up to the 2008 E3 Summit [...]
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