“Epic Quest” is next for Zen Studios, and it sounds effing awesome. It’s an add-on table coming to Pinball FX 2 (Xbox 360) and Zen Pinball (PlayStation 3, Android, and iOS) this February complete with persistent loot and experience points. This is one of the few tables outside of those based on Marvel properties that [...]
Read more on Kotaku: Bethesda previously announced the Skyrim Creation Kit, which will let PC users re-invent their hit RPG in unimagined ways. There’s no release date yet for the toolset but the publisher’s unveiled a new video that details the Creation Kit’s functionality and intergration with Steam Workshop. Skyrim’s going to get a lot [...]
Japan comes up with some weird, awesome things, and this is one of them. Denpa Ningen is an augmented reality 3DS title that has you hunting for adorable little dudes called Denpa Ningen. There will be RPG style battles and heroics. It should also be noted that the group responsible for this title is Genius Sonority. Their staff [...]
Making video games is all good and well, but the elusive dream for many publishers is creating transmedia franchises. Electronic Arts has gone all-out for BioWare’s fantasy series Dragon Age, with tie-ins such as novels, a pen & paper RPG, comic books, a live-action series, and bags of merchandise (including a messenger bag). Now, there’s [...]
[As originally posted on Japanator] It’s been a while since we last heard of Dragon Age: Dawn of the Seeker, the anime spin-off of Bioware’s fantasy RPG. Dragonagemovie.com has been updated, and we now know that Bioware and EA’s collaboration with FUNimation is coming in Spring 2012. Fumihiko Sori (Vexille) is directing the project, and studio Oxybot is taking care [...]
Not unlike the tentacles of a Lovecraftian monster, Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land has latched itself onto the iTunes App Store (as was prophesied long ago). The Wasted Land is a strategy RPG “set in the trenches of World War One,” in which players are “charged with uncovering a deadly inhuman conspiracy underlying the [...]
A sad truth: it would, perhaps, be all too easy to pen another RPG diary. It’s all about the anecdotes, rather than discovery and learning. I’ve had an itch to start work on another mega-long feature for a while, but I’ve struggled to identify a game I’d like to do it with – I want [...]
Read more on Kotaku: Yes, it’s the most tiresome practice in all of hype-dom: the clip that promotes another clip. Still, Capcom’s been very quiet regarding its Japanese-developed, Western-styled action/RPG so any new look at it is worth paying attention. More »
We’ve already had a taste of Kingdoms’ blank stares and fighting-game type combat in the demo, but a new trailer shows much more of the world, and rather fancy it looks, too. It shows how the stories are told, as well as showing off some of the more impressive locations. There’s some emphasis on the [...]
There was once a time when “Final Fantasy” meant greatness, when seeing Square’s brand on a game box meant you were about to play something special. That time has long since passed. In today’s gaming landscape, Final Fantasy is more punchline than powerhouse, more quantity than quality. After the mediocre Final Fantasy XIII and the [...]