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Reckon With Some of Kingdoms of Amalur's Concept Art (Sorry)

Luke Plunkett — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:00:00 EST

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With the game out this week, now's as good a time as any to look at some concept art from Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning. More »

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning Leveled Up Considerably During the Review Process

Mike Fahey — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:00:00 EST

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Now that we've put the ever-questing of Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning through its paces, it's time to see how it fared in the face of the assembled game critics. As far as I can deduce, it's either horrible or the best thing ever. More »

Reckoning's Launch Trailer Should Prompt Much Chest-Beating

Pierre Bienaimé — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:00:00 EST

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You can't help but feel the inspiration watching this Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning launch trailer. The diehard voice-over does well to remind viewers that once this game drops on Feb. 7, fate will be theirs to write. More »

I See a Faster Fable in the The Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning Demo

Nick Vannucci — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:15:00 EST

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You get exclusive items for Mass Effect 3 if you play the demo of Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, but that shouldn't be the only reason you play it. From the demo, Reckoning looks like it could be a fairly entertaining and worth-while RPG. If you played Fable and thought, "Man, this combat is too slow!" then Reckoning deserves your attention. More »

"Fans say 'I want something new,' but clearly they want the same thing with less suck."

Brian Crecente — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 10:00:00 EST

The lead designer behind The Elder Scrolls III and IV, the creator of Morrowind and Oblivion wants nothing to do with the latest entry in the storied franchise. More »

You Sell Those Kingdoms of Amalur, Ken Rolston

Mike Fahey — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 13:00:00 EDT

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Legendary The Elder Scrolls designer Ken Rolston proves himself one amazing combination thespian and salesman during his Gamescom presentation of Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning. It's "an enemy-pounding fun-fest!" More »

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning Is Your Crazy EA Game of Next February

Stephen Totilo — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 11:55:00 EDT

Mega-publisher EA tends to publish interesting, unsafe bets in February. In 2009, they released Dante's Inferno; in 2010, Bulletstorm. Today the company said Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, a promising single-player action RPG of unusual pedigree, will hit Feb 7, 2012. More »

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning Looks Like "Fable For Grown-Ups"

Luke Plunkett — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 17:00:00 EDT

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I don't mean that Fable is for kids. I just mean that this game is giving off a very Fable vibe with its colour palette, magic and designs. Only, instead of cute people with big boots, there are angry knights stabbing anything that moves. More »

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning Is A Dead RPG Revived With the Spirit of Tekken and Call of Duty

Michael McWhertor — Mon, 30 May 2011 12:00:00 EDT

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"Combat!" That's the thing that differentiates 38 Studios and Big Huge Games' Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning from your typical role-playing game fare, says the game's lead designer. It's the primal stuff extracted from games like God of War, Tekken and Call of Duty and injected into this high fantasy world. More »

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning Could Be 2012's Sleeper Hit

Brian Crecente — Thu, 26 May 2011 13:00:00 EDT

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Everything about Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning seems designed to lose my interest. There's the title, the high fantasy setting, the silly race names. The entire game seems like a pastiche of all of the action role-playing titles that came before it. More »

A Five Minute Guided Tour of Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning

Mike Fahey — Thu, 12 May 2011 16:00:00 EDT

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If you've not seen this walkthrough video of 38 Studios and Big Huge Games' Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, you might have the impression that this is a generic action RPG. Once you see the video you'll definitely have that impression. More »

Our First Peek At Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning Gameplay Looks Vaguely Familiar

Mike Fahey — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:00:00 EDT

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Curt Schilling's 38 Studios pulled together some of the biggest names in fantasy to create Kingdom of Amalur: Reckoning, so it should come as no surprise that the game in motion looks like several excellent fantasy role-playing games rolled into one. More »

Spawn Creator Todd McFarlane (With Friend) At Comic-Con

Michael McWhertor — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:00:00 EDT

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning creative contributor and Spawn creator Todd McFarlane poses with a Troll before the 38 Studios game panel at Comic-Con 2010. Todd says "You can bludgeon your younger brother with it." Neat! More »

First Reckoning Screens And Trailer Look Very Promising

Mike Fahey — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:00:00 EDT

The teaser trailer and first screenshots from 38 Studios' newly-named Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning are here, and we definitely like what we're seeing so far. More »

38 Studios Saves Big Huge Games

Mike Fahey — Wed, 27 May 2009 10:40:00 EDT

Troubled real-time strategy and role-playing developer Big Huge Games lives on, with Curt Schilling's 38 Studios stepping up at the last moment for a late game save. More »

What Were Big Huge Games Working On (And Have They Found A Buyer)?

Luke Plunkett — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 09:00:00 EDT

Big Huge Games used to be THQ's baby. Now they're on the chopping block. What got them to that stage? Maybe it was these two games, recently canned, that the company were working on. More »

An Idea of How Large the Big Huge Layoffs Were

Owen Good — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 12:00:00 EDT

An anonymous tipster representing himself as an ex-Big Huge Games employee advised us to compare the studio's current team page with a cached version and count up the missing men and women. More »

Big Layoffs At Big Huge Games

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 08:30:00 EDT

Hasn't been a good couple of weeks for Rise of Nations developers Big Huge Games. First they were threatened with closure. Now, according to Develop, there have been a "huge number of layoffs". More »

THQ Cuts Down Big Huge Games, Lets Go Two More

Michael McWhertor — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:20:34 EDT

Publisher THQ announced in February that it would be cutting back substantially, axing jobs and shuttering studios after losing $191.8 million last quarter. Today, we learn that developer Big Huge Games is due to close. More »

Source: Leaked "Crucible" Is Oblivion Designer's New Console RPG

Michael McWhertor — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 22:40:16 EDT

Sega's denial to MTV Multiplayer earlier today that it was publishing the game seen in the leaked Crucible video that spilled out of the Intellisponse fiasco sounds legit, according to a source. We've been told that that clip has nothing to do with Sega's ~~game~~ trademark of a similar name, but is instead the work of developer Big Huge Games and Oblivion designer Ken Rolston. The former Elder Scrolls designer joined Big Huge Games last year to work on a "strikingly original" console RPG due to be published by THQ in 2009. More »

Age of Empires III - The Asian Dynasties Video

Mark Wilson — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 16:00:25 EDT

Age of Empires Goes To Asia, Wacky RTS Misadventures Ensue

Michael McWhertor — Fri, 18 May 2007 20:20:01 EDT

Microsoft announced today that the hugely popular Age of Empires III is getting the expansion treatment, again, with the fall release of Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties. In development at Rise of Nations developer Big Huge Games—as the AoE III team at Ensemble Studios slaves away on Halo Wars—the expansion will provide "new gameplay elements" and a chance to experience unspecified Asian civilizations. More »

THQ Teams With BHG For RPG

Mike Fahey — Fri, 04 May 2007 16:20:46 EDT

Big Huge Games, the new home of Elder Scrolls designer Ken Rolston (seen at right, rockin' that beret), is teaming up with publisher THQ to develop Rolston's new RPG epic. At least I'm pretty sure it'll be an epic. You don't really hear people announcing insignificant in the grand scheme of things RPG titles very often. "You'll believe your eyes...on a scale quite imaginable!" We'll go with epic. More »

Oblivion Lead Jumps Ship To Big Huge Games

Michael McWhertor — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 16:40:29 EST

Elder Scrolls designer, beret fetishist, and dude responsible for contributing to dozens of pen-and-paper RPGs Ken Rolston has joined the team over at Big Huge Games, ready to work on the developer's next role-playing title. More »