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Jade Empire, the Xbox-exclusive RPG BioWare released in 2005, is "a franchise that's near and dear to us," BioWare's founders said at Eurogamer Expo today. " It's a setting that we're really passionate about, and we still are." More »
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We live in an era of extreme spoiler-phobia. Be it television, movies, novels, or video games, the speedy connectivity of social media has conditioned us to live in fear of ruining one another's fun. We add spoiler warnings to even the most mundane details, even when the subject of the discussion is years old. More »
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Rafael Brown, a designer who now works at Doom creators id but once worked for Mass Effect creators BioWare, has an interesting project listed on his resume: he says he worked on Jade Empire 2. More »
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If you're going to make the move from PC and console epic RPGs to handheld titles, testing the waters with someone else's property is pretty smart smart way to do it. That's what BioWare is doing with Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood, according to the game's lead designer Miles Holmes. The Sonic RPG will launch BioWare's handheld division, which could then explore the possibility of bringing Mass Effect, Jade Empire, and Dragon Age to the handheld. More »
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Microsoft have just announced that the next original Xbox game to be granted a second lease of life will be BioWare's Jade Empire. For a BioWare game it's nowhere near as fondly recalled as some of their other, more laser gun-oriented titles, but it's still an excellent game, especially its take on RPG combat. It'll be made available on July 21, for the usual 1200 MS Points. More »
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The folks at Computer and Video Games recently interviewed Jade Empire's senior producer, Diarmid Clarke about the process of making the game, the ideas behind it and it's translation from the Xbox to the PC. I very much enjoyed Jade Empire and often a game with a very different look and feel over other games will attract my attention more than the latest, most awesome, deserted space wasteland shoot em up game. The gameplay mechanic may have been a titch stale, but the story, missions and beautiful surroundings more than made up for it in my opinion. More »
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For those of you who still hold out for PC ports on games best played in front of your television, Bioware has announced a PC version of their Asian-themed RPG Jade Empire. More »
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So, in addition to working on Mass Effect, BioWare offered a cryptic confirmation of the existence of a Jade Empire sequel in an interview with Xbox Evolved. Here's the quote: "And, BioWare definitely plans to continue the Jade Empire franchise the Jade team did a great job with the first game in that series; we have great teams working on all of our games here. We ve also said in the past that we re working on not just one, but two Xbox360 titles. Enough said ;)" More »
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