Get your credit card ready: the biggest sale of the year has begun. Valve’s annual Steam Summer Sale has just started, and it includes deals on BioShock Infinite, Left 4 Dead 2, and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, among many other games. The sale will go from July 11 to July 22, and as usual,…
The folks at Budapest-based indie developer Nemesys Games—makers of the “reverse” tower defense game Fortix 2—have confirmed what many have been speculating: the Steam summer sale will start today. From a press release: Fortix 2 Summer Sale price cut! Fortix 2 will be 50% discounted during the July 11-18 Steam Summer Sale! We are cutting…
Imagine, if you will, a massive role-playing game featuring guns, time travel, and a nasty alien invasion, all built on Skyrim‘s engine, with Skyrim‘s “Radiant AI” system. That’s Backspace, a project that was once under development at the studio Obsidian, I’ve learned from sources. A small team was designing and prototyping the game in early…
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The 15th Final Fantasy doesn’t have a release date yet, nor does it even have a release year, but there’s still plenty of information floating around about the next entry in Square Enix’s titanic flagship series. What used to be called Final Fantasy Versus XIII has been in development for over seven years now, and…
Man, this new Kingdom Hearts 1.5 trailer brings back memories. I can’t believe it’s already been 11 years since Square’s action-RPG first came out. This trailer, of course, is for the HD remake of Kingdom Hearts that will be out for PS3 on September 10 Really, Kingdom Hearts 1.5 is kind of a dumb name,…
There’s a catch. There’s always a catch. Now that the online role-playing game Dragon Quest X—first released for Wii and Wii U—is getting a PC release in Japan, Famitsu asked producers Yosuke Saito and Yu Miyake if they plan to bring the game overseas. Their answer: sure, they’re considering it… but it could be a…
Blizzard has confirmed that yes, an in-game microtransaction store is in the works for World of Warcraft “First, we’ll be testing the in-game store with some new kinds of items we’re looking into introducing (in Asian regions, at the outset) based on player feedback: specifically, an experience buff to assist with the leveling process, as…
Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn, the much-improved reincarnation of Square Enix’s online role-playing game, will be out on August 27 for PC and PS3, then later in the future for PS4. No Xbox 360. No Xbox One. Allow Naoki Yoshida to explain why. Speaking with RPGSite, the new director of FFXIV pointed a finger…
Things aren’t looking too hot for Ryse, the Roman Empire action game and Xbox One exclusive slated for later this year. Our down-under buddies at Kotaku Australia panned the game when they saw it at E3 this year. And now… well, speaking to GameReactor, Ryse design director PJ Estevez paints a bleak picture of gameplay…
It’s Grand Theft Auto V trailer day! Here’s some new gameplay footage from Rockstar’s open world extravaganza, which will be out for PS3 and Xbox 360 on September 17. And while you’re here, why not check out some of GTAV‘s older trailers, too?
Disney helps make Kingdom Hearts. Disney owns Star Wars. Seems like a match made in carbonite heaven, right? As soon as word came out that Disney had purchased LucasFilm—and consequently, the right to adventures in the world of Star Wars—people started wondering what that’d mean for Square Enix’s popular action-RPG series, which is created in…
In honor of Final Fantasy VII‘s recent Steam re-release, here’s a video by YouTuber NEroNeRoNerON exploring some trivia from Square’s classic RPG. Some of these factoids are a little silly—yes, if you park the airship on an island, fly a gold chocobo across the water, and then release the chocobo, you’ll lose access to your…
In what may have been this weekend’s most surprising news, the fine people at NIS America—the publisher best known for localizing Disgaea and other Japanese games—announced two interesting new games for western release. One is a dungeon crawler called Demon Gaze (art pictured above). It’s out for Vita early next year in North America and…
Just a month before the western release of the PS3 role-playing game Tales of Xillia comes news that we’re getting its sequel, too: publisher Namco Bandai today announced that Tales of Xillia 2 will come to the west in 2014 Wonderful news, here. Between this, Bravely Default, and the Wii U RPG code-named X, 2014…
No Random Encounters today—sorry!—but here, have 13 minutes of Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII gameplay from the Japan Expo in France this week. For more on Lightning Returns, check out my hands-on impressions from E3 last month.
In-game purchases? In World of Warcraft? Could happen, says a Blizzard community manager. Earlier this week, World of Warcraft players on the game’s public test server discovered an item called the Enduring Elixir of Wisdom. The item description: “Experience gained from killing monsters and completing quests increased by 100%.” In other words, it makes grinding…
Killer Is Dead is the next game from Goichi “Suda51” Suda, the Japanese designer best known for stylish action games like No More Heroes and Killer7. It’ll be published by XSEED in North America, and it’s out on August 27 for PS3 and 360. Those are the basics. I got my hands on Killer Is…
The best part of Dishonored—a phenomenal game in just about every way—is the Blink spell, an ability that lets you instantly teleport a short distance in front of you. Blink is really, really cool. So cool that we think it should really be in every video game. Witness: See? Feel free to make your own…
Best part of this wonderful video, produced by the very funny folks at College Humor? The blurb: “Microsoft is screwing everybody, especially us by retracting all these policies one day after we filmed this.” Whoops. Still, this is awesome. “Alls I wanna do is be sad and alone in my basement!”
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