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Xenoblade was released in Japan last year, but western gamers eager for a slice of free roaming RPG action have been left waiting for an English language release. While a firm release date is yet to be locked down, Xenoblade will be appearing under the name Xenoblade Chronicles later this year on Nintendo Wii. Though [...]
We don a gigantic robot suit and fling some boxes at airships in CyberConnect2′s action RPG. One of the stranger games on display at Nintendo’s MCM Expo was Solatorobo: Red The Hunter, a third-person action RPG for the Nintendo DS developed by CyberConnect2 and published by Namco Bandai. It’s the spiritual successor to Tail Concert–also [...]
We sample Warlords, the chaotic, downloadable remake of the 1980 Pong-meets-Breakout Atari arcade classic. The 1980 Atari arcade classic Warlords lives once more in this Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network title, due summer 2011. For those unfamiliar with the original, Warlords resembles Breakout crossed with Pong, flavoured with fantasy fiction. Two to four players [...]
Bethesda Softworks recently invited members of the gaming press to Park City, Utah, where the publisher revealed some of the games it plans to release in the coming year. Among those games was Prey 2 — a follow-up to the long-delayed 2006 shooter Prey, from developer Human Head. But Prey 2 isn’t quite the game any [...]
Hands-on with Insomniac’s highly anticipated PS3 shooter. Welcome to the Interrogation Room, GameSpy’s signature pre-release game coverage format. Here, a GameSpy editor (typically one who’s relatively in-the-dark about the game in question) grills his peers for information on a hotly anticipated game — hopefully with more entertaining results than the typical boilerplate preview would provide. [...]
The lead designer of ArenaNet’s massively multiplayer sequel opens up on the future of Guild Wars and the MMO genre. Guild Wars 2 — the even-more-massively-multiplayer sequel to ArenaNet and NCsoft’s smash hit massively multiplayer role-playing game — is coming. And if you ask us, it can’t get here quick enough. We recently had the chance [...]
We get our first look at Bethesda’s highly anticipated RPG. I’ve played a lot of Elder Scrolls in my day. I’ve topped over 100 hours in both The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (yes, dear readers, I know you played more and I’m a noob and I fail and all [...]
Welcome to the Interrogation Room, GameSpy’s signature pre-release game coverage format. Here, a GameSpy editor (typically one who’s relatively in-the-dark about the game in question) grills his peers for information on a hotly anticipated game — hopefully with more entertaining results than the typical boilerplate preview would provide. Ryan Scott. Executive Editor: So how was [...]
Gnarly deaths and cute aliens make for a fun combo in this challenging action game. The Good Lots of creative maneuvers to pull off Clever rewards for killing swarmites High-score hunting is addictive. The Bad Occasionally brutal difficulty Short length. Considering the objective of most games is to keep the main characters alive, it’s rather [...]
Silent Hill meets Apocalypse Now in the latest demo of this PlayStation 3 shooter. Insomniac Games held a community event in Hollywood earlier today to give fans a chance to see and play this year’s upcoming entries in the Resistance and Ratchet and Clank franchises. If Insomniac’s base of eager and excited fans was the [...]