Tag Archives: Role Playing

From Software has released new gameplay footage from its Project: Gamer Rage (aka Dark Souls), revealing a little more about the terrifying tumor spiders, head crab dragons and iron giants set to terrorize players in the upcoming Demon’s Souls successor. Technically, the studio is calling this a ‘trailer’, but after …

Funcom has dropped a new developer diary for its forthcoming MMO The Secret World, giving potential Templars, Illuminati and Dragon danger seekers a better idea of the nightmarish locales and supernatural friends and foes they’ll encounter later this year. See how you’ll be hunting werewolves, dancing with devils, partying with …

Fancy finding out what happens when a videogame shooter takes Marines… into space?? If you can wait until September, you’ll have your answer (spoiler: it involves baldness and teeth-gritting) courtesy of Relic’s Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine. The title – which, well-covered tropes aside, offers a focus on one of the …

Forgive us, but this being a slow news day, we decided to drum up a little unnecessary scandal in lieu of not much else to say about the following Final Fantasy XIII-2 screens. Unlikeits previous, detail-heavy images (opens in new tab), how could one infer anything but CONSOLE BIAS from …

BioWare has announced the date for the first real Dragon Age II DLC adventure. The lazily-named Legacy content will be available on July 26, and offers players the chance to venture outside the Dragon Age II locale of Kirkwall. It’s playable from any point in the main campaign, so if …

Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor Overclocked, Atlus’ remake of the DS original, has a new trailer which reveals that the game’ll be available for North American players on August 23. The game’s three biggest selling-points – higher-resolution graphics, fully-voiced script and another day added to the story – are hard …

Above: Muggy, a plucky securitron with a penchant for coffee cups Old World Blues moves the action into the Big Empty, where players will explore pre-War research centers for secrets to their past, and ancient technology which could either blow old enemies to smithereens, or be a vital tool in …

Perhaps it seems a bit silly to be complaining about how a game will soon devour everyone’s free time, especially in this age where games are mostly getting shorter and we’re always crying about how we’re not getting our $60 worth, but dammit, we’re still terrified of certain impending releases …

Aftereight videosand just as many hours, we’re finally entering the home stretch. Ocarina of Time’s closing moments are indeed some of the series’ best, with a climactic showdown between Link and Ganondorf, and then a truly awesome duel to the death with the latter’s final form. While I may bitch …

There are very few instances where it’s perfectly acceptable to fall asleep in the middle of playing a videogame.24 hour marathonscome to mind, as doesforced prison torture (opens in new tab). Though you may not see it, the commonality between those two examples is that the player has a greater …