Tag Archives: Role Playing

Paper Mario: Sticker Star (opens in new tab) may well have featured in the 3DS sizzle reel (opens in new tab) from Nintendo Direct yesterday, but this full standalone trailer released afterwards is certainly worthy of a look in its own right. For starters, it uses the word ‘Nyarglebargle’, which …

The upcoming sci-fi RPG from The Witcher 2 developer CD Projekt RED has an official name, and we have some tempting details. CD Project RED announced today that Cyberpunk 2077, aside from apparently taking place 55 years after tabletop game Cyberpunk 2022, will include a mature multi-threaded narrative and plenty …

Get out your sticker album! Many are eyeing Nintendos big November 18 release of the Wii U, but three days before that, the publisher releases its biggest 3DS game of the fall, Paper Mario: Sticker Star. We recently went hands-on with a near-final version of the game, playing the first …

Monster Hunter is known for being an online game. It enjoyed huge success on PSP, especially in Japan, thanks to its online gameplay and absorbing monster hunting experience. So it’s surprising to learn that Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate (opens in new tab)’s multiplayer fun on 3DS is going to come …

The day before Funcom’s latest MMORPG, The Secret World, launched, their CEO stepped down. At the time, many people took it as a sign that the MMO was going to struggle, but few saw it as something illegal. Today (opens in new tab) however, the ex-CEO Trond Aas is being …

Though it’s hard to believe, once upon a time in a faraway land called “2004,” EverQuest 2 was a serious competitor of World of Warcraft. Though, of course, we all know how that competition went. WoW became the most successful subscription MMO of all-time and EQ2 became a relatively forgotten …

Recently Hideki Kamiya, exec at critical darling Platinum Games and director of Okami (opens in new tab), made news when talking about Sony’s PlayStation All-Star Battle Royale (opens in new tab). To quote Kamiya (opens in new tab), “It’s just a rip-off.” And as someone who has given over roughly …

Guild Wars 2’s servers go live next Tuesday for the masses (or on Saturday, if you’ve pre-ordered), giving gamers a new virtual world to run around and kill stuff in. We’ll be covering the game extensively in the weeks following the launch with review journals, videos, opinions, and all of …

Prepare to die even more, because the Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition is coming to PC later this month with new locations, enemies, and bosses to get frustrated over. The additional content takes you back through time, where you’ll get the chance to fight the Knight Artorias, a character …

The NPD Group (opens in new tab), as reported by MCV Pacific (opens in new tab), has unveiled the ten best selling games of 2012, where only three of which were actually released in that year. The remaining seven were all games of 2011, leaving only Max Payne 3, Mass …