Tag archive: RPG

Originally debuting  during March 2010, the online Star Trek collaboration between Perfect World Entertainment and Cryptic Studios has moved to the popular free-to-play model as of today. Following the lead of DC Universe Online as well as Lord of the Rings Online, anyone can download and play the Star Trek MMORPG for free. While players get to experience the majority of what the game has to offer at the free Silver level, players will also… Read More

According to Cowen & Company analyst Doug Creutz, Bioware's Star Wars: The Old Republic already has between 1 to 1.5 million early players taking advantage of early access from preordering the game. Creutz has been watching the amount of servers being rolled out for the game as well as the server population. The analyst counted 140 servers over the weekend, an increase from 106 servers there were available the previous Wednesday.… Read More

Reported during a recent Activision Blizzard conference call,  the subscriber base of the MMORPG World of Warcraft fell by another 800,000 players over a three month period. This constitutes a much larger decline than the lost 300,000 players that quit the game during the second quarter. The total user base now stands at approximately 10.3 million subscriptions, a large drop from a peak of about 12 million players during October 2010.… Read More

Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy may be the best book-to-movie adaptations ever made. It helped redefine the fantasy genre, and it's hard to believe that The Fellowship of the Ring is 10 years old now. Luckily, the series has a timeless feel to it and with the first half of a massive two-part Hobbit film headed for release in late 2012, the franchise is already beginning to heat up again. At least, that's what Warner… Read More

I walked into Bethesda Softworks' three-hour demo for The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim in New York City last week with two specific goals in mind: See as little as possible that had already been shown and wipe out the population of an entire city. This is the story of my failure. Things started off promisingly enough. I sat down in front of the monitor and found myself staring at a character creation screen. Not wanting to take too much time,… Read More

If The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim were The Beatles, and this was 1963, then proper response to the map located above may be along the line of “Squeee.” Unfortunately time and reality are fickle mistresses, so we will just have to accept the scenario and instead quietly scrutinize the recently released map for Skyrim. The source for the map is from the Russian gaming exhibition Igromir (which was then picked up by Kotaku) where it was handed out by… Read More

In Dark Souls, From Software takes the impossibly challenging gameplay from its 2009 release Demon's Souls and refines it. The result is a resounding success, building on the basic tenets laid out in the original with some new gameplay systems that completely alter the flow of play, making this week's spiritual successor at once more welcoming and more challenging to all players. Dying to learn At base, Dark Souls is an action RPG… Read More

As you are running for your life while playing Skyrim, dragons chasing you down with the intent of murdering you horribly, you may pause to wonder why the voice of an elder sounds so familiar as he screams that you are about to die. The answer is because Bethesda is not messing around when it comes to the voice cast of its highly anticipated RPG, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. The cast list, which was announced today, includes a handful of awards… Read More

If the successive sets of Roman numerals, hyphens and numbers didn't already give it away, Final Fantasy XIII-2 is not a game that intends to rock the foundation of one of Square Enix's flagship series. Instead, this year we're getting a direct sequel to FF XIII that follows Serah, the younger sister of Lightning (the hero of FFXIII), as she embarks on her own quest to save the world. A few of the details revealed include a… Read More

The first thing to know about Deus Ex: Human Revolution is that despite the looks, and despite the majority of the game play, it is not a first-person shooter–or at least, it is not just a first-person shooter. It is technically an RPG that plays like a first-person shooter, at least according to Eidos. Set in a cyberpunk inspired future, Deus Ex: Human Revolution is the prequel to the Deus Ex series that originally launched in 2000. The… Read More

BioWare has postponed the launch of Mass Effect 3, but gamers can expect a new option when it does finally hit shelves. Mass Effect 3 development lead Casey Hudson announced via Twitter that users can now opt for same-sex relationships in the game. “Happy to confirm [Mass Effect 3] supports wider options for love interest, including same-sex for male and female characters, reactive to how you interact with them in-game,” he wrote. The first two… Read More

The Wii may be light on new games, but Nintendo just added a classic to its Virtual Console download service. Chrono Trigger, one of the most highly regarded RPGs in history, is now available for download. The price: $8.00 (800 points). Republished by Square Enix, the original 1995 SquareSoft role-playing game takes place on an Earth-like planet and follows a young man (Crono) from 1000 A.D. who transports to the future and finds that a giant… Read More

With the broken dreams of millions of Boston fans on his shoulders, as the team’s arch-enemy–the NY Yankees–closed in on yet another crushing win to knock the Red Sox out of the playoffs and again cut short their hopes of finally breaking the dreaded Curse of the Bambino, Curt Schilling was all that stood between heartbreak or the beginning of what would become one of the most legendary comebacks in baseball history. With a bloody… Read More

Trinity: Souls of Zill O’ll is not the best game ever. It's not even the best game of the year, and the year is only six weeks old. It won’t push the envelope, nor will it challenge gamers in new and interesting ways. The graphics are at best average, and at worst just background images rather than cut scenes. On paper, it is a total failure of a game. And yet, I can’t stop playing it. Tecmo Koei’s Japanese-style role-playing game… Read More

Epic Games is extremely close to releasing its first game for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. The previously dubbed “Project Sword,” now has an official title – Infinity Blade – and some screenshots of the game have been released for a little more detail. It’s an action, medieval-set RPG (no big surprises there), in which you engage in 3D sword fights. If you want some first-hand experience before the official release, you can explore it in… Read More