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Even at E3, F.O.E. Atlus formally announced a North American release for Etrian Odyssey III: The Drowned City today. The game is due out September 21, and the official site is available here.
Those of you who know of the tangentally related IOSYS flash are hearing it in your heads right about now. Those who haven’t, well, you got a few minutes?
In a move sure to surprise some of the lawyers involved with the controversy surrounding this game, Interplay announced that Fallout Online will be accepting Beta applications starting immediately. Head on over to the game’s official site and take a look.
Fallout Online has been at the center of a legal dispute between Interplay and Bethseda for a while now, with suits and countersuits calling the eventual release of the game into question. In fact, Interplay previously announced that it would be attempting a Beta in 2012, making this announcement all the more surprising.
Following up on the DLC train, BioWare announced the release of some new content for Dragon Age: Origins. Called Leliana’s Song, it covers the story of a young Bard named Leliana and her mentor as they get involved in some nasty underworld schemes. The DLC includes fully voice acted cinema sequences, and a vaguely defined reward that will transfer to your Awakening and Origins campaigns.
Leliana’s Song will be available July 6th, and will cost around about $7.
There were press conferences! And WE WERE THERE, MAN. WE WERE THERE. In ur briefings, eatin ur croissants and BBQ tacoz. Then we all went up to the beautiful RandomNPC studios in sunny Los Angeles, California (read: our hotel room) and, in various states of sleep-deprivation, yammered on about the things we saw.
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Following on the heels of the announcement of a new Zelda game for the Wii, Nintendo has announced via its Twitter feed that it will have company on the 3DS in the form of a remake of The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time.
Nintendo also put forth the names of a couple of first and third-party titles that will be appearing on their new handheld, including Kingdom Hearts and Paper Mario. Unfortunately, none of these titles received much more than a name drop, so stay tuned for updates as they become available.
Apparently eager to learn from last year’s lackluster E3 conference, Nintendo started off its show with quite the fan-pleaser: a new Legend of Zelda game. Called The Legend of Zelda: The Skyward Sword, Nintendo brought out Shigeru Miyamoto to demonstrate how the controls had been streamlined since Twilight Princess, and how the game used the Wii Motion Plus accessory. He also showed off a couple new items, including a whip, and an item called the Spying Beetle, which allows players to see ahead in an area.
The Legend of Zelda: The Skyward Sword will be available for purchase sometime in 2011.
In a move sure to please fans of the series, Nintendo revealed a release date and a subtitle for the upcoming DS continuation of the Golden Sun series. Now known as Golden Sun: Dark Dawn, the game will be on store shelves this holiday season, though no more exact date was given.
Today, BioWare announced a couple of new toys for both the PC and Xbox360 versions of Mass Effect 2. The first is a 90-minute demo, featuring the opening cinema and mission of the game, and will allow players to save the progress they make on the demo for use on the full game.
The second, and probably more interesting announcement, is that new DLC will be available for the game come tomorrow. Called Overlord, it adds five new areas to the game, as well as two new achievements. There wasn’t much in the way of further details, but the content will put players back 560 points, either in Microsoft or Bioware’s Internet Funbucks, depending on which platform you’re on.
The good folks at Bethesda have released a new Fallout New Vegas trailer for E3. Amongst other things, it reveals the game’s release date, which is October 19th of this year.
You can count on a review shortly thereafter, as Karl, Cortney, Xero and myself will all be playing it immediately upon launch.
Square Enix has launched a website listing their titles to be on display at E3 this year. Of particular note: Final Fantasy XIV, The Third Birthday, Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep, Kingdom Hearts: Recoded, Final Fantasy: The Four Heroes of Light, Front Mission Evolved, Dungeon Siege 3, and Deus Ex: Human Revolution.
Further details and further titles can found at the site, located here.
With the supervision of series developer Gas Powered Games, Obsidian Entertainment will be developing Dungeon Siege 3. The announcement comes from publisher Square Enix, who also stated that the title will launch on PC, PS3, and the 360. No release date or other information has yet been revealed.
Source: CVG.com
As the title suggests, BioWare has just signed a deal with Japanese animation studio FUNimation for a feature-length anime based on Dragon Age. Production is slated to begin in May, with the actual release expected sometime next year. The announcement comes straight from EA’s website, and that sound you just heard was a collective double-take by PC RPG fans and anime fans outside the Venn diagram overlap.
No story or cast information was revealed in the announcement.
As the North American release of Ys Seven draws closer, the developers have launched a promotion-slash-contest for fans to submit their names as possible in-game quest characters. From now until June 11, anyone who joins the Ys fangroup on Facebook will have their name entered in the drawing; a total of 14 names will be picked at random.
Further details, such as legal requirements for participants, can be found on the official Ys Series Facebook page.
With E3 coming up in a few weeks, Bethesda has announced the lineup of games it intends to show at its booth. Among the short list is Fallout: New Vegas. This is no surprise as the game is expected to be released later this year.
RandomNPC will be there bringing you the latest coverage from the show floor. We’ll do our best to bring you all the Fallout: New Vegas news allowed by our carry weight limits.
As part of Nintendo’s ongoing quest to make more money, Pokemon Black and Pokemon White now have a North American window for release. Due out in Japan in September of this year, the upcoming Pokemon titles will see North American store shelves sometime in Spring of 2011.
Source: Shacknews
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