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Atlus has just gone live with the North American website for Hexyz Force, their upcoming PSP RPG. Curiously absent is how to pronounce “Hexyz” (heck-sees, perhaps?) but otherwise the site and more information about the game can be found here.
Hexyz Force is due for a May 25 release.
Final Fantasy XIII has been a long time coming, and there’s little doubt that some people are going in with certain expectations. The fact that it’s also the first main series Final Fantasy game for the current generation likely only adds to this. To the extent that it’s possible, one has to put that aside and focus on the game for what it is rather than thinking about the rest of the series. Final Fantasy XIII is rather unlike anything else in the series anyway. Of course, it certainly has its fair share of staples such as chocobos, cactuars, and tonberries in the game, but the gameplay emphasis is very different. Exploration is all but ignored for the most part, and dungeons are the game’s clear focus. Towns are almost non-existent and functionally replaced by shops that can be accessed from save points while inns are rendered obsolete by auto-healing. Bits of story are delivered at very specific intervals, and the pace is carefully controlled to a large degree by a number of design decisions such as most dungeons being purposely linear.
Continue reading ‘Final Fantasy XIII – Staff Import Review’ »
For the next couple of weeks, we’ll be taking a look at some strategies for Glory of Heracles, and the wonders that can be performed by a party of immortals. We’ll start off simple, taking a look at the characters you’ll have to work with, along with some of the basics of combat.
Continue reading ‘Strategy Session – Glory of Heracles, Part I’ »
Square Enix announced numerous additions and changes to Final Fantasy XI at VanaFest, a special event in Tokyo dedicated to the company’s eight-year-old MMORPG. These changes are set to be released throughout 2010, thus confirming that the game will remain afloat through this year.
Continue reading ‘Square Enix Announces Final Fantasy XI Additions for 2010’ »
In another case of Exactly What it Says on the Tin (TV Tropes link redacted for safety purposes) downloadable content for La Pucelle Ragnarok has been announced. According to Nippon Ichi’s Japanese website, Elie/Erie from Marl Kingdom – the girl who owns the Rosenqueen store in La Pucelle – will join your party as a playable character.
More details can be found on the game’s site here, though a release date outside of Japan has not been announced.
As the title may suggest, Sega’s upcoming sci-fi RPG Infinite Space, for the Nintendo DS, has just received a North American release date of March 16. Previously known as Infinite Line, Infinite Space sees players commandeer a starship, customize it, and crew it accordingly.
The odds of it featuring a Turian making air quotes are “unlikely.”
Source: Gamespot
It’s been a month since the release of Mass Effect 2, and Bioware has announced that a replacement for the beloved Mako is on the way. The upcoming Firewalker DLC pack will contain the Hammerhead, “a heavy assault vehicle that hovers over the battlefield” and is armed with “a guided missile system,” and five missions designed for its use.
The DLC will be free to all Cerberus Network members, and it should be out in late March.
Going from no release date to “download now, folks” in record time is the latest DLC for Borderlands. Dubbed The Secret Armory of General Knoxx, the content promises new guns, class mods, vehicles, missions, and enemy types. Additionally, the level cap is bumped up to 61.
The content costs 800 MS funbucks for the 360. Comparable pricing for the PS3 and PC is likely, though the site has not yet been updated to reflect this. Further details, and a trailer, can be found on the DLC’s official website, located here.
Today, Nintendo announced at the Nintendo Media Summit that it will not only be co-marketing Dragon Quest IX with Square Enix but handling the North American publication of the game as well. The company also said that the game will be out sometime this summer.
Source: Joystiq
Starting today, players can download the original Grandia over the Playstation Network for the PS3 and PSP. It sells for $9.99, which is sure to throw a crimp in the plans of the guy charging $144.99 for an unopened copy on eBay (Buy It Now for $155.99!).
In last week’s Famitsu, Xenoblade director Tetsuya Takahashi provided the first details on Monolith Software’s upcoming Wii RPG. It turns out that Xenoblade isn’t a part of the Xenogears and Xenosaga epoch but rather an entirely new game and universe. “Xeno” seems to be only an homage.
Continue reading ‘Monolith Software Gears Up Xenoblade As All-New Saga’ »
SEGA announced a new release date for Alpha Protocol today via its blog. The espionage RPG will be released on June 1 for PS3, Xbox 360, and PC. SEGA also announced that anyone who pre-orders the game from Gamestop will receive the Exclusive Assault Pack, which includes special weapons and ammo.
Lionhead Studios recently asked its fans via its Facebook page for suggestions for Fable III merchandise. The survey is very simple and it only suggests standard items like apparel, books, mugs, toys, and a collector’s edition of the game. It also has a space for survey-takers to type in their own ideas. The actual Facebook post, however, suggests Fable III “branded condoms.”
Fourteen years ago, developer tri-Ace released Star Ocean for the Super Famicom. Touting “Space is an ocean of stars” as a tagline, it achieved a cult following among RPG fans and put the dev on the map. Many years, several releases and ports later, we arrive at a re-release of the fourth installment, Star Ocean: The Last Hope International, which delivers an experience largely in line with the rest of the series.
Continue reading ‘Star Ocean: The Last Hope International – Staff Review’ »
Coming courtesy of SEGA America’s blog, the upcoming DLC for Valkyria Chronicles has just been given a release date. Titled The Challenges of the Edy Detachment, the fourth DLC installment is scheduled for a February 25 launch. Not being just a clever name, the content includes six missions set by members of the Edy Detachment; each is based around learning the finer points of sniping, shocktroopering, and other things that don’t properly end with -ing but involve a whole lot of things being blown up.
Apart from members of said detachment, players will be able to use prior Squad 7 characters in the missions..
Over the weekend, Sega and tri-Ace announced their upcoming RPG Resonance of Fate will be hitting shelves March 16. For reference, that’s one week after the release of Final Fantasy XIII. Just throwing that out there.
2010’s been a busy year for gaming so far, hasn’t it?
Source: 1UP
Bandai has just launched a Japanese website for another entry into the Fullmetal Alchemist games. Subtitled To the Promised Day, the game will launch for the PSP, though neither a release date or North American release have been announced.
The website can be found here.
Lunar: Silver Star Harmony has gone gold, according to XSEED Games, and has a North American launch date of March 2. The standard and downloadable editions will retail for $29.99, while the Limited Edition – which includes the soundtrack and bromide collector cards – is listed at $39.99.
In the press release, XSEED reminded players that those who’ve finished the demo will have bonus starting equipment for the full version.
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