One piece of news from the Microsoft press presentation from E3 today that’s certainly worth of RPG attention comes from developers BioWare. Mass Effect 3 will be a Kinect enhanced game. Expecting to make pistol shapes with your fingers and shout “pew pew pew!” at the screen? Unlikely to happen. What we are now expecting […]
Prototype 2: E3 trailer
Prototype 2 will be a gory (you can tell the designers want even more gory) non-linear action game aka an open world action game – or just one step away from an RPG. It was developed by the Canadian Radical Entertainment and published by Activision (actually, I think Activision now owns Radical Entertainment). in the […]
Spider-man: Edge of Time – E3 trailer
It’s E3 week. Hurrah for all us computer RPG fans – bad news for any geek who can’t stand computer games. Let’s take an extended peak at Activision’s Spider-man game. The Edge of Time lets us involve two Spider-men and some pretty intense cut scenes. Video game teasers aren’t regulated in the way TV adverts […]
Please, please, please… all NPCs do this!
This image will reach out and speak to all CRPG players. You know the dread plot twist; one your NPCs have to leave the group. Okay, we can cope with that, the group might be a little light on magic/healing/defense/offense but we’ll be able to adjust. What’s the real kicker? That blasted NPCs just gone […]
Darksiders 2: Wrath of War announcement trailer
Okay, I’ll admit that Darksiders might not be 100% RPG goodness but there are elements of the genre in there – besides, the mythology and setting of Darksiders appeals to many native geeks. In Darksiders we delt with the Apocalypse, started by War prematurely – or so we thought. There’s a twist there. In Darksiders […]
Not the sex toy Saints Row: The Third trailer
What’s the difference between an “action RPG” and a “non-linear shooter”? In both cases the emphasis is on running around and blasting things. I think the answer to the question is setting; War in the North is an action RPG because it’s set in Middle Earth and therefore the target market slants towards roleplayers. Saints […]
Arkham City: Catwoman trailer
If you want to spend some time watching Catwoman’s bum then this new Arkham City trailer is for you. Arkham is shaping up to be both visually stunning but also intelligently complex with the story and sides. You have options in this game and I get the feeling that not everything will be as it […]
Dungeon Siege 3 demo trailer
Another Dungeon Siege 3 trailer… very similar to the others, getting a bit fed up of that bird. Here’s the catch. This video managed to sell DS3 to me in a way that the others hadn’t. It’s supposed to be a bit of a demo video; showing how the new Dungeon Siege might look in […]
The E3 trailer for Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Square Enix, the people who bring us Final Fantasy, have another strong RPG franchise in the form of Deus Ex. The next the series, Deus Ex: Human Revolution will be hot in time for E3. As a result we’re getting access to rather tasty trailers. The game will be out for PC, PlayStation 3 and […]
War in the North – E3’s Lord of the Rings trailer
E3 is shaping up to be a cracker. We can execpt lots of good announcements and a host of teasers. Warner Bros and Snowblind have their “action RPG” for Lord of the Rings nearly ready and so we can predict we’ll get an extended trailer for War in the North. What do we have right […]
