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'Blade & Soul' Revealed - Screens & Trailer

by Rainier on Aug. 3, 2008 @ 7:05 a.m. PDT | Filed under News

Blade & Soul is an Asian Martial Arts MMORPG that breaks with traditional confined and monotonous gameplay, providing a completely new experience through game environment alteration, and expansion of tasks that a character can carry out.

'Final Fantasy XIII' (PS3/X360) Team Has No X360 Debug Kits Yet, PS3 Demo Coming

by Rainier on Aug. 3, 2008 @ 7:02 a.m. PDT | Filed under News

FF XIII uses the latest in cutting-edge technology providing tangible, intuitive controls while delivering seamless transitions between real-time gameplay and in-game cinematics. At E3, Square Enix announced that it would be bringing FF XIII to the Xbox 360, but at its DK Sigma3173 event, series director Motomu Toriyama revealed that development has not started yet, as the team has yet to receive any debug units. PS3 fans will be able to try out a quite large demo in March 2009 on a bonus demo disc that will come with the Blu-ray release of FF VII: Advent Children.

'Infinite Undiscovery' (X360) - 20 New Screens

by Rainier on Aug. 2, 2008 @ 4:36 p.m. PDT | Filed under News

Various situations unfold in a world that changes in real time, with players’ choices leading to "unknown discoveries." Infinite Undiscovery offers a fantasy world overflowing with realism, allowing players to experience true role playing within a grand story.

'Left 4 Dead' (X360/PC) Also Coming to PS3

by Rainier on Aug. 2, 2008 @ 6:30 a.m. PDT | Filed under News

Set in a modern day survival-horror universe, the co-operative gameplay of Left 4 Dead casts four "Survivors" in an epic struggle against hordes of swarming zombies and terrifying "Boss Infected" mutants. According to the latest issue of OPM, EA will be in charge of porting Valve's FPS to PS3, much like it did with The Orange Box.

Various Game Trailers #1401

by Rainier on Aug. 2, 2008 @ 6:24 a.m. PDT | Filed under News

Another day, another batch of game trailers was released. Instead of giving them all their own posts, we grouped them, and so far there are trailers for:

  • Facebreaker [ALL] - Controls 101 Trailer
  • Baja: Edge of Control [ALL] - A.I. Dev Diary Trailer
  • NHL 09 [ALL] - New Features Trailer


  • We will update this throughout the day when new trailers become available. Read more for download links ...

'Red Faction: Guerrilla' (PS3/X360/PC) - Screens & Trailers

by Rainier on Aug. 1, 2008 @ 6:29 p.m. PDT | Filed under News

Volition, Inc.'s third-person shooter franchise will make its open-world, next-gen debut with Red Faction: Guerrilla. Set 50 years after the climactic events of the original Red Faction, this third-person open-world action-shooter will return to Mars and once again re-define the limits of destruction-based game-play.

'Diablo III' Fan Petition Will Yield No Result

by Rainier on Aug. 1, 2008 @ 6:23 p.m. PDT | Filed under News

Diablo III is an action RPG where you create a hero from one of five distinct classes, each equipped with an array of spells and abilities, and adventure through rich and varied settings, unraveling an epic storyline and engaging in combat with hordes of monsters and challenging bosses. Last month Diablo fans had started a petition, which currently has over 50k signatures, expressing their dislike about the game's artistic direction, but according to lead designer Jay Wilson it won't matter as it's too far into the development to make any changes, and the team is happy with the current style.

'Ar tonelico 2' (PS2) Announced - Screens

by Rainier on Aug. 1, 2008 @ 6:13 p.m. PDT | Filed under News

Ar tonelico 2 is an RPG that seamlessly combines simulation with role-playing, allowing gamers to not only customize weapons and items, but now design their character’s personalities, skills, and appearance through virtual interaction. Also past events will intersect with future game play as well as the outcome of the game.

Various Game Trailers #1400

by Rainier on Aug. 1, 2008 @ 6:01 p.m. PDT | Filed under News

Another day, another batch of game trailers was released. Instead of giving them all their own posts, we grouped them, and so far there are trailers for:

  • Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood [NDS] - Trailer #2
  • Dead Space [ALL] - Animated Comic #4
  • Bionic Commando: Re-Armed [ALL] - Making Of Trailer #2
  • Saints Row 2 [ALL] - Tera Patrick Dev Diary #1
  • TNA iMPACT! [ALL] - AJ Styles vs. Jay Lethal Trailer
  • Sacred 2: Fallen Angel [PS3/X360/PC] - Combart Arts Trailer
  • The Lord of the Rings Online: Mines of Moria - Trailer
  • Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09 [Wii] - Swing & All Play Trailer
  • Perimeter 2: New Earth [PC] - Harkback Trailer
  • Rise of the Argonauts [ALL] - Taking RPGs to the Next Level Trailer


  • We will update this throughout the day when new trailers become available. Read more for download links ...

Blizzard Adding Achievements, Starting With 'World of Warcraft' Expansion

by Rainier on Aug. 1, 2008 @ 5:56 p.m. PDT | Filed under News

In tow with Valve, Blizzard is planning to add to StarCraft 2 and Diablo 3 but is starting its experiment with the upcoming World of Warcraft expansion which will track player's achievements and centralize the info into Blizzard Account according to an interview with WoW lead designer Jeff Kaplan. As more of its games get added, the system will migrate to an Xbox Live type gamerscore where players can compare statistics from their various Blizzard games with other people.