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Today's News Bullets 2007-05-31 19:12:00 RPG Vault previews Dreamlords, a massively multiplayer strategy with RPG elements.The Gods and Heroes: Rome Rising site is offering you the chance to be part of its exclusive beta test.GameSpy has 7 new screens of 'deep fantasy' RPG Sacred 2: Fallen Angel.WarCry has a personal profile of Kevin Saunders, Lead Designer on NWN 2: Mask of the Betrayer. Read more:Today
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Forget Wii. Here's a truly wee role-playing game 2007-05-31 08:36:00 Sean Howard has been receiving a lot of (deserved) attention for his Three Hundred project, in which he aims to write up 300 original game mechanics in 300 days.
Today's mechanic is number 22: Tiny Quest. The mechanic would be an entire RPG game the size of a banner advertisement, used to advertise a website.
My criteria was that it had to be both a game and a banner. That is, it's primary Read more:Wii
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LotR Online Boss: Cash for items not out of the question 2007-05-30 23:54:00 Eurogamer spoke to Turbine executive producer Jeffrey Steefel yesterday about the development of a "secondary market" for Lord of the Rings Online. The term "secondary market" refers to the exchange of game characters, items and coinage for real-world money.
"The 'secondary market' is a huge topic of conversation across the industry, and we're watching it really closely," Steefel told Eurogamer
Obsidian CEO Feargus Urquhart strikes fear into the hearts of RPG developers everywhere 2007-05-30 23:02:00 "It used to be fine to make an RPG that was just wandering around and hacking things up with the player having very little effect on the world around them. Why play that game now if you could just play a MMO?"
Feargus Urquhart has warned RPG developers that they need to focus on what makes the genre unique or risk losing out to the exploding MMORPG industry.
"I think those of us that make Read more:everywhere
Naruto's first RPG set to hit North America 2007-05-30 22:47:00 And not just metaphorically hit, as in arrive, but we're talking a real, ninjitsu-style punch. The game is Naruto
: Path of the Ninja - the first Naruto title to make its way onto the Nintendo DS for NorthAmerica
.
Careen Yapp, VP of licensing and business development, said: "Some of the best elements from all the Japanese Naruto RPG releases will be utilized to create an
Today's Quick News 2007-05-30 22:18:00 IGN PC interviews Andrew Edelstan, developer of upcoming Action-RPG, Fury.ArenaNet is working on the first expansion for the Guild Wars series, Eye of the North.Blizzard has released the 'Black Temple' update for World of Warcraft.New Legend: Hand of God screens at the game's official site.Eurogamer previews FFXII: Revenant Wings.WarCry interviews Kevin Saunders about NWN 2: Mask of the Betrayer. Read more:Today
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BioShock writer tells us a story 2007-05-30 07:14:00 Susan O'Connor, who worked as a writer on RPG influenced genre-bender BioShock, has been interviewed at Ars Technica about her experiences writing for games. The interview is part of an excellent three part series covering the importance of story
in games.
Part I - Advancing the art of storytelling
Ken Levine is designing Bioshock, a game that draws on the work of Ayn Rand for its story and Read more:tells
Blogging Ultima 2007-05-30 03:31:00 Via GameSetWatch comes a link to this interesting project: BloggingUltima
, in which gamer Ophidian Dragon "blogs his way through the entire Ultima series, from beginning to end." He's currently working through Ultima VII. Here's an excerpt from the project's introduction:
Welcome to what will presumably be a long-running Ultima blog. The purpose is to blog the experience of playing the
Alter Ego: avatars and the gamers behind them 2007-05-29 23:00:00 Alter Ego: Avatars and their creators is a unique book concept containing 70 pairs of images - one of an online avatar, and one of the gamer behind
the avatar. Each image set is accompanied by a profile of the gamer. These can be pretty fascinating.
New Scientist has a slideshow of some images accompanied by narration from the author. The gamer above is Choi Seang Rak, a university professor Read more:Alter
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Fallout 3: last teaser art revealed, expect [spoiler] trailer [/spoiler] next week 2007-05-29 21:49:00 Feast your eyes, folks, on the last piece of teaser art for Fallout
3. It seems as if there's this unspoken rule in the world that all post-apocalyptic imagery must feature a juxtaposition of ruined iconic landmarks with urban desolation. But hey, I'm not complaining - I like it.
You may have noticed that the bottom left-hand corner of F3's official site reads TEASER: 06. Our wild speculation
Lionhead fan site interviews Fable 2's Dene Carter 2007-05-29 21:27:00 Here's what Carter
had to say about the mood of the game:
I think that one of the nice things we did in Fable
1 was there was always kinda a bit of a flip-flop in the story between things that are actually very very dark - things that happened to your family in Fable 1 were quite horrific - and there was a lot of quite silly content as well. I think this time because the graphical fidelity
Quick News 2007-05-29 21:07:00 A gameplay video of BioShock is up at Kotaku.Ten Ton Hammer interviews Don Daglow, creator of the original NWN online game.
Worthplaying has 5 new screens of 2-D fantasy MMORPG Red Stone.... while RPG Vault has interviewed the game's developers. Read more:Quick
Hellgate: 16 new screens, some musing 2007-06-03 20:06:00 Worthplaying has 16 new screens of Hellgate: London. The game promises a completely randomized first-person RPG experience, where no level, no loot, and no monsters are the same twice.
While this sounds like an interesting concept, and it does add replayability to the game, it might mean that a player's first-time experience with Hellgate is not what it could have been. There's a difference
Today's News Bullets 2007-06-03 19:52:00 Hellgate: London now has an alpha siteComputer and Video Games previews The Witcher
IGN previews Guild Wars: Eye of the NorthUpdated (v1.30) trial for Dawnspire: Prelude Read more:Today
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This Week's Highlights 2007-06-03 04:31:00 Deus Ex vs. BioShock: the moral question of children in gamesAlter Ego: Avatars and the gamers behind themBlogging UltimaForget Wii. Here's a truly wee roleplaying game Read more:Highlights
World of WarCraft players finally stop playing in order to draw... comics about World of WarCraft 2007-06-02 20:31:00 That's May's winning comic at the World
of WarCraft community comics archive. I like it because it follows a theme I've written about before - the difference between MMORPG avatars and the players behind them.
You can view the competition's honorable mentions too, and follow the links to look through the other hundred-something comics they've got.
There are draw-backs to a game having 8
Disgaea on the DS 2007-06-02 19:26:00 RPG Gamer has interviewed Nao Zook, a representative of NIS America. Here's en excerpt from the interview:
(Reader Question) Any chance of Disgaea
on the Nintendo DS?
Nao: Let me just say this... you can look forward to it!The Disgaea PS2 game Hour of Darkness - a strategy RPG, and we can expect Disgaea for the DS to be the same - was famous for its multiple endings, repeat playthroughs, and
Age of Conan: 6 new screens, June ezine 2007-06-02 19:05:00 Worthplaying has six new screens of MMORPG Age of Conan
: Hyborian Adventures, all set in a dark, swampy locale. The June issue of the game's monthly eZine (Clan of Conan, heh) has also been released. It's an overview of Age of Conan news and media from the last month, but it has some new content as well: this issue, it's a feature on the weapons and armor available in the game.
UPDATE: Just
Blizzard offers WoW gamers free 10 day trial of Burning Crusade 2007-06-01 20:15:00 It seems Blizzard
have decided that the best way to get people to buy a game is to let them play it, but not quite *all* of it. That's the philosophy behind their 10 day free trail of WoW expansion: BurningCrusade
for all World of WarCraft players who've not yet upgraded.
My favorite part of the terms of use:
... any characters you play during the trial can only advance up to one experience Read more:Burning Crusade
Snag a PS3 demo of FolkLore 2007-06-01 19:47:00 Ingredients
1 PS3
1 Japanese PlayStation Network account
Result
1 download of the FolkSoul [FolkLore] demo
FolkLore impressed the gaming media at the Sony Gamer's Day event and the demo comes with the recommendation of PS3 Fanboy, who's already played it through twice. Why go to the trouble of starting a Japanese PSN account to get it? The release of a demo outside Japan is probably several
Age of Conan: New gameplay footage 2007-06-01 19:27:00 GameSpy has two new videos of online Action-RPG Age of Conan
, one titled 'Frost Swamp' and another titled 'Inventory'. Read more:gameplay
Today's News Bullets 2007-06-01 18:58:00 RPG Vault has several new screens of upcoming MMORPG Sword of the New World.... they've also interviewed ClockStone developers about new Action-RPG Avencast.Worthplaying has a couple of new screens from Action-RPG Legend: Hand of God.... and five new screens of evil and evil-er Overlord for the XBOX 360 and PC.... and two new (rather drab) screens of NWN 2: Mask of the Betrayer.
Dragon-riding PS3 Read more:Today
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WoW: Uber monsters get Uber-er 2007-06-07 21:51:00 Via Wired, Game | Life:
World of Warcraft v2.0.1 is barely over two weeks old, but some guilds have already seen fit to trample all over the new raid content introduced in the massive update. Case in point: European guild Nihlium downing uber boss Illidan just yesterday, with Curse following hot on their heels.
As a response, Blizzard is going to up the difficulty level through what is perhaps Read more:monsters
Hellgate: London: huge pre-alpha preview 2007-06-07 19:55:00 Flux over at IncGamer's Hellgate: London portal attended this year's HGL Community Day and returned with lots of neat images and much to say about the game. Many thousands of words, in fact.
The preview is in four parts and incredibly detailed, so much so that casual observers of the game's progress might be intimidated. Those of you who're eagerly awaiting this title will probably read the
Today's News Bullets 2007-06-07 18:58:00 World of WarCraft official site opens new Item Search feature
RPG Vault has the second part of its Phylon interview
IGN has some more screens from The Witcher
RTS/RPG/FPS hybrid The Wall announced for PS3 & Xbox 360
Dungeon Hero announced for the Xbox 360
Warren Spector's Junction Point Studios site has relaunched
GameShark has an interview with The Witcher's Michael Madej
GameAlmighty Read more:Today
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City of Heroes... the MMOvie 2007-06-07 07:55:00 From Sci Fi Wire:
Transformers producer Tom DeSanto has secured the film rights to NCsoft and Cryptic Studio's video game City of Heroes, Variety reported.
The plan is to adapt the massively multiplayer online role-playing game into a live-action feature and then transition it to television in some form, the trade paper reported.
The movie revolves around a group of superheroes who live in
Hellgate: London associates itself with garish vehicle, will probably not increase sales 2007-06-07 07:40:00 I don't know who did it. I don't know who thought of the idea. There are more photos, if you'd like to see the Hellgate: London Volkswagon Caddy from four different angles.
I am all for RPG-themed cars. Youbetcha. However, the Need for Speed Underground player in me looks at this creation and thinks... Surely flames on a black background would look better than flame on red? And the wheels...
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