Tag Archives: Role Playing

The PS Vita continues to struggle overseas, according to the latest weekly sales totals from Japanese firm Media Create. The report, which covers video game sales from April 9 to April 15, showed Sony’s handheld in fourth place behind its predecessor, the PlayStation Portable, and the week’s big winner, Nintendo’s …

Some RPGs put you through a glorified 20-hour tutorial and hope you’re still awake at the end of the ride to enjoy the full potential of the mechanics presented. Others introduce a slew of concepts alongside nothing but sparse instructional text just before throwing you off a cliff assuming you …

Well, this has been quite the saga. Remember when Mass Effect 3’s Metacritic Problem (opens in new tab) first reared its problematically homophobic head? Or that somewhat heated discussion (ahem) over the Mass Effect 3 ending, why (opens in new tab) it is fine and/or the worst thing ever, etc, …

UK music company EMI is taking the creators of 2010’s Def Jam Rapstar to court in an effort to collect over $8 million in alleged damages from the use of unlicensed songs. The lawsuit, spotted by the Hollywood Reporter, was filed last week in New York. It accuses Def Jam …

Welcome to tenth edition of the still-new-and-fresh-smelling GamesRadar UK Podcast! Mixed into the usual talk about games, a further discussion about cheese and a worrying admission that Justin had a nightmare about the Care Bears, you’ll find your favourite regulars, like the Erection Section, the Towell Joke Factory and the …

The final moments of Mass Effect 3 aren’t sitting well with some fans, but according to director Casey Hudson, stirring up controversy was part of BioWare’s mission all along. “I didn’t want the game to be forgettable. Even right down to the sort of polarizing reaction that the ends have …

Guild Wars 2 publisher NCSoft has detailed preorder bonuses for the highly-anticipated MMO. Putting down a preorder for any of the game’s three editions will guarantee players entry into all future beta events, as well as securing an in-game Hero’s Band buff and 3-day headstart on the game’s launch. This …

Hyperdimension Neptunia is undeniably a fun-sounding concept. In an RPG world based on the actual game industry, consoles and game developers personified as cute anime girls save the realm from rampant piracy, making joking references all the while. But as the original game showed, not even a cute concept can …

So by now you probably know that, having teased the new “Take Back Earth” spot with a miniclip last week, EA’s big Sunday reveal was itself just a teaser for this, an extended trailer for the March 6 blockbuster. The new version’s pleasantly paced-out with plenty of heroic slo-mo, but …

Videogame characters aren’t born, they’re made. They start as a sketch, get put onto a computer, and then… a bunch of stuff happens. People mess around with 3D programs, then mess around with other 3D programs, then they give it textures, and animations, and… it’s complicated. But when you see …