If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Focus Home Interactive has announced that it has bagged another game which is being developed that’s based on the Game of Thrones books and hit TV series. The franchise, which has suddenly got hotter than an orc torturer’s poking [...]
Focus Home Interactive has announced a new role-playing game being overseen by Cyanide (of BloodBowl fame), and developed by Spiders. Of Orcs and Men is considerably underway with development, and is expected to be released at some point next year. The game revolves around a brutal conflict between the empire of man and the green-skinned [...]
The launch of Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim creeps ever nearer, and a few more details have been revealed about the game which is due in the second week of November. Bethesda has just officially announced the voice cast, which contains a generous scattering of “names” from the stage and screen. These include Academy Award nominees [...]
The fifth instalment in the Elder Scrolls series is rumbling onto our role-playing horizons. With just two months to go before release, Skyrim is receiving plenty of preview and hands-on play attention from the gaming press. So we thought it would be an idea to round-up a few bits from the latest previews and news [...]
Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar was the first RPG adventure we played on our Amiga back in 1985. As such, it holds a fond place in our heart, and despite the stick-man graphics which looking back now seem painfully bad, the game told a compelling story which kept us wandering the virtual lands for [...]
Those of you who like a bit of tongue-in-cheek role-playing, with an extra side order of silliness, would do well to consider the latest offering from Hothead Games. The Baconing is a tastily named action role-player which features DeathSpank, the knight who has previously starred in the Thongs of Virtue adventure. Having obtained the all-powerful [...]
There’s a new free-to-play game in town, and it’s called Hellbreed. Freshly out of beta and launched in the UK, this is an action RPG from Gameforge, and it’s a browser based affair with no downloading or installation required. The underworld awaits adventurers, replete with dark (and probably dank and other words beginning with ‘d’) [...]
Diablo 3 is the hugely awaited next instalment of the classic action RPG from Blizzard. But the latest revelations regarding the game haven’t gone down well with many sections of the community. So what’s causing all the hoo-hah? First of all, Diablo 3 will require players to be online to play. There’ll be no offline [...]
Microsoft’s doing its round of summer games promotions on Xbox Live again, and the first title to be part of 2011′s hot weather (ahem) gaming marathon is Bastion. Exclusively available on Live Arcade (but also planned for the PC later), Bastion is an action role-player published by Warner Bros. Selling points include wild and imaginative [...]
The next patch for the Witcher 2 should hopefully be arriving soon. Patch 1.2 came out at the start of June, introducing some important tweaks and loading optimisation, along with balancing adjustments to make the beginning of the game not quite so tough. It also included some bits of downloadable content, and patch 1.3 will [...]
EA has announced that a new downloadable add-on module will be made available for Dragon Age II on July 26th. This is a whole new slab of story, and apparently Bioware has made an effort to ensure it has a different feel to the standard game, not just slapping some textures and a few new [...]
Skyrim, the next instalment in the Elder Scrolls series (following on from Oblivion) is of course a massively anticipated game for role-playing types. And some more juicy details have just emerged courtesy of a fan interview published on the official Bethesda forum. Game Director Todd Howard, along with Bruce Nesmith (Lead Designer) and Matt Carofano [...]
T3 Entertainment has announced the launch of the open beta for Hellgate, the rusty gates of which creak open on Thursday. If Hellgate sounds familiar it should do, as it’s a revitalisation of Hellgate: London, the title launched by EA some four years ago which flopped and had its servers closed down. T3 bought up [...]
If you’re familiar with the name DeathSpank, the hero of the Thongs of Virtue, then you’ll be well aware of what sort of game The Baconing is. Although to be honest, the title gives it away anyhow. It’s rather silly. And if developer Hothead Games had its tongue planted any more firmly in the side [...]
Warner Bros has released a new trailer for its upcoming action RPG Lord of the Rings: War in the North. It features members of the development team, Snowblind Studios, talking about some of the characters you’ll meet in the game. Have a peek here. The characters include the Great Eagle Beleram – a fearsome ally [...]
Dungeon Siege III is out on Xbox, PS3 and PC tomorrow. A short launch trailer has been put out to celebrate the impending release, about 30 seconds of gameplay footage which you can take a look at on YouTube. It shows off the four heroes of the game, including the woman duel-wielding pistols, attempting to [...]
If you’ve seen the original Torchlight, then you’re quite possibly keenly awaiting the sequel of this action RPG. An unashamed Diablo clone, Torchlight is based purely on dungeon delving and loot grabbing, although the character building is nicely fleshed out, too. It was a surprisingly addictive little outing, although many bemoaned a lack of multiplayer [...]
Focus Home Interactive has announced the availability of new images for its upcoming game Confrontation. Developed by Cyanide Studio of Blood Bowl fame, this is another video game adaptation of a board game, in this case Rackham’s fantasy miniature wargame Confrontation. Apparently it’s a mix of strategy and role-playing elements with the emphasis on tactics, [...]
Diablo III is keenly awaited by action RPG fans everywhere, ourselves included. The next Diablo game promises more finger-clicking, loot-hoovering goodness, with a robust trade system apparently in the works to facilitate weapon and item swapping between players. As regards a release date, Blizzard recently remarked that they were in the home stretch with the [...]
A new trailer has been released for Dungeon Siege III, showing off its multiplayer gameplay. The trailer, which you can enjoy on YouTube here, features four characters: Lucas, Katarina, Reinhart and Anjali. It shows off their various weapons – the humble blade, enchanted ballistics, entropic magic and fireballs aplenty – as they hack their way [...]
Man of Steel teaser trailer released
If you’re sick of comic-book adaptations and film remakes, the last thing you might expect to get excited about is a new Superman film. That’s right: there’s a new Superman film scheduled for release in 2013. However, before you run off groaning at the idea of yet another mediocre cash-in, this one comes with caveats. [...]
Penguin owner buys ASI self-publishing company
According to the BBC, Pearson, which owns Penguin books among other things, has bought Author Solutions Inc in a £74 million deal. The deal means that Pearson now has control of a self-publishing interest. The news has raised concerns among some writers that intellectual property (IP) rights for new writers may be at risk, especially [...]
The Winner of our April 300 Word Writing Challenge is writer John J Brady, (known on these forums as alchemist). He wins a £10 voucher to spend at Amazon or The Book Depository, our quarterly prize. As usual, the challenge our members faced was to write a story of no more than 300 words, inspired [...]
Forum member Teresa Edgerton is the winner of our January 300 Word Writing Challenge. She wins a £10 voucher to spend at The Book Depository, our quarterly prize. As usual, the challenge our members faced was to write a story of no more than 300 words, inspired by an image selected by our moderators. For [...]
All Zombies Must Die hits the Xbox
At the weekend, All Zombies Must Die was unleashed on Xbox Live. As you can probably guess from the title, this is a rather tongue in cheek game developed by Doublesix with a focus on multiplayer zombie slaying. Set in the town of Deadhill, All Zombies Must Die offers a huge variety of weapons (such [...]
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