- How could Nintendo ever mess with titles such as this?

That’s right, don’t think anyone’s pulling your leg. According to a well known gaming site (Gamers Creed to be precise) Japanese developers Idea Factory and RED have unveiled Record of Agarest War. The game is actually a strategy RPG for your Nintendo DS, in
which gamers have to get females to “breed” their successors. Now tell me that’s not what you wanted to hear. Continue Reading »
Japanese DS RPG that Lets You ‘Breed’

- Funcom and Eidos have scheduled their MMO game’s release for March 25th, next year

It looks like Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures is being pushed back a little. According to an official report coming from Funcom and Eidos, a new release date for ‘Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures’ has been set. The two companies saw that there was more work to be done on the long awaited MMO game, thus pushing it back to 25th of March 2008. The game was originally slated for a 30 October release this year,
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Age of Conan: Hiboryan Adventures Pushed Back… A Lot!

For the first time in the history of MMO games, CCP Games, creators of EVE Online have announced the appointment of an in-world lead economist for the game. They are commissioning a dedicated real world economist to constantly monitor and make a research for the virtual world. This appointment comes as a real testament to the growing intricacy and strength of EVE Online’s thriving virtual economy.

As the official report says,
Dr. Eyjólfur Guðmundsson brings an over 15-years-experience in economic studies and research, and joins CCP directly from the University of Akureyri, Iceland, where he – among several teaching positions – held the position of the Dean of the Faculty of Business and Science. Prior to that, he was a research associate at the University of Rhode Island’s Department of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics where he also completed his PhD. He has also authored or co-authored 15 publications. Dr. Guðmundsson’s first blog on EVE Online economics can be found here. Continue Reading »
In-World Economist Appointed for EVE Online

Sega is prepping the first expansion to the latest entry in its popular RTS series for a fall assault; first screens inside.

Four months ago, Sega released Medieval II: Total War, the latest installment in the long-running real-time strategy series. Developed by the British studio The Creative Assembly, which Sega bought in 2005, the game has players vying for control of Europe during the Middle Ages via massive battles with individually animated soldiers.

Medieval II received solid reviews, including an upbeat assessment from GameSpot. It also enjoyed decent sales for a PC game unrelated to The Sims or World of Warcraft, moving just under 200,000 units in the US in two-and-a-half months.
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Medieval II: Total War overruns Kingdoms

God of War II is another violent and highly entertaining achievement for the action adventure genre, and it’s a fitting closeout to the PlayStation 2 era.
The Good: More of the gory, over-the-top action you’ve come to expect from this series; fantastically paced, with some ingenious puzzle designs; scale of some of the levels is unbelievably massive; superb graphics and sound; several more bosses than the first game.
The Bad: Combat is overly straightforward at times and still prone to button mashing; ending leaves you hanging.

It’s hard to imagine a better swan song for the PlayStation 2 than God of War II. Though it’s not destined to be the very last game for the system, it doesn’t seem likely that anything else will come along in the coming months to trump what God of War II achieves. As the sequel to 2005’s megapopular action adventure set within the basic confines of Greek mythology, it continues the agonizing and rage-fueled odyssey of the world’s angriest man-god, Kratos, as he goes on another epic vengeance bender. It’s an altogether familiar adventure in many ways, with a lot of gameplay mechanics held over that haven’t necessarily been improved in any meaningful capacity, but that’s not to suggest the game isn’t better overall. God of War II is a brilliantly paced, tightly crafted piece of work that’s as intelligently designed as it is thrilling to play. In short, it’s exactly what you would want from a sequel to God of War. Continue Reading »
God of War II

And the PSP version is finally confirmed.

You read right — God of War 3 has been unofficially announced during the launch party for God of War 2. Matt’s got the goods in his liveblog of the event:

9:40: Did Barlog just confirm that God of War 3 will be in 1080p with Sixaxis and VIBRATION functions on PS3? He sure did! Whoa! Well, technically he didn’t confirm GOW3, but he confirmed Sixaxis and vibration for the future of God of War. Here’s hoping he wasn’t joking, but it didn’t sound that way.
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God of War 3 to Have Rumble, Run at 1080p