White Knight Chronicles srvers will shut down on June 18
https://www.facebook.com/WhiteKnightChroniclesII Well this is how they repay their costumers by not only abandoning and not supporting the game but by shutting it down. What other free to play online...
View ArticleDungeons & Dragons: Shadow Over Mystaria & Tower Of Doom coming to PSN and...
The two arcades I actually want to track down and own are now gonna be downloads. I thought that WOTC would never give capcom back the license:...
View Article2013 Supplemental: A Year of Downloadable Exclusives - Mar - Dust: An Elysian...
This month, we'll be taking a look at Dust: An Elysian Tail, created by Dean Dodrill. For those unfamiliar with the story, Dodrill developed and programmed the entire game himself, with the exception...
View ArticleAle and Women ... okay just Women
So any one else been trying the open Beta for Scarlet Blade. Honestly if not for the maturity level of many of it's players and some of the design chocies in reference to the female characters, it's...
View ArticleNon-linearity--how about blackmailing someone out of town instead of killing...
I was watching the new Dishonored trailer, and it was really awesome. The main character feels pretty sad though. He feels genuinely (from the trailer at least) like someone who is tired, jaded, and...
View ArticleToday's Nintendo Direct
Hi everyone! We're preparing a big ol' news article about all the great RPG news found in today's Nintendo Direct. Please refrain from creating threads about that news here in the meantime. You'll be...
View ArticleAgarest is up for vote on Steam green light
Its just come to my attention that the JRPG the first agarest game is now up for vote on the steam greenlight program, I don't know if this just includes the European version of steam, but if it is it...
View Article2013: A Year of PS2 Greats - Mar - Tales of the Abyss
The Year of PS2 Greats rolls on to yet another lengthy franchise after playing DQ8 and BoF5 in previous months. In March, we'll be looking at the eighth game in the Tales series, Tales of the Abyss....
View Article2013 Supplemental: A Year of Downloadable Exclusives - Apr - Zeboyd Doubleheader
This month in the Supplemental, we'll be taking a look at two games from our friends at Zeboyd: Breath of Death VII and Cthuhlu Saves the World. These are both throwbacks to the early days of RPGs with...
View ArticleNPCs you completely despise
Throwing this one out to the internet hate machine because of my Dragon Quest 8 run in January reminded me of this topic. Basically, who do you really, really hate as a character but is an NPC that you...
View ArticleWKC2 announcement
Since the game servers will be off on June 18 D3P had decided to give the Online pass, Guild licence, extra token holding ticket with all it's concierges for free. All georama parts are grayed out so...
View ArticleTales of Xillia - English Footage
I'm surprised no one is talking about it here. Maybe I missed it? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpvRpPFzbF0 I'm really excited about this and have a pre-order placed. I haven't played a Tales game...
View Article2013: A Year of PS2 Greats - Apr - Okami
Really excited about the turnout so far this year. Thanks to everyone for participating. Anyway, on to April. This month, we'll be playing Okami, a story drenched in Japanese mythology. The game is an...
View ArticleI just had a retro nerdgasm!
You know I'm going to gush all over this on the next RPGBacktrack we record. Wizardry 6,7 and...best of all... 8... are all on sale now on GoG. They are all harder to find (much less get to install and...
View Article2013 Supplemental: A Year of Downloadable Exclusives - May - Half Minute Hero
Yes, I refrained from using the full name of the game in the heading, because it was already long enough. This month, we're taking a look at the XBLA (and subsequent PC) version of Half-Minute Hero....
View ArticleThe Black Tower
There has been a new indie RPG announced said to be strongly influenced by jRPGs from the PSX era (and I certainly get a Final Fantasy VII feeling when looking at it) called The Black Tower. The...
View ArticleDeus Ex: Human Revolution DC coming to PS3, 360 and PC too.
And so, another Wii U exclusive goes by the wayside. I can't help but wonder why they didn't at least wait to see how it did on the Wii U before announcing this.
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Unrest: An Unconventional RPG Set in Ancient India
I'm backing this Kickstarter campaign for this promising indie game called Unrest. I really like that it takes place in a fantasy setting different from the typical pseudo-medieval Europe. I also like...
View ArticleDungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara out now
The arcade action RPG beat'em ups "Tower of Doom" and "Shadow over Mystara" are out knocking monsters around and grabbing loot like there's no tomorrow. Grab your copy on live, PSN, Wii U or even...
View Article2013: A Year of PS2 Greats - June - Dark Cloud 2
It's time to kick off the summer, and we will do so by looking at Dark Cloud 2. Released in 2003, two years after the original Dark Cloud, Dark Cloud 2 keeps many of the same systems of the first game....
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