They say that good things come to those who wait. PS3 owners have waited a long time – so what they’re going to be getting is extra special. Former Bioware Xbox 360 exclusive (and one of our very favourite games from 2010), Mass Effect 2 will soon be making its appearance on Sony’s PS3. Bioware and publisher EA have celebrated …

Earlier today we posted that incredible Killzone 3 trailer and now we have yet another PS3 exclusive to show you and it’s on an entirely different side of the PS3. The original LittleBigPlanet was a huge critical success and was well received by fans all over the world, being able to make and share their own levels had people coming …

Companions will be making a return in Fallout: New Vegas. This time, however, they’ll do more than simply attack whatever you’re attacking/fending off/screaming like a girl and running away from. That’s good news, because the companions in Fallout 3 were a little dull to be honest. Matt Grandstaff, the Senior Community Manager for Bethesda Softworks, has written a substantial post …

It seems, from early reports that Dragon Age 2, the upcoming Bioware RPG will be getting a few console-oriented refinements – that may make the game a little more like Mass effect. The sequel won’t have the traditional dialogue tree – replacing it with the conversation wheel as seen in Mass Effect. This is to apparently make the conversation more …

If you’ve played just about any JRPG – or in fact any RPG – you may realise just how much RPG heroes are complete bastards. Apart from eventually saving the world from inevitable destruction, they’re rude, inconsiderate jackasses who’ll just barge in uninvited to the homes of the very people they’re out to protect. The protagonist causes just as much …

Every now and then, a videogame comes along that changes everything that you thought you knew about gaming. A game so epic, so magnificent, so deep and so emotional that you are blown back in the realization that a new era of gaming is upon us. Unfortunately, we didn’t receive a review copy of Karaoke Revolution, so we opted to …

While Western RPG fans are chomping at the bit waiting for the latest game in the series about androgynous emo heroes with spiky hair saving the world from certain destruction, gamers in the East are already doing so, with numerous publications reviewing the game. One such publication, a Hong Kong Based magazine has reviewed the game quite harshly indeed, going …

From the helpless damsel in distress to the typical gangbanger – gaming has always had stereotypes in place. So let’s take a look at some of the more popular examples shall we? Stereotypes in RPGs And what better place to start at than the titular (hehe) hero? Cloud Strife and Lloyd from Tales of Symphonia are but two examples. and …