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December 16th, 2009 at 04:45pm
Under Xbox 360
Sadly, pre-ordering a copy of Divinity II: Ego Draconis from GameStop won’t net you any divinity. Or any dragons, for that matter. What you do get for putting your money down on a copy of the Xbox 360 sequel to Divine Divinity is some exclusive in-game armor and armaments, representing the Blood Echelon, “a select lodge of elite Dragon Slayers who have earned the highest of distinctions on the battlefield.”
Both online and in-store pre-orderers will be entitled to look like they’re in the Blood Echelon when they freely roam around Divinity II’s landscapes, reading minds. But only if they buy the Xbox version: the PC release does not list any bonus items. Divinity II will be available December 29.
GameStop offers pre-order bonus for Divinity 2: Ego Draconis originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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December 16th, 2009 at 02:30pm
Under PSP
Looking for a ludological stocking stuffer for the RPG fan in your life? Amazon’s Deal of the Day has you covered — three of Square Enix’s portable titles (Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII for PSP and The World Ends With You and Final Fantasy IV on DS) have had their prices rolled back to just $9.78 for today only. At those prices, you’ve got no reason not to buy one of these for your dearest friends and family. Especially family who writes for the same gaming news site as you, who let you borrow their copy of The World Ends With You in March, which you beat and then traded in, you thoughtless bastard.
[Via CheapAssGamer]
The World Ends With You, Crisis Core, FFIV just $10 today on Amazon originally appeared on Joystiq Playstation on Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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December 16th, 2009 at 03:30am
Under Wii / Nintendo
For the first time since the announcement of the game’s burial in the first quarter of 2010, WBIE has released new media for The Lord of the Rings: Aragorn’s Quest. In case you’ve forgotten about the upcoming Wii/DS/PS2/PSP action-RPG, it’s a kid-friendly game starring a cuddly incarnation of Viggo Mortensen’s Aragorn — and, in the Wii version, an equally huggable Gandalf (for a second player to handle).
It seems that, even though you’re in the middle of a war and hacking up thousands of monsters, the game’s been approved for kids because your avatar has big feet.
New trailer reminds us that LOTR: Aragorn’s Quest exists originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 16 Dec 2009 02:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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December 15th, 2009 at 09:05pm
Under Wii / Nintendo
At some point, people are going to get spoiled by Atlus’s (coincidentally named) “Atlus Spoils” program, in which the company includes some kind of bonus item with pretty much every game it releases. When the publisher doesn’t release a game with an artbook or soundtrack or figurine or something, somebody out there is going to be irritated to buy just a game.
That won’t happen with Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey, though. Atlus announced today that every launch copy of the first-person RPG will include a soundtrack disc. You’ll have to wait a bit longer to get that launch copy: the publisher also announced that the release date has moved from the March 10 date found on Nintendo’s Q1 schedule to March 23.
Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey launch copies to include bonus soundtrack originally appeared on Joystiq Nintendo on Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:05:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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December 14th, 2009 at 03:31pm
Under Xbox 360
As if the wait for Final Fantasy XIII wasn’t already difficult enough, Square Enix’s assistant PR director, Sonia Im, is making it even more torturous. On her Twitter account, Im teased “something cool most of you can participate in a few days from now” within a mysterious Square Enix memo. Im later added that the memo “eluded [sic] to something stylish.” If you squint, the date in the memo seems to be December 17, which would coincide with a PSN update.
It’s anybody’s guess past that, but we’re hoping for a totally magical Final Fantasy-themed fancy dress party for us and a few of our closest friends, set inside PlayStation Home. Can you even imagine?
That, or a demo like the one our Japanese friends already have. Either way.
Square Enix teases something ’stylish’ for FFXIII originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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December 13th, 2009 at 10:00pm
Under DS
Though Japan has been enjoying the adorable bounties of Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver for months now, us poor westerners still don’t know when to expect the games on our store shelves, or whether they’ll include the Pokéwalker accessory which allows you to take one of your encapsulated soldiers out for a discreet night on the town. Fortunately, if the games’ Amazon listings are on the money, both these Unown pieces of info have been divulged: According to the listings, they’re coming March 14, along with the Poke Ball-shaped peripheral.
The latter information actually comes from the games’ supposed box art, which we’ve posted above. We’ve contacted Nintendo to find out if the Amazon listing is authentic. If it’s not, we’re going to give them the most guilt-inspiring sad puppy face anyone’s ever seen. It will be absolutely brutal.
Amazon listing for Pokemon remakes includes March 14 release date, Pokewalker accessory originally appeared on Joystiq on Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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December 10th, 2009 at 08:30pm
Under DS
click for a Massively Multi-Image Online GalleryRemember Ragnarok DS? If you do, you’re likely an avid fan of the Ragnarok Online MMO, and thus exactly the kind of person XSEED hopes to entice with the pre-order bonuses for the DS game.
Pre-orders for the DS RPG will include exclusive in-game items for the PC game, which increase experience, attack speed, damage and other stats when used. In addition, every retail package will have more items thrown in, which increase even more stats.
While at first blush it seems obvious to target people who like Ragnarok with this Ragnarok spinoff, it actually strikes us as kind of odd. People obsessed with Ragnarok have a lot of online gaming in their lives as it is! Are they going to want to jump into some random dungeons with just a few people?
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XSEED reveals preorder bonuses for Ragnarok DS originally appeared on Joystiq Nintendo on Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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December 10th, 2009 at 02:30pm
Under Xbox 360
Mass Effect 2 is bound to have some recognizable actors, what with 90 actors voicing 546 characters with 31,000 lines of dialogue. EA revealed today that the cast includes … oh, by Grabthar’s hammer, here’s the list:
- Martin Sheen (Charlie Sheen and Emilio Estevez’s dad) — Illusive Man commanding Cerberus
- Shohreh Adhdashloo (sexy voice lady from FlashForward) — Admiral Shala’Raan vas Tonbay
- Seth Green (hand in your geek card if you don’t know) — Joker
- Yvonne Strahovski (wiener lady, lust of Chuck) — Miranda Lawson
- Adam Baldwin (a man named Jayne… or the man they call Jayne) — Kal ‘Reegar
David Keith Keith David (Halo’s Arbiter) — Admiral David Anderson- Michael Dorn (Star Trek TNG’s Worf) — Gatatog Uvenk
- Tricia Helfer (2020 Oscar winner after people stop treating her like meat) — EDI, voice of the “new Normandy”
- Michael Hogan (Colonel Saul Tigh) — Captain Bailey
- Carrie-Anne Moss (Trinity from The Matrix, singular, no sequels exist — especially not Revolutions) — Aria T’Loak
We also can’t forget Jennifer Hale, who is reprising her role as the real Commander Shepard, nor Mark Meer, the male Shepard and known expert at cutting the council off at weird times.
Mass Effect 2 cast bolstered by Battlestar, Star Trek actors originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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December 9th, 2009 at 05:30pm
Under DS
The latest Famitsu reveals a third entry in Atlus’s hardcore dungeon RPG series Etrian Odyssey (Sekaiju no Meikyuu). Etrian Odyssey 3 ditches the series’ forest setting for the seaside town of Armolode, in which an earthquake has recently uncovered — surprise! — a big labyrinth.
According to the 1UP translation, the new game will include new character classes “including prince/princess, phalanx, monk, pirate, and shinobi,” and will allow players to explore the ocean by ship when they aren’t being killed in the labyrinth. The game will be released March 4 in Japan, and has a pretty good shot at a North American release: not only has Atlus USA translated the previous games in the series, it continues to show willingness to publish first-person DS RPGs like The Dark Spire and the upcoming Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey.
Back into the labyrinth: Atlus announces Etrian Odyssey 3 originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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December 7th, 2009 at 02:20pm
Under PC+ Xbox 360
BioWare has just released a new trailer for Mass Effect 2, featuring the exploits of strategic tactician “Commander Shepard the Engineer” and his murderous robot. Much like the first game, engineer class players will rely more heavily on strategery and tech management than direct confrontation.
Lead gameplay designer Christina Norman guides us through some combat-heavy gameplay, which depicts the aforementioned android aggressor along with some cool abilities, like freezing enemies on the spot and hacking mechanized enemies. Oh, Mass Effect 2, you had us at killer ‘bot.
New Mass Effect 2 trailer showcases the Engineer class and its killer robot originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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