Top 10: JRPGs This Generation
- In honour of Final Fantasy XIII-2's release this past week, we've decided to compile a list of our ten favourite Japanese role-playing games for the current home console /...
| 9 | Having originally started out as a PlayStation 2 game, Final Fantasy XIII has certainly enjoyed a long, and sometimes bumpy development cycle. One thing has never changed though, the anticipation surrounding this game. After Lightning was first shown during E3 2006, fans were eagerly waiting the next small snippet of news. They just wanted to find out more about the next installment into one of the most successful franchises of all time. Well, the wait is over. Final Fantasy XIII is finally here and it comes packed with plenty of new innovations and a completely new cast and story. » Read the full review |
- In honour of Final Fantasy XIII-2's release this past week, we've decided to compile a list of our ten favourite Japanese role-playing games for the current home console /...
- Although the original suffers from mixed feelings amongst Final Fantasy fans, Final Fantasy XIII-2 is something that's very real and is coming out just next week, believe ...
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- While we do have the console specific awards, this is the big daddy of all the awards, the Game of the Yeard Award. There have been hundreds of games released this year, b...
- Jump back four years and the PlayStation 3 had just launched with a lineup of mediocre games. Struggling to keep up with the Xbox 360 in online and multiplatform games, So...
- Microsoft's Xbox 360 is best known for Xbox Live and its huge online community, and of course, Halo. Even so, there have been some interesting - surprising, even - release...
- This console generation has seen a remarkable shift in what it means to be a role-playing game. Elements that have traditionally been exclusive to RPGs - such as leveling...
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- There was a time when the only information that you could get about an upcoming game was in magazines. You would subscribe to your favourite one (perhaps more) knowing tha...
- Tokyo Game Show 2009 may not have had the biggest scoops or as many surprise announcements as gamers were hoping, but there certainly wasn't a lack of great games on displ...