Category Archive: Action / Adventure

EA Sends Players To Hell In Epic Action Game Dante’s Inferno

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Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch’intrate.* An abducted soul, a lifetime of sins, a journey to the depths of despair. Electronic Arts Inc.  announced today that EA Redwood Shores, the studio behind the hit horror game Dead Space, is now working …

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First look at GTA IV Episode 1: The Lost and Damned

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Good things come to those who wait, but we’re getting more than a little impatient for any news on the first bits of downloadable content for Grand Theft Auto IV. Long talked about and promised in “autumn” of this year …

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Preview: Blue Dragon Plus

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When released for the 360, Blue Dragon was a satisfying (if incredibly conventional) Japanese RPG for a system that at the time was lacking in the turn-based glory that consumers of the Rising Sun wholeheartedly enjoy. While it was a …

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Preview: Stormrise (X360)

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Recent history is full of console RTS ports falling over themselves in an effort to, at best, recreate something marginally evocative of the PC experience. But Vispi Bhopti, The Creative Assembly’s Communications Manager, contends that Stormrise’s control scheme, which was …

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Burda:ic Brings The Power Of The Elements To Florensia

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Burda:ic, a publisher of online games worldwide, today released a major update for the free-to-play, maritime MMORPG Florensia. The update includes a number of smaller changes, from land quest balancing to slight modifications to the user interface, but the biggest …

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Star Wars: The Force Unleashed DLC now available

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Not long after LucasArts loosed Star Wars: The Force Unleashed on a galaxy not so far away, the publisher said it was already melding a fresh batch of downloadable content for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 editions. Included in …

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Atari hires Sam and Max

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Telltale Games’ frighteningly amoral tag team of freelance police are ready to protect and serve (for a reasonable fee) once again. As part of a bevy of announcements, Atari announced this week that it would be bringing the second season …

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Nintendo Plays A Game For Me, Includes Slur

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Video game companies send me games: not surprising. Yesterday, Nintendo sent me a game they played for me: say what? In my mailbox yesterday was a copy of 2005’s “Animal Crossing: Wild World” for the DS out of the shrinkwrap …

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Quartermann: Dragon Quest IX Coming To Wii As Well?

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Last month we learned exactly how the connectivity between the Wii and DS would work in the upcoming Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time, but if the latest rumor from Quartermann in the the January issue of EGM is …

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Dragon Quest V European release date on DS

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Square Enix Ltd., the publisher of Square Enix® interactive entertainment products in Europe and other PAL territories, today announces that DRAGON QUEST®: The Hand of the Heavenly Bride™ will be released across PAL territories in Spring 2009, exclusively on the …

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