There are more RPGs in existence than the current population of China. Not even the most devoted RPG fan could have sampled them all. Even yet, there were many which fell through the cracks under the bigger titles which were released. Here are 8 Role-Playing Games (in no particular order) you may or may not have forgotten.
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Once in a while I hear about the release of a new downloadable game — a new XBLA or PSN title — and I look for some reviews of it. Often, I don’t find much.
Downloadable games for major consoles are, across the board, reviewed fewer times than disc-based games. This is an issue people in the games industry and the media are aware of, and for some, it’s a frustration.
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Home beta testers are experiencing all the sights, sounds and action of Ubidays 08 through Playstation Home’s new Media & Events Space.
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Australia’s award-winning games writer Jason Hill writes: "Australia’s Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw has rapidly become one of the world’s most-loved game reviewers, his popularity evidenced by last week’s chaotic scenes at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image.
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Yahtzee also kindly gave up some of his precious time last week for the interview below, in which he explains the genesis of Zero Punctuation, his reaction to fans, and other topics like the benefits and pitfalls of living in Australia."
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A student at the University of Evanston discovered that his Xbox 360 had been stolen from a closet he had locked it in. As either a gesture of good will, a consolation prize or just for giggles, the thief left an original Xbox in its place.
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Gamersyde writes:
"Our prayers have been answered, and Beyond Good & Evil 2 has been announced. The trailer is uploading, but here are some images first."
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Once a taboo amongst all those impressively fraudulent hobbies listed at the bottom of a CV, gaming now takes pride of place.
It’s becoming increasingly common for gamers to list things like running World Of Warcraft guilds in their applications, and increasingly common for employers to recognise the organisational, managerial and inter-personal skills such experience brings.
And, just as employers are now routinely checking applicants’ FaceBook pages to gauge their characters, there’s no reason for them not to check their online gaming identities.
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A cucumber, a bottle, a cup – innovative new control tech, awesome video demo inside.
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PSonly Writes: "Square Enix has today announced the sales of games over the previous year. This year ran over the period 1 april 2007 and March 31, 2008. The list exists for a large part of Nintendo games, yet the second in Japan welcomed by the PSP title Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII with over 800,000 sales."
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PCGH has two new screenshots and a brand new video (2:42 mins long) that shows technical aspects of the DX10 game engine.
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Lots of new game titles announced at Ubidays, including Shaun White Snowboarding, Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party, Allen Carr’s Easyway to Stop Smoking, My Fashion Studio and Dogz 2008.
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After the first game in the series floundered in the market, few thought that Michel Ancel’s “adult Zelda” would get another shot, but sometimes good game franchises actually get a break.
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One of the best-known events in off-road racing, the Score International Baja 1000 game will feature a wide variety of vehicles and blistering conditions that the race is known for.
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With 16,500 downloads on Xbox Live, Mike “Gabe” Krahulik is pretty stoked over the results. Considering that the game was also , it makes the sales sweeter still for the web-comic makers.
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