Sony Computer Entertainment has officially revealed the sequel to last year's excellent Wipeout Pure. It's Wipeout Pulse, and will be arriving on the shiny handheld later this year.
Pulse is spec'd with 24 new race tracks over seven familiar game modes, along with the addition of a new team the EG-X. There's also talk of a new Mag-Strip feature which causes your ship to be locked to the track's surface, allowing for all manner of mental loop mischief.
Series fans fearing a handheld takeover
Disgaea 3: Absence of Detention may be coming out soon on the PlayStation Vita, but NIS America has several more titles to unveil that are PlayStation-friendly...
Feast your eyes on the latest batch of screens from the forthcoming action role-player The Witcher, which has quietly been brewing away in its native Poland for the past three years or so.
Based on a series of local fantasy novels, it's a grimmer world than your usual orcs and elves fantasy fare, being not so much good-and-evil as necessary-evil-and-evil. Casting you as (in)famous monster hunter Geralt, you'll have to make some difficult moral choices between the slightly easier choices of
CD Project RED has confirmed the release date of The Witcher Enhanced Edition has finally been set. The new version will hit British shelves in the first half of September. Fans should be overjoyed that at the top of the improvement list is a better English translation, so the dialogue might actually make sense this time around.
Aug 31, 2007
The Witcher is one of 2007's more prominent PC RPGs and, with the game due out this September, the game's developer CD Projekt must be pretty close to adding the final spit and polish.
In the meantime, we can all gawp at a dark - literally - new gameplay trailer that's been released.
The Witcher's set in the fantasy world created by author Andrzej Sapkowski, a gritty, mature universe that treads gray moral ground where the lines between good and evil are blurred.
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Sept 28, 2007
New screenshots and a trailer have just arrived for The Witcher, a high fantasy role-playing game that wants to change the way you make choices in the genre. Chief designer, Michal Madej thinks that saving and loading makes it impossible for a player's decisions to have any real meaning in the RPGs.
"Eventually it can destroy any moral problems you have in the game... If there is any situation that needs a decision, they would save the game just before. They will see what is
The Witcher: DuelMail has gone into open beta, so if last week's news on it tickled your interest then you can dip a toe into its waters.
A spin-off from the PC RPG, DuelMail is described as a next-gen web browser game that'll be completely free to play when it launches on May 9.
Two players digitally represented as one of three character classes battle it out, with the victor garnering XP (and possibly leveling up). There's also
A new patch for PC role-playing game The Witcher introduces a brand new adventure created in-house by developer CD Projekt.
The Price of Neutrality, as the adventure's named, contains around two hours of gameplay. According to the dev it "takes the player into the little explored outskirts of Kaer Morhen in a compelling story with tough decisions and more than one possible ending."
On top of that, alongside the patch is the
Straight from the heart of Poland comes these screens from The Witcher, an RPG for the PC. Aren't they lovely?
Powered by BioWare's Aurora engine, you take the lead in this real-time role-player as a warrior named Geralt who, through mutation, has become a supernatural killing machine sworn to protect the local population from werewolves and the undead. And so our hero wanders the land, picking up odd jobs, destroying monsters and leveling up through six medieval combat
Sept 5, 2007
Though traditional tabletop games have been losing ground to videogames for years, the hot new thing at this year's GenCon Indy appeared to be mash-ups that merged the best of both worlds to create the gaming equivalent of Frankensteins monster - though more friendly and less likely to lug away your girlfriend. Along with these hybrid creations, the usual MMO suspects were out in force along with a few other intriguing stragglers that we discovered.
Legends of Norath
The first of
