Kingdom Under Fire is a strange breed. The original games on the Xbox were a healthy mix of real-time strategy and sword-and-shield brawling, but apparently that involved too much thinking. Blue Side effectively removed all that pesky thought-requiring strategy and left us with Circle of Doom — a fairly straightforward hack-and-slash RPG with just enough [...]

An Electronic Arts analyst report has revealed that developer BioWare is working on a new sequel to the massively successful franchise Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.

Of All the Mass Effect news (see: DLC and Target Rumor) that’s been popping up lately, this is the only one that shouldn’t surprise. The popular title has officially been announced to hit PC’s in May 2008.

Let’s preface this by saying that Steam is a free platform. You can go and create an account right now with no charge, and never buy a game. So while many will argue that it is unfair to compare the 15 million user base of Steam to the 10 million user base of World of [...]

First he says no; then he says maybe. Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII director Hajime Tabata dangles the carrot and hints at what it would take for a FFVII remake. Hit the jump for more.

The release date rumors regarding Final Fantasy XIII received an official response from Square Enix via the press section of their North American website. The full statement can be found below.

Head Computer, dial up the internet. I have an idea. If there is one lesson the internet has taught us, it is that you should under no circumstance mess with geeks. It’s a lesson Cooper Lawrence is learning the hard way.

Character designer Tetsuya Nomura has revealed that “2008 will be the year” for titbits of Final Fantasy XIII info, in addition to a playable demo.

The latest issue of Jump featured screens from the upcoming Final Fantasy XIII and its seemingly obligatory spin-offs. They look good.

Not an actual scan from this month’s Nintendo Power Towards the end of this month’s Nintendo Power, the fine folks over at that publication teased us by saying “Next month’s cover story is an RPG so fantastic, so engrossing, so epic, and so hush-hush that we’d have to erase your memories if we told you [...]

Welcome to our first annual “Ripten Game of the Year Awards,” or “Rippy” as Chad likes to call it. After much debate, we decided to base our game of the year on a collective vote, and allow the rest of our list to be governed by the scores we handed out during the course of [...]

Xbox Evolved claims that in talks with very reliable sources evidence has presented itself in the form of, well, we don’t know what form of evidence they saw. They just won’t show us, but what they did is tell us all about is what may be headed to our XBLA. Banjo, Ms. Dark, or dare [...]

In the upcoming issue of GFW Magazine, Gas Powered games (Dungeon Siege, Supreme Commander) revealed their new IP, Demigod. Interestingly enough, their new outing was in part inspired by a fan-made map for Warcraft III, Defense of the Ancients.

Apparently three long years of service were enough for the small community of gamers that still played Monster Hunter on their Western Playstation 2s.

Official Playstation Magazine UK features Final Fantasy XIII and Final Fantasy Versus XIII in their Big 10 Stories in their latest issue. It doesn’t offer much in terms of new info, but it provides a good summary of everything that’s been released so far, as well as some nice screenshots. Hit the jump to see [...]