A hands-on look at Nippon Ichi’s new squad based Strategy RPG.

While much of the hardcore gaming crowd has most likely migrated over to one of the next gen systems by now, fans of niche games still have a comfortable home on the PS2 thanks to game companies like Nippon Ichi and Atlus providing us with great games like Odin Sphere, GrimGrimoire, and the upcoming Persona 3 on a fairly consistent basis. Nippon Ichi’s next effort, Soul Nomad and the World Eaters, is the long awaited return to their Strategy RPG roots that fans have been waiting for ever since they had their fill of Disgaea 2. In fact, give Soul Nomad a quick glance and you’d probably think that it was in fact Disgaea 3. Despite visual similarities however, Soul Nomad and Disgaea are as different as night and day when it comes to how they are played.

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The year 2008 is starting out in spectacular fashion for Sony’s PlayStation Portable. Not long ago, the company released Patapon, an engaging platformer that combined elements of strategic gameplay with roleplaying and musical-rhythm based combat.

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Lady

(Lady DMC 2 image)

An earlier image of the mysterious Lady, a woman who lists her likes as weaponry and Chinese food. Well, OK, maybe she’s not big on the Chinese food…

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Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. announced today that World of Warcraft, its award-winning massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), has reached a new milestone, with a player base now totaling more than 9 million subscribers worldwide. The company is currently working with its partner for World of Warcraft in China, The9, to prepare the game’s first expansion, World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade, for launch in mainland China and anticipates an influx of new and returning subscribers in conjunction with that event.

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Instructions on how to obtain 2 secret Gamerpics are coming your way!

Secret Gamerpics!
To get the FASA Gamerpic crouch up and down on an enemy who has earned the Shadowrun Fever achievement. To get the Troll Gamerpic complete the Training/Tutorial mode in its entirety.

Originally from GamePro

Ending bonus:
Successfully complete the game and save. Load the saved game to play any level. You can also choose to play as some of the monsters or Bosses.

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The Lord of the Rings Online official site has been updated with a description of session play, one of the new features that will be added to the game in the next update. Session play will allow players to enter the world and play with a temporary character in the form of a troll, a ranger, or a chicken.

Our first content update, Book 9: Shores of Evendim, expanded the world of Middle-earth in The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar with new quests, content, and an entire new region. For our next update we wanted to introduce something a little different!

One of the new features to be introduced in our next big content update is what we’re calling Session Play!

Session Play is a new system that allows you to play as a character other than your normal character. These characters do not have permanence, so you don’t keep them like you do your Free Peoples or monster play characters. You could play as a Ranger, a Troll, or… a chicken. It’s an opportunity to explore Middle-earth from a different - and sometimes unexpected - viewpoint.

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It is Harry’s fifth year at Hogwarts and “He-who-must-not-be-named” is up to even more devilish mayhem that involves a new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor (beguiled into treating Harry like a pariah) and more trouble than you can shake a want at.

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The early days in the development of Warhammer Online can best be described as shaky, with projects scrapped, licenses lost and companies bought and sold but 10 days after registration opened for the MMO’s beta things are certainly looking up.

The beta registration started on May 30 and in just ten days already more than 200,000 fans had signed up, and more are welcome to do so – just follow the link below.

“Such an amazingly high number of subscribers to the website and beta test is fantastic news and very encouraging,” commented Ghislaine Le Rhun, Senior Vice President of GOA.

“It proves the game has already struck a cord with gamers who are hungry for the greatest MMO experience available. We are also delighted to be able to say a big ‘Thank You’ and to reward gamers’ loyalty and enthusiasm for WAR by offering them the chance to become part of the beta experience and to play the game months ahead of launch.”

The game itself should be out sometime early in the new year.

Originally from GamesDog