Square Enix is known for its RPG (role-playing game) like Kingdom of Heart, Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy. Now a third person shooter is under their belt, the game is named The 3rd Birthday. Both Square Enix and Sony want their products to go more global then they now are. The 3rd Birthday will be the third part in the famous Parasite Eve series. Last game of the series Parasite Eve was released nine years back in 2000. to create the suspense very few information is released under the section of plot. The 3rd Birthday is a spin-off from the Parasite Eve series, that’s why the title Parasite Eve is not included in the title. The game will see the return of Aya Brea main protagonist the previous games. Design of the game is changed significantly from the predecessors. But as it is number three in the series and have “3” in the name, fans are referring it by the name of “Parasite Eve 3”. The game will release on Sony’s PlayStation Portable. Releasing dates are yet to be confirmed by the developers.

What ever is revealed by the developers, plot of the game revolves around Aya. Late on the Christmas Eve, Aya and few other members of CTI are called into the headquarter. Reason is an outbreak of attacks in Manhattan. Creatures named as Twisted are behind these attacks. These characters suddenly emerge from mysterious time contortion. Any details about the time contortion and creatures will be revealed later. Just like the other games of the series main focus of the game will be Aya. Although her age is some where in the middle thirties, but due to her powers she still looks like a twenty years old. Reason to keep Aya in her twenties was given by the Motomu Toriyama, Chief scenario Director as it will be hard to focus on a woman in her mid thirties and playing a role of a cool and independent woman. The game was announced in 2007 in Japan. A teaser released shows Aya in wedding dress, however nothing is explained about it.

Initially the game was announced only to be released on mobile phones, but later in an private fan event, it was announced for PSP. A trailer was shown at Tokyo Game Show. It shows events of Parasite Eve and Parasite Eve 2 and then switching to the events of 3rd Birthday. The teaser starts with Aya in a street and snow is falling, a time cortex slowly opens near her. Continuing it shows a guy offering his hand to Aya, the guy is believed to be Kyle Madigan returning from Parasite II. an unknown creature emerges from the cortex and attacks Aya. The teaser ends with the logo of The 3rd Birthday and confirming that the game is exclusively developed for PSP. Another trailer shows Aya in a church. A mysterious figure is standing at the end of the church when she approaches the figure, he opens fire on Aya. According to the gaming magazine Famitsu The 3rd Birthday should be at Tokyo Game Show 2009.

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Resonance of Fate is another console role playing game in the, the genre that has gave us games like Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy and Pokémon. In Japanese the game is known as End of Eternity. It is developed by Tri-ace and will be published Sega. The platforms it will be released are PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Developers are not considering Wii, a much famous console because there are already many role playing games released for Wii. It will be released under the genre of Sci-Fi/Fantasy RPG. Resonance of Fate will be released somewhere in Q4. The developers Tri-ace stated that the game is completed by 65%.

The game starts in distant future; Earth is suffering drastic Environmental changes. Why nobody knows, reasons are unknown. A poisonous layer pervaded the land and this leads to taking mankind on the Edge of extinction since they are not able to adapt to the new changes. To survive remaining humans built a gigantic device called Basel, its cleans the surrounding air and thus the environment. Civilizations starts to build around Basel, with building a city around the Basel. High class lives on the apartments built on the top of the Basel and lower class is living in the districts build around the base. Everything goes well for many years until one day, when humans discovers that the Basel is not working right.

There will be three main characters in the game as:

Zephyr – he is 17 years old and serves as the main protagonist of the game. He is an orphan and rose in childcare facilities. His outlook for the world is tough, as he believes there is no God. He meets Vashyron in his late teens, while working for a Private Military Firm (PMC), beginning his life as a mercenary soldier. In the release screenshots of the game he seen carrying two sub-machine guns.

Vashyron – 26 years old man, he served for the army and later opened his own PMC for living. He meets Zephyr on an mission of suppressing teenage rioters, and inviting him to join his company. He is a survivor during his military days, as all of his squad members were killed. It looks like he prefers handguns.

Subject 20 – A 19 years old girl who is born and raised in research facility. The name 20 is given to her because of the experiments on her. Her body is biologically programmed to expire on her 20^th birthday. After knowing this she escapes the facility, intending to defy her inevitable fate.

The promotion for the game is started on April 1^st 2009. Tri-ace released a teaser with countdown timer leading to the next week. Resonance of Fate was slated to consoles of Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 as a new RPG. Before any news release further by Tri-ace it was revealed on Famitsu that the game will be named as End of Eternity in Japanese. For the first time Tri-ace and Sega are coning together for a game. Takayuki Suguro will be the direct the game. he previously worked for Tri-ace on projects like Final Fantasy Tactics, Vagrant Story, and Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria. Not to create a confusion with the Isaac Asimov’s science fiction novel of the same name games title was changed.

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Demon’s Souls or Demonzu Souru is a console role playing game. It is developed by From Software, who recently developed Ninja Blade. Demon’s Souls is developed for exclusively for PlayStation 3. The game is set in the fiction world of Boletaria. It is a kingdom that was destroyed after the appearance of beast and demons. The game features a dark fantasy theme. Demon’s Souls is described as a spiritual successor to the famous King’s Field series of PlayStation 3 consoles. The game is published by Sony Computer Entertainment. Date for the release of the game is North America and Europe is still to be announced. It will be release in single player as well as online multiplayer mode.

There are three versions of the game that are currently available in the market Asian (Korean), Asian (Korean) and Japanese. These versions differ in language, voicework and texts. Story of the game is revolves around King Allanti the twelfth. He is search of power and opulence, controls the power of souls. Thus he brings extraordinary prosperity to his kingdom of Boletaria. Everything was going fine until one day a thick black fog starts covering lands outskirts and cutting the kingdom from outer world. Those who tries top enter the fog never returned back. Vallarfax of the royal Twin Fangs broke free from the fog and tells the world of Boletaria about the dilemma. The aging King Allanti in order to save the world awakens the Old One, the greatest beast below Nexus, from the eternal chamber of the demon. And also to fight the fog he also awakens the soul craving demons. They are the one that lost their souls along with their mind. As time passed by the situation grew into chaos with mad attacking sane. The demons stronger and powerful with each soul they eat greedily. Legends are told from men to men about the powerful warriors who entered the cursed land but never returned back.

Main land of the Demon’s Soul is Kingdom Boletaria. Nexus is a hub world that takes place between missions, its small town like area. Player can shop, interact with NPCs and store equipments. With the help of portals the actual game world is divided into five worlds. From the five worlds first is Boletaria Palace, ruins where Boletaria rulers used to live once. Second is a tunnel known as Stonefang Tunnel, it dwarven mine, now run by corrupted by and overrun by goblin like creatures. Tower of Latria is the third world, its dark abandoned prison tower. Halls of the prison are haunted and pursued by Cthulhu-inspired guard. A Cliffside ruin named Shrine of Storms is the nest world, it crawled by dead flying creatures known as Strom Beasts. Last and the final world is the most unsafe of them all. It is known as Valley of Defilement, a deep canyon in the centre of the Earth full of poisonous snakes, leeches trolls and sheer drops. You can explore any of these locations in any order.

The game features an open-ended dark fantasy action RPG. Just like the most of the RPG games you will be able to customize many features. These include setting gender, hair style, character and others. You will be using many kind of weapons as the beast you will face in the game will be many time larger then you. One best feature of the gameplay of the game is the alteration of gameplay according to the weapon you are using. There are ten different classes in the game to choose from each of them will have different starting attributes. Some of the classes are: Priest, Knight, Thief, Magician, Soldier, Wanderer, Royal, Hunter, Barbarian, and Temple Knight.

Co-operative mode for the game can hold upto three players. In the educational mode or messaging mode players can leave advice and hints in the game for the other players. In additional to that to make game look competitive a player can force another gamers world and play as an opponent. An 192 pages softcover book was released on 2009/4/2. The guide is known as “Demon’s Souls Official Perfect Guide.” The book was published by Enterbain. The guide contains everything about the game starting from data over weapon armor, items and secrets and map.

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If you are feeling down due to the end of Dungeon Siege or you want to enjoy the Sins of Solar Empire and Supreme Commander, soon there will be an option for you all Players. Demigod is an upcoming game, releasing on April 14^th 2009. The developer of the game Gas Powered Games describes the game as an action/RPG/RTS hybrid. Demigod can also be described as fractional inspiration of the Warcraft III custom map Defense of the Ancients. The gameplay is a combination of both of the game genres. The players have an ability to choose certain heroes that rely on either their own power as a single unit of the power of creating multiple units. The Game will be published by Starbuck Games.

Prior to the Demigod Gas Powered Games is known for games like Dungeon Siege franchise and Supreme Commander. In Demigod players will take control of their own Demigod, a powerful combat monster. You have to lead the Demigod it in battle against enemy forces and you have to ensure that Demigod cannot assault the player’s position. It was confirmed on April 7, 2008 that the release date of the game is pushed back from late 2008 to February 2009. There’s a no on-disc copy protection. For the multiplayer the game will make use of Stardock’s Impulse program. First official trailer of the game was released on July 24, 2008, showing first actual footage of the game. Mike Marr replaced John Comes as the lead designer for the game on July 29, 2008. Beta version of the game was released on September 4, 2008; those ordered the game in advance can download the game.

Beat 2 was released in December 2008, with many bugs of the game fixed. Total 19 bugs were fixed in the Beta 2. More modifications were made in Beta 2 in January 2009. This time the games’ balancing was fixed. Beta 3 released on February 20, 2009 featured many of the concerns with the previous Beta tester 2C and 2D. This version of contains two of the Demigods left out in Beta 2. Other then the Demigods features such as new persistent online multiplayer mode called The Pantheon, and 4 new multiplayer modes. Main focus of this version however was on balance and variety as well as the testing of the new game mode Pantheon. To get the beta version a person must have to pre-order the game from the official website. The cost of the pre-order only is charged to the account once the person receives either the full or the beta. Demigod will be launched onle on Microsoft Windows.

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Once again you’ll have to stand against the most fearful enemies you ever want to fear the Living Deads. The players once again have to make your way out of the thousands of living deads. An large inventory full of blood drinking weapons. Capcom presents Dead Rising 2. It is a sequel of Dead Rising. This time however instead of fighting zombies in a shopping mall like the it’s predecessor, Dead Rising take place in open space’s of Las Vegas. The city is loaded with casinos and flesh-eating deads. Dead Rising is a multi genre game. The gameplay of Dead Rising is a mixture of survival horror video game with RPG and action adventure elements. After enjoying fame in sports game’s like Major League Baseball 2K8 2K Sports Major League Baseball Front Office Manager, Blue Castle decided to go for other genre’s of gaming. There first stop was Survival Horror and everybody knows what is the status of Dead Rising in the genre. Blue Castle Games got the support of some former members of Dead Rising team, like Keiji Inafune. Distributors of Dead Rising 2 are Capcom. The game will be available for the PlayStation 3, Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360 platforms. Multiplayer option is not involved in the game, may be because of the fact that single player itself seems so exciting and interesting.

Gameplay is common to Dead Rising and many other Survival Horror games. It was confirmed by a video launched on the internet. The situation in front of the player is twice as difficult of the other games. The task is not just survival they have to complete specific missions as well. Many new things are included in the game that can be used to attack zombies like motorcycles, slot machines, and a giant hamster ball. These objects will further enhance the survival horror settings. It will be exciting to use this kind of objects in defense. The protagonist is still not named, but according to Inafune the new protagonist is more interesting than the previous hero, Frank West. The missions will also feature great variety. The much talked Time management mechanic of the original game is retained. Everybody agrees on the fact that AI for the NPC’s was diabolical. You may not enjoy saving survivors as they act stupidly in the game. If you’ll arm them with weapons they will act like cowards and run for their lives instead of fighting.

Dead Rising 2 starts several years later what happened in the first part of the game. It will follow the infamous zombie invasion of Willamette. The zombie virus was not destroyed completely in Dead Rising and spread throughout U.S.A. Dead Rising 2 depicts the story of a country where zombie outbreak continues to strike. The player has to fight zombies in fictional city called Fortune City, a gambling paradise inspired by Las Vegas. Grand Casino is the place the game starts from. The infection soon spreads throughout the country. Interactivity of the game is amazingly improved. Many things which are destructible and which are ready to pick up and used against zombies. Only problem with the game is controls they kept on confusing. The toughest one of them is Lariat spin. The most awkward control of the game is using left click to aim the gun where most of the games use right to aim.

Dead Rising was a proven hit from the first day of its release; a sequel was in demand after the release. There were many rumors about the game regarding release date and developers. Officially the game was announced on February 9, 2009. It confirmed the games existence rumors and the viral video, which was the first look of the game. The game is once again in the hands of Inafune, who is serving as game’s producer as well as Capcom’s global head of research and development. Various team members of the Dead Rising was also included in the game.

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imageepoch is going out of handheld consoles to main course consoles. After the success of the games like Luminous Arc 1 and Luminous Arc 2 for Nintendo DS, they are planning a game for Wii, Arc Rise Fantasia. It will be a fantasy role-playing game and will be published by Marvelous Entertainment. imageepoch announced Arc Rise Fantasia in for release in Japan and North America in 2009.

The game was previously known as Project Ray. The game is under development from September 4, 2007. Hiroyuki Kanemaru is the director of the game. He earlier worked for Telnet Japan and then moved to Namco Tales Studio. At Namco he worked as level concept designer and script director for Tales of Symphonia. In an interview Kanemaru stated that Arc Rise Fantasia or Project Ray is influenced by old-school RPGs from systems such as the PC-Engine/TurboGrafx-16. Project Ray was also shown to exist with Project Salamander Project S. It was known as World of Destruction for the Nintendo DS. Popular Japanese magazine Famitsu was the first one to reveal the game on June 25, 2008. Following day the article featured on Internet. The Japanese release date of June 4, 2009 was announced on March 6^th 2008.

Arc Rise Fantasia is set in Meridian Empire. A lot of problem is cause by the creatures called “Contaminant Dragons” while passing Meridian in flocks. If any of the Dragon is killed, the resulting explosion poisons the whole area. When the empire receives a word that that a massive horde has its sight on the capital of Diamant. It immediately sends army to fight them. The army also includes L’Arc a cool and collected mercenary, and his friend Arth or Alphonse, the prince of the capitol and second in line for throne. L’Arc is severally injured in the battle and saved by a girl named Ryfia. Her past is unknown and she possesses the power of controlling Ley Squalls, natural-occurring storms of magic that usually take the form of luminous rain. A lady named Adelle, who’s been friend to L’Arc since childhood, renders assistance to pay the party through use of her unique form magic, Luminomancy.

The game is turn based RPG. There are three-character parties, with single AP gauge shared by the team. It empties as various actions are performed. Multiple attacks are also possible as well as massive attacks that will drain a lot of AP. Those skills will increase which are used by the same players. Summons beast called “Roguresu” are also included in the game.

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White Gold: War in Paradise is a sequel to the famous Boiling Point: Road to Hell, which released in 2005. It was released by the name of Xenus II:  in Russia. Deep Shadows is the Game Studio behind White Gold: War in Paradise. Microsoft Windows version of the game was released on October 24, 2008. Other version of Xbox 360 will be released in summers of 2009. Game engine for White Gold: War in Paradise will be Vital Engine 3. An upcoming space simulation RPG Precursors, Deep Shadows is also run’s on Vital Engine 3.

After the success of Boiling Point Deep Shadows were looking for a game of same kind of gameplay. Their search was ended by White Gold: War in Paradise. This game will run on their in-house game engine, Vital Engine 3. Use of Vital Engine 3 is what makes White Gold: War in Paradise special and unique. Latest real-time rendering techniques are used by Vital Engine 3. This includes technique like Shader Model 3 and other post processing effects like Depth of field, Motion blur, and HDR. The physics system seems much more enhanced compared to Vital Engine 2. The gameplay includes much better handling of vehicles, and destructible objects. A new huge unified game world, which will avoid loading screens and level switching, is also included in White Gold: War in Paradise. Bugs which bring criticism to Boiling Point: Road to Hell is eradicated from White Gold.

Main protagonist of the game is a retired veteran of a special military squad. He was a soldier of the Caribbean region and is well aware of the region. On a failed mission, most of the main soldiers of his squad are killed. Only survivors include him and his friend. His friends due to shock of the mission leisurely losses his mind and the main character of the game gave himself to heavy drinking. Meanwhile a new drug is set up in Europe and South America. Identical to other drugs like heroine and cocaine this drug is much more lethal. Government of the respective areas is in shock of the sudden deaths of the younger population and realizes that life of others is also in danger. Drug mafias are condemned for this situation and Special Services send men out and receive them back dead. The government then recalls the main character of the game and offers him an un-known proposal, which he cannot refuse. After that, he finds himself on one of the many Caribbean islands and starts his investigations.

A first trailer of the game was released on February 27, 2007. From the trailers it is clear that game has better inventory, improved handling with hero is involved in fast fierce battles, weapons ranges from stealth knife to airborne machineguns. Second trailer was mostly about gameplay and was launch on October 12, 2007. Gameplay of White Gold: War in Paradise can be directly linked to he gameplay of Boling Point. It shows mixture of RPG and FPS combat. Players are given to enjoy a free roaming world, with vast opening areas, diverse weapons, and water, air, and land vehicles. Character development is the one feature altered the most. Now the game features a more advanced character development system with more flexibility than the previous versions. A new perk system is also included in the game. This will give the players freedom to customize and improve their character.

Game is based on the beautiful islands of Caribbean, but they are not as beautiful as they seems. Caribbean basin features many water-separated islands completely different to the tropical Realia of the previous game. Main motive of the protagonist of the game is to unlock many mysteries about the new synthetic narcotic drug: White Gold. But finding something like that on these socially unstable islands is not easy for him. He has to face seven different kinds of enemies; this includes Mafias, Government, Civilians, Bandits, Natives, Guerrillas and CIA operatives.

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Borderlands is sci-fi first person shooter with few elements of Role Playing Game. This game is under development by Gearbox Software, who are famous for developing some most famous games round the globe, like Half Life, Counter Strike and Halo. It will be released for Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Borderlands was officially announced in September 2007 in an issue of Game Informer magazine. This is the first game in a planned franchise. Release dates are not revealed but the developers hope for a 2009 release.

Game starts in distant future when human civilization is moving to another planet named as Pandora situated on the edge of the galaxy. Several colonization ships are heading towards the planet. Humans are moving out of earth to Pandora in order to search better life and vast mineral resources said to be on the other planet. The situation seems like a futuristic gold-rush, because the resources on the planet are free for all. But to the surprise of humans, they discover that this planet is not up to their expectations & it offers very low resources, only thing present there are some alien ruins. Those who got money leaves instantly and the remaining population devolves into disorderness. Some of them tries to find out the alien technology to become rich quickly, most of them however just trying to survive. Real problem rises in front of the settlers after seven earth years, when many horrifying creatures emerges from hibernation. Now the first priority for the humans is survival. All the creatures generates randomly, as you play the game no two play through are same to each other. Only hope for the colonists on Pandora is a vault on the hill side believed to contain vast sources of alien technology.

You are given controls of three different characters; all of them are completely different from each other and are on the planet for different reasons. Mordecai is the first one he is a professional sniper and is in search of person named Yujinny’s killers and what he was carrying. Second character is a former soldier and disregards law and order. He is on the planet to kill a leader of one of the brigade; he has once sworn to kill. The third and the most interesting character is a siren who used to be a human. She got unbelievable powers but does not know how to control them. She is on the planet to search another siren to learn more about her.

Borderlands loaded with many new features. It will also have a unique feature similar to Diablo’s random level generation system. You are given to choose from 500,000 guns and 500,000 different equipments. What is special about these weapons and equipments is that they all have unique and different features. This game is built on ground-up to be an exciting and intuitive co-operative multiplayer experiences. Vehicle combat is presented in a wonderful way. Maps in the game are also randomly generated. The most attractive and unique feature of Borderlands is a system that changes the surrounding landscape, and many other elements like bunkers, towers, caves, and enemies.

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Need for Speed Undercover is the 12^th game of the most famous racing game series of the world Need for Speed. It’s developed by EA Black Box and published by Electronic Arts. It was released on PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PlayStation Portable, Wii, Nintendo DS, Microsoft Windows, iPod Touch, iPhone, N-gage 2.0., nearly on every gaming platform of the world in November 2008. This is an attempt to overcome critics, which blamed Electronic Arts for unavailability of games prior to NFS Undercover on various platforms.

Undercover features a new free roaming world map consisting of 130 km of road, and large highway system. Thus making it largest Need for Speed “open world” environment EA has ever created. The imagined city is called Tri City, and consists of four boroughs called Palm Harbor, Port Crescent, Gold Coast Mountains, and Sunset Hills. The police vehicle includes helicopters, which are not aggressive as they were in Need for Speed: Most Wanted. It is also stated by EA “there are some modes which gave you access to the range of police cars, and they are available in many certain campaign missions. Speedbracker, rechargeable nitrous, pursuit breaker, and heat levels are back in the game. The police are much tougher this time around; they will now perform PIT maneuvers.

Customization of cars resembles to Need for Speed: Carbon. The level of graphics and detail is more enhanced then carbon. Aftermarket products are again in the business a long time after first shown in Carbon. The new color palette and the “matte” paint have been hyped with a huge improvement. You can gain reputation points to access new missions simply by participating in side missions. If you perform superbly in a police chase, then also you can access new missions. Like this adding a RPG element in game. A vinyl similar to the vinyl of BMW M3 GTR in Need for Speed: Most Wanted is also added as a bonus from EA.

Games story revolves around a police officer going Undercover into the criminal underground of Tri City, a fictional City where game is set. Players take on dangerous jobs and compete in races in order to infiltrate and take down an unconscionable international crime smuggling syndicate of street racers and car thieves. The player’s only contacts to the police are federal chase linh, played by Maggie Q, and Lt. Jack M. Keller played by Paul Pape. As the player advances through the game and blends with the gangs doing, different jobs like stealing cars and later ends up taking put the bosses and their thugs. Many characters of other games of Need for Speed franchise also listed to the main villain’s acquaintances. Like Jonathan cross ex-police officer of Rockport City and Isabel “Izzy” Diaz, one of the Blacklist member of Most Wanted, and Caleb Reece, the main villain of Underground 2.

Compared to another games of Need for Speed franchise Undercover is more innovative and has a better gameplay. And is considered of longer development cycle. It was stated by experts that Undercover has drawn inspiration from action movies like Transporter. Despite being a good innovative game its reviews were not as expected. All the gaming critics passed it with an OK mark. It scored an average of 66% on most of the gaming critics like GameRanking and Metacritic. Undercover was considered extremely easy because of wider roads and spares traffic, while this may be a design to target a wider audience. Although it received average marks everywhere, but it still leading in sales compared to its rivals such as Rockstar Games’ Midnight Club: Los Angeles and EA’s own Burnout paradise.

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