Ah Square Enix, you’ve given us some great times over the years. Your role playing games have drawn me into the greatest fantasy adventures. It’s fair to say, that you are the best and most dominant role-playing game developer in the world.

You have such a successful track record with what you do best, so why would you try to deviate from your path and team up with developer WarGaming.net to create a real time strategy game? You make RPGs, that’s it. You’re not a jack-of-all-trades, you’re not Activision or Electronic Arts. I’m almost offended that you made me waste my time on this title that I found so boring that I couldn’t even finish it! That’s right. On September 22nd, Square Enix and Wargaming.net released for the PC, Order of War, a World War 2 RTS, and let me tell you, it sucks!

Check out my video review for all of the details!

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Electronic Arts and IDW Publishing announced their partnership with two IPs: Army of Two and Dragon Age. Under this partnership, IDW will publish monthly comic series that will be released in print and online in the form of digital versions for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

Essentially, EA will create the content and IDW will make sure it gets out to the public.

Army of Two will be written by Peter Mulligan with Chester Ocampo providing covers and Dexter Soy as the penciler. Army of Two will release in January 2010.

Dragon Age will be written by Orson Scott Card with Humberto Ramos providing covers.

It’s nice to see comics joining forces with video games again, maybe EA can produce some quality content that will supplement the video game.

Fresh from the start of the 2009 Tokyo Game Show, Square Enix revealed two new trailers for their upcoming Final Fantasy MMO titles. These two trailers show a lot of info on the upcoming releases and gamers will want to take notice.

Check out the new trailers and more info.

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The Internet has a lot more utility than just porn…believe it or not. What started off as a great tool for communication has evolved into a Wal-Mart-esque center for, literally, everything. And while this convenience is great to us, to many businesses they’re forced to make drastic changes just to stay alive.

Many newspaper, magazine, and other printing-reliant industries have already made the switch from printing texts, to simply posting them online because readers have found it much easier to use their web browsers instead of their mail boxes.

So what’s next? My bet is on television, and to be honest, it’s about time.

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We all here at GotGame.com know that the website is looking a little stale. While we work on providing interesting articles, industry coverage, and now game reviews; we’ve come to realize that with all this new work we’re going to be taking on, there needs to be some more changes. Not just on the editorial, video, and forum side, GotGame.com will be looking a lot different in the coming weeks.

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Uh-Oh! Corporate bigwig Bobby Kotick has been befuddled over the successes of Sony’s PlayStation 3. Or lack there of, according to the Activision CEO.

I’m sure most of us have read the headlines concerning an interview with Mr. Kotick and The Times concerning the thoughts surrounding the CEO involving his blunt warnings that he may have to pull support to the PlayStation 3, citing poor returns on the console and lack of growth in market share.

But would he really? Would he?
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Disc formatting was all the rage back in the 90s. Discs made cassettes obsolete. They outmoded tapes. And they enshrined those good ole’ fashioned game cartridges as relics of the past.

However, with the Internet so readily available and unimaginable amounts of data so easily accessible, will the disc, and any other physical memory storing device for that matter, eventually give way to a future of online distribution?

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There is a reason why advertisement is big business. The way a product is marketed can easily lead to its success or failure.

The movie industry knows this better than anyone, and they have developed a formula that has worked out pretty well for them. Grab some Hollywood stars, jumble together some pivotal scenes, mix in moving music, and add the guy who does all those dramatic voice overs and you have yourself a potential blockbuster.

Unfortunately for many game developers - especially RPG developers - the same recipe can not be simply transferred over.

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