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4 years ago
Feature: Reckon You Should
Have You Played? is an endless stream of game recommendations. One a day, every day of the year, perhaps for all time. Few better games have been given a tougher break than Kingdoms Of Amalur: Reckoning [official site]. A truly wonderful epic, bright, and action-led RPG, it was screwed from every direction. It deserves your attention still.
6 years ago
Feature: Reckoning
There's a game you probably didn't play. It came out last year, it's a genuine epic, a vast, elaborate RPG with a sprawling story and vast numbers of sidequests. It features superbly in-depth combat, has huge variety in character design and levelling, and lets you instantly wander from the main plot and explore its enormous world to your own entertainment. It's Kingdoms Of Amalur: Reckoning.
7 years ago
The saga of 38 Studios continues to be an eternally springing font of sad. A wrenching 379 layoffs are, of course, the centerpiece of this Shakespearean tragedy, but further fallout has revealed incredibly sketchy mortgage practices for relocated employees, and now, Joystiq's reporting that Reckoning 2 was in pre-production before Curt Schilling's money Titanic collided with an iceberg that was also the apocalypse. And, to make…
Generally, the weekend is life's pause button. But occasionally, things happen. Strange things. Vile things. Things involving incessant backstabbery and good people falling on impossibly hard times. Oh, wait, I'm just describing yesterday's Game of Thrones (wasn't it great?). No, no, the real world weekend actually yielded a bloom-lit bounty of good news. In short, Kingdoms of Amalur developer 38 Studios (and subsidiary Big Huge…
When we last glanced in Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning developer 38 Studios' direction, trouble was afoot - but it was tiptoeing, perhaps while disguised as some form of shrubbery. Now, though, things have taken a whiplash-inducing turn for the worst. In short, Joystiq reports that former baseball star Curt Schilling's unlikely venture has borrowed a total of $75 million from the state of Rhode Island…
Kingdoms of Amalur creators 38 Studios, who are based in Providence, Rhode Island, are apparently in talks with that state about their financial difficulties, as reported by this Providence newspaper. Superbly-named governor Lincoln Chafee said: "We're always working to keep Rhode Island companies solvent, and that's what we're doing with 38 Studios." Reportedly, the game sold 410,000 copies across all formats - a figure which…
Well, in the game, at least. The latest add-on for Kingdoms Of Amalur: Reckoning will invite you to "Explore the city of Idylla, which magically floats in the sky above the Teeth of Naros." What are those things? Well, one is a city that magically floats in the sky, and has twenty new quests in it, and the teeth are "a forgotten land" which apparently…
The Legend of Dead Kel, the first big DLC for swords and conversation RPG Kingdoms of Amalur is arriving tomorrow, letting you loose on the treacherous island of Gallow's End in search of haunted pirate booty. It's a chunk of story-driven content with a focus on player housing, featuring "the most expansive player housing option yet," and if there's one thing I need in my…
The news beacon of Electronic Arts has been lit, signalling the approach of a large story-driven DLC for Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning. The expansion, called The Legend Of Dead Kel, takes place on the island of Gallow's End, where you can "claim ownership of a vast personal estate" and also kill new monsters with new and interesting weapons. There's been lots of work put into…
We've already had a taste of Kingdoms' blank stares and fighting-game type combat in the demo, but a new trailer shows much more of the world, and rather fancy it looks, too. It shows how the stories are told, as well as showing off some of the more impressive locations. There's some emphasis on the side-quests, and it promises "secrets" scattered across the landscape, presumably…
38 Studios/Big Huge Games' promising but awkwardly-named RPG Kingdoms of Ham Sandwich: Baconing is only three weeks away now, and you can treat your EYES and EARS and FINGERS and WHATEVER OTHER ORGANS YOU USE TO PLAY GAMES WITH to a fairly sizeable Amalur demo from the Steams right now. So far it's content I already played for a preview a while back, but it's…
You know, I didn't bat an eyelid at the Mass Effect/Dragon Age pre-order crossover stuff, because it seemed like a random lark within Bioware games. Not so! And not limited to the preemptory pounds, either. EA look like they're going to try the cross-pollinatory approach across a bunch of their other games, too, starting with Mass Effect and Kingdoms Of Amalur demos. We mentioned this…
It's yet another Kingdoms of Amalur video. There have been so many that I almost skipped straight past this one, continuing on my way through the internets in search of something more succulent. An unfathomable urge caused me to linger, however, and to watch. I'm glad I did because it's the first time any footage of the game has managed to convince me there'll be…
What I presume will be the final 2011 "insider" video for Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning focuses on its action-RPGness, which means talking about the combat and the stuff that articulates the combat, the art and animation. It's quite an interesting angle to take, actually, looking at how the animators have to try and portray the fight 'em up mechanics that the designers are trying to…
Bonjour! Je suis le happy de vous bring les nouvelles il ya un nouveaux Royaumes de Amular: Reckoning vidéo, et pour some raisons, il est en français. Eh bien, il a subtitles français. C'est sous!
Footage of Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning makes it clear that the fateless hero will spend a great deal of time ending the destinies of almost everything he comes across. As Alec's hands-on experience taught him, having an open world doesn't mean an RPG has to be about exploring and collecting vegetables. It can also be mostly about killing things, which isn't necessarily a bad thing.…
The latest dev diary from the Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning team (which you can see below) details a bit about how the class system works. We've heard a bunch about this before, it's their "destiny" system that tries to let players make decisions about their character creation as you progress, rather than being defined by your character choice at the start, and then only slot…
8 years ago
Feature: A force of destruction
I’m writing this about Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning while sat on the train on the way to go play a few hours of Skyrim, which means I’m suffering more than the usual degree of mental discombobulation. Which open world is which? Which was the one with the Red Legion? Which was the one where I was battling rock trolls atop wobbly rope bridges? Which was…
Pleasingly-looking RPG Kingdoms Of Amalur: Reckoning (which Alec got to have a look at in detail recently and will be writing about soon) has a new trailer, with a lot more detail about what's going on in the world, and what you can expect to see and do a "hero" of that world. Go take a look, below. (Via Blue.)
Twenty-two minutes! That is longer than some wars. It's a big watch, but I have to admit I am 67.34534% more interested in this fantasy RPG combat game now, having seen a little more of what it offers outside combat, combat, combat. I mean let's not be tricky about this: there's a lot of killing beasts going on in the breadth of these twenty-two minutes,…
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