Skyrim: Dawnguard Trailer

A few months ago, Bethesda Studios released the Skyrim Creation Kit which provided endless fan-made content for the game. The Creation Kit, along with other add-ons such as Kinect Voice integration, improved kill animations, and horse combat brought the franchise into an overdrive.

But those are just few of what Bethesda has in store for us. Last month, they announced the first Skyrim expansion: Dawnguard.

Dawnguard is scheduled to be for release on June 26 for the Xbox 360 and no release dates yet for the PC and PS3 versions. The add-on revolves around the Dawnguard, an organization dedicated to hunting Vampires and stopping the return of the vampire Lord Harkon, who intends to use an Elder Scroll to permanently blot out the sun. The players can choose whether to aid the Dawnguard, or join the Vampires, becoming a Vampire Lord themselves in the process.

Here is the trailer  for Dawnguard:

From the beginning, the leaders of Bethesda made it clear that unlike with Oblivion (i.e: Horse Armor Expansion) they’re not going to release small pieces of DLC, instead they aim to provide “substantial” and large expansions (similar to Morrowind) for Skyrim.

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Source: rob_keyes via Game Rant

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Retro Games: Final Fantasy Endless Nova

I've been looking through my old stash of games again recently and I remembered one of the games that I got addicted to back then. It's Final Fantasy: Endless Nova by Delita Hyral X and Orochi Kusanagi of VELV. Yes, It's one of those free fan-made Final Fantasy games that was actually completed using the RPG Maker 2000 software.

Endless Nova consists of over 40 hours of gameplay, roughly 300 maps, working mini games including an arcade and casino system, side quests, stat-building skill (similar to Final Fantasy II) and a trade system allowing you to get rare items.

Final Fantasy Endless Nova can be downloaded here.
(RTP for RPG Maker 2000 is required to run the game)

Source: Velv (Official site, inactive since 2007)

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Power Rangers Online, Possible US Release

According to South Korean game company, Ntreev Soft, a side scrolling MMO titled Power Rangers Online will be coming out in the latter half of 2011.

A teaser site for the game is now online. It showed an image of Mahou Sentai Magiranger which is aired in South Korea as Power Rangers Magic Force in 2006 (and adapted as Power Rangers Mystic Force in the US in the same year). 

Power Rangers Online will be released in South Korea, to be published by Ntreev Soft, known for creating Pangya, and Daewon Media. It will be developed by IRONNOS, creators of Crimson Gem Saga​. It will be a side-scrolling action MMO. A closed beta is said to be on its way in the near future, with a full release by the end of the year.

For now, it is still unclear what series will be the basis of the game and how far will it stray from the said source. We don’t even know if it will really be a Power Rangers game. Korea has had both the Americanized Power Rangers and the Japanese original Super Sentai broadcast there, so the game could take either series as the template for the game. While some would argue whether or not that matters, the two series are different from each other, and choosing one over the other could affect how people view the game.

Why should we care? Well first, Ntreev Soft does have a US branch. Second, the Power Rangers series still goes on today, so does the Super Sentai Series. Third, Super Sentai does have a growing fanbase outside Japan nowadays so even if the game is based on the American Power Rangers or it's original Japanese Super Sentai series, a North American localization is still possible... and hopefully, it does happen. We fans want to try the game too.

Source: Dualshockers via GameRant

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Retro Games: Star Wars - Yoda Stories [PC]

As a follow up to my previous Indiana Jones retro game post, Well 2 years after that game was released, LucasArts did another one. Star Wars - Yoda Stories follows the adventures of Luke Skywalker under Yoda's training. It has the exact same gameplay as Indiana Jones and His Desktop Adventures though.

And just like the previous game, this is also no longer sold by LucasArts. Anyway, here's the full version.
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Retro Games: Indiana Jones and His Desktop Adventures [PC]

I just found a couple of old games in my old hard drive. Here's one: Indiana Jones and His Desktop Adventures by LucasArts. The only Indiana Jones game to be presented in a top-down perspective with orthogonal movement in 2D. Follow Indy to random adventures in the fictional world of Lucasio, fight bad guys, find some treasure, explore... ah, the memories.

This is no longer sold by LucasArts nowadays, Here's the full version. Enjoy

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Retro games: Doom 1 and 2

Here's a couple of retro games. Doom 1 and 2 hehehe

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Retro games: Quake 1

One of the first FPS Games that I played. I missed this game.

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