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GamersGate has slashed 50% off of 1C’s RPG King’s Bounty: Armored Princess as part of its weekend sale.

Final Fantasy XIII’s first month sales figures in North America are in, and they are quite good. Releasing simultaneously on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, Square Enix’s RPG pushed some 1.3 million copies between both consoles.

The headline does not attempt to fool you. It’s a series that’s at the top of its game and yet still, like many other things, must succumb to the modern day design trends that seem to dominate the gaming industry.

Metal Gear Solid finally gave in to the temptations of RPG. And this is not extensive cut scenes either, Konami has actually revealed some exclusive details to PlayStation: The Official Magazine.

VGArabia: I just finished FFXIII, and what I can say that it doesn’t live up to my expectations. In fact, it isn’t as good as Mistwalker’s RPG Lost Odyssey, which in my opinion is the best JRPG this generation.

Underground. Carbon. Shift. Undercover. Most Wanted. Do we really need another Need for Speed ?  The folks at EA studio Black Box seem to think so.  So fire up those engines, load up the nitrous, and get ready to head out onto an all new road.  Over the course of the next few months, thousands of players worldwide will have the opportunity to claim one of the limited slots in the PC beta for Need for Speed World.

“Need for Speed World is the world’s first MMO racer – a completely new entertainment experience for speed junkies all over the world,” said John Doyle, Need for Speed World Senior Producer. “We have expanded Need for Speed’s classic adrenaline fueled racing with an all-new power up system and deep RPG style progression to create a truly massive, socially-connected white-knuckle Need for Speed experience.”

Need For Speed World is jointly developed by Black Box, the developer of the Need for Speed franchise, and EA’s online studio in Singapore.  Need for Speed World takes popular cities from the Most Wanted and Carbon entries to create the biggest, most exciting race world ever released in the Need for Speed universe.  Racers seeking to conquer all 150 miles of open road should enlist at world.needforspeed.com.

Sharing: It’s Win/Win

RPGLand.com’s deal hunter Russ Ritchey found quite a few discounts on RPGs for the Nintendo DS this week.

You can’t help but wonder whether BioWare’s upcoming MMOG, Star Wars

The Old Republic, will be able to port the same roleplaying aspect their successful single player games are known for to a new platform. It is a question Mattlow ponders in his latest editorial.

PSX Extreme writes: "With so many RPGs hitting in 2010, including one of the most anticipated titles of the generation in Final Fantasy XIII, there’s a good chance we may all have to reshuffle our lists significantly before the year is out. But for now, what’s your favorite role-playing game of the generation?"

Examiner: A few days ago, Square Enix messed up when releasing a package of media assets to news publications. Included in the files were screenshots from both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 version of their upcoming RPG Final Fantasy XIII. The problem?

Some of the screenshots comparing the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 version were practically identical. So identical, in fact, that they appeared to be the same exact picture only with a different user interface surreptitiously photoshopped in after the fact.

News outlets called BS and in very predictable fashion, the Internet exploded. Square Enix’s public relations rep was quick to issue a hasty, "our bad," and reassure gamers that the screenshots were not only from pre-production and not intended for promotional use, but they had also been accidentally included in the asset package.

So what’s the big deal?

You’re going to find plenty of previews of Final Fantasy XIII out there that explain how the combat works, how it plays, how battles work, and undoubtedly they will be gushing about how slick and speedy it is, and they’re right to.

But RPG Site are RPG specialists, and they’ve played the import, and they’ve told you all about it in the past – so we spent our brief time with the Xbox 360 version of the game looking not at how it plays, but how well it’s been ported.