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• Rolston: Skyrim and Reckoning have a "lot in common" - but not combat

  38 Studios’ Ken Rolston, who famously served as lead designer on two past Elder Scrolls games, belives Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning has one massive advantage over Skyrim.

• Quick Quotes: Rolston on how some RPGs are "slow-paced, abstract, and awkward"

  “Despite the fact that RPGs have made such deep and passionate inroads into the mainstream market, I still feel they are slow-paced, abstract, and awkward. Reckoning reflects my hunger for a faster pace of action and combat drama, and a desire for simpler, easier-to-use interfaces. RPGs are naturally the deepest, longest, and most complicated kinds […]

• 15 mins from Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning 360 demo

  38 Studios and Big Huge Games have released the demo for Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning on Xbox Live. Currently available for Gold members, the game provides you with a taste of the RPG created by he New York Times bestselling author RA Salvatore, Spawn creator Todd McFarlane, and Ken Rolston, lead designer on Morrwind and […]

• Rolston: RPGs reaching a boon period, still a market for structurally sound high fantasy epics

  Ken Rolston, lead game designer at Big Huge Games, has said he feels RPGs are reaching “a boon period”, but because there’s still plenty of variety on the market at the moment, the genre isn’t tired just yet.

• Amalur's world map shows an immersive fantasy world

  38 Studios has opened up a website which gives you a more in-depth look at the world of Amalur, which is the setting for its Project Copernicus MMO and the single-player RPG, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning.

• Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning gets a story trailer

  38 Studios has released a story trailer for Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning. You can watch it below. Called “A Hero’s Guide to Amalur”, it gives you an idea of what is going on in the game. Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning lands on February 7 in North America and on February 10 in Europe on PC, […]

• Watch this 22 minute walkthrough for Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning

  Those looking forward to Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning and have 22 minutes to spare, may wish to check out the walkthrough posted below, courtesy of IGN. The RPG, a joint labor of love between indystry vets Todd McFarlane and Ken Rolston along with fantasy novelist RA Salvatore hits shelves on February 7 for PC, PS3, […]

• Quick Shots - Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning screens bring the colour

  I am quite prepared to be surprised and delighted by Kingdoms of Amalur after seeing this batch of assets.

• Ken Rolston chats up Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning

  Ken Rolston believes Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning will be just as good and any other triple-A role-playing game out there.

• Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning gets its first gameplay trailer

  EA and 38 Studios have released a gameplay trailer for Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning.

• Nice bit of assets released for Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning

  38 Studios and Big Head Games have released quite a few screenshots and bits of artwork from Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning. There’s also a cinematic trailer for it – all below the break.

• EA announces 38 Studios' Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning

  EA’s announced 38 Studios’ debut title as Kingdoms of Amalur for a fall 2011 release on PS3, 360 and PC.

• 38 Studios to reveal Project Mercury during Comic Con panel

  The official Comic-Con website has posted the panel schedule for July 22-25  convention, and included on the list is the world premiere of 38 Studios’ Project Mercury.

• Big Huge Games hit by redundancies

  Layoffs are happening over at Big Huge Games. The Baltimore, MD, studio was informed by THQ a few weeks ago that if a buyer wasn’t found, the Catan and Rise of Nations developer would be shut down. “These actions were unfortunate but were necessitated by the difficult economic environment,” said THQ. It is not known […]