Remastered masterpieces ICO and Shadow of the Colossus top the freebies list for PlayStation Plus subscribers in June. There's also Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, a well-built but slightly unoriginal RPG, and Dark Souls predecessor Demon's Souls, if you dare. All three are available to download from 29th May. Read more…
Matt Bai of The New York Times has authored a lively, comprehensive deconstruction of the downfall of 38 Studios, makers of Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning and a planned MMO. The story weaves in Rhode Island's political and cultural forces in explaining the debacle. It's a superb Sunday read. Read more...
I was away on a self-imposed hiatus this past week, thus I missed out on sharing this recently released Game Grumps guest starring Grant Kirkhope, composer for Banjo-Kazooie, Donkey Kong 64, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, the upcoming Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z, and many others. Show More Summary
This is a weekly column from freelancer Rowan Kaiser, which focuses on "Western" role-playing games: their stories, their histories, their mechanics, their insanity, and their inanity. Recently, I decided to play Kingdoms of Amalur:Show More Summary
Epic Games has announced that they're shutting down subsidiary Impossible Studios. Impossible was founded by former employees from Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning studio Big Huge Games just six months ago.
In June, Epic Games rescued the developers behind Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning by creating a new studio for them. Today, that studio has been closed.
The spectacular crash of Curt Schilling's video game development studio was one of the most stunning—and heart-wrenchingly sad—news stories of last year. The downward spiral of the company that made Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning hasShow More Summary
Prepare to get your brutality, fantasy, and strategy on, as Darksiders 2, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, and Tom Clancy's EndWar are all arriving on PlayStation Network November 20. This week's PlayStation Blogcast confirmed the trio of PS3 digital releases.Darksiders 2 recently got its second downloadable content pack, Abyssal Forge. Show More Summary
The tragedy of 38 Studios, Curt Schilling’s bankrupt video game company, is not that a private business went under—though there are hundreds of employees out of work, and Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning showed a lot of promise. The real...Show More Summary
This auctioning of assets belonging to 38 Studios, the makers of Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, brought in a combined $830,000, reports Joystiq. Sounds... good? Well, according to the Associated Press, that will barely dent the $100Show More Summary
Ken Rolston - lead designer on Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind, its sequel Oblivion, and Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning - has recently joined Turbine, developer of Lord of the Rings Online and Dungeons & Dragons Online. Rolston is now theShow More Summary
Ken Rolston of Morrowind, Oblivion and Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning fame is now the director of design at Turbine, the company announced this morning. Rolston's responsibilities will include leading "the vision and the implementation...Show More Summary
Online auction-goers will be able to bid on the firesale of 38 Studios, makers of Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning which collapsed in bankruptcy back in May. More »
Earlier this summer news broke that the Rhode Island U.S. Attorney and FBI would be launching a criminal investigation into the finances of defunct Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning developer 38 Studios. On Friday, a spokesman for U.S. Attorney...Show More Summary
In the aftermath of 38 Studios' collapse, a slew of government investigators said they were probing the maker of Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning for its attempts to secure loans using tax credits that never were issued. Tax credits are...Show More Summary
01./00. [PSP] Final Fantasy III (Square Enix) {2012.09.20} (¥3.990) - 44.872 / NEW 02./03. [3DS] New Super Mario Bros. 2 (Nintendo) {2012.07.28} (¥4.800) - 37.313 / 1.150.471 (+3%) 03./00. [PS3] Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning (Spike Chunsoft) {2012.09.20} (¥8.190) - 20.695 / NEW 04./04. Show More Summary
01./00. [PSP] Final Fantasy III (Square Enix) {2012.09.20} (¥3.990) - 44.872 / NEW 02./03. [3DS] New Super Mario Bros. 2 (Nintendo) {2012.07.28} (¥4.800) - 37.313 / 1.150.471 (+3%) 03./00. [PS3] Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning (Spike Chunsoft) {2012.09.20} (¥8.190) - 20.695 / NEW 04./04. Show More Summary
When I tried Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning for the first time, I fell in love. Not with the story, and not with the art, but with several elements of the actual game itself. The idea of having all of that brought into the MMO space filled...Show More Summary
If you're heart-broken over the cancellation of Project Copernicus, the MMO set in the same game world as Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, then you may want to avert your eyes. A former 38 Studios employee has released another video that shows off an environment from the game that will never be.
Project Copernicus, the MMORPG set in the same world as Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, will likely never see the light of day. There's plenty of time to wonder about what might've been, though. Curt Schilling, founder of developer 38 Studios, says Copernicus would have been the first $100 million free-to-play MMO.