According to Nintendo of America head Reggie Fils-Aime himself, Xenoblade Chronicles will finally arrive in North America on April 6. Wait, but didn’t that game already come out, like, two other times? Yes, friend, it totally did

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Xenoblade Chronicles arrives on April 6 wrapped in this gorgeous box art

The final surprise at the end of this morning’s Nintendo Direct: The Last Story ! The long-awaited action-RPG for Wii by Mistwalker will be out in North America this year, thanks to the stalwart RPG localizing staff of publisher XSEED Games. Wii’s ‘The Last Story’ coming to North America in 2012 originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:03:00 EST.

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Wii’s ‘The Last Story’ coming to North America in 2012

Indie developers are the starving artists of the video-game world, often brilliant and innovative, but also misunderstood, underfunded and more prone to writing free-form poetry on their LiveJournals. We at Joystiq believe no one deserves to starve, and many indie developers are entitled to a fridge full of tasty, fulfilling media coverage, right here. This week, the founders of Chaosoft Games, Forrest McCorkle and Josh Ferguson, discuss the goodness in going evil with their classically inspired title, EvilQuest .

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The Joystiq Indie Pitch: EvilQuest

After a lengthy drought of mech games, it suddenly feels like armored mechanical behemoths are back en vogue, with Day 1 Studios adding Reign of Thunder to the roster. The game is a fast-paced, third-person free-to-play mech combat game.

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‘Reign of Thunder’ is F2P mech shooter from MechAssault dev

Xenoblade Chronicles is still on track for its April 2012 release in North America, proving that there’s nothing in this world that you can’t do .

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New Xenoblade Chronicles trailer shows off combat and menus

Developers must have Kickstarter fever right now.

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inXile plans to launch Kickstarter drive for Wasteland reboot

Filed under: Features , PC , RPGs This is a weekly column focusing on “Western” role-playing games: their stories, their histories, their mechanics, their insanity, and their inanity. “Oh, East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,” – Rudyard Kipling Conventional wisdom holds that role-playing games are easily divided into two categories: Japanese and Western, or, before the technical lines got blurred a decade ago, console and computer games.

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East Is West: How Two Classic RPGs Prove the Stereotypes False

Final Fantasy XIII-2 players will have a little more afro in their lives come February 28, when Square Enix releases its latest episodic DLC event, “Sazh: Heads or Tails?” Players take on the role of Sazh Katzroy in an adventure that takes place concurrently with FFXIII-2 ’s main story.

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New DLC brings afros and bikinis to Final Fantasy XIII-2

This is a column by Kat Bailey dedicated to the analysis of the once beloved Japanese RPG sub-genre. Tune in every Wednesday for thoughts on white-haired villains, giant robots, Infinity+1 swords, and everything else the wonderful world of JRPGs have to offer. I’m going to sum up all of the cliches about Final Fantasy XIII in one sentence: “The battle system is pretty good, but the story is laughable.” Gamasutra’s Christian Nutt even went so far as to compare the direction of the series to the Star Wars prequels.

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Do Japanese RPGs need good stories?

Pandora’s Tower is the next European Wii RPG release for us all to be jealous of. Following this month’s The Last Story , Pandora’s Tower will arrive in Europe on April 13, ensuring an oddly impressive 2012 Wii lineup for the region.

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Pandora’s Tower coming to Europe in April, enjoy gross Valentine’s Day cards now