Posts tagged Risen 
Become a pirate of Dark Waters in Risen 2
Piranha Bytes is lifting its Risen series out of generic fantasy land, and dropping it into the high seas. Risen 2: Dark Waters, coming to "consoles and PC," is a seafaring RPG set in a destroyed world, years after the end of the first game. The hero sets out to discover what's causing monsters to ...
Impressions: Risen's second chance on Xbox 360
click to enlarge Piranha Bytes' RPG Risen is getting a second chance in America. Originally released in Europe on October 2009, reviewers slammed the game as "unfinished and unrefined" and "a technical mess" -- for good reason, too. The original retail release of Risen on Xbox 360 was largely a ...
Deep Silver publishing Risen on Xbox 360 in February
Piranha Bytes' Risen will release this February on Xbox 360 in North America. Speaking of rising, that's likely something the review scores could use after the North American release. The PC version is currently scraping by with a 77 on Metacritic and the Xbox 360 version, which has raided Europe, ...
Risen is gold for PC on Oct. 2, Xbox 360 version delayed until 2010
Piranha Bytes' Risen will make its scheduled PC release on October 2; however, the Xbox 360 version has been delayed until "early next year," a release window that's just begging for more. (Also, let's just ignore that our GameFly account deems the console version as "canceled.") Sporting a solid ...
Risen banned in Australia for incentivizing sex and drugs
RPG Risen has been refused classification by Australia's OFLC, meaning it can't be sold at retail on the continent. Kotaku was informed by the game's Aussie distributor that the board was concerned by "sexual activity and drug use related to incentives or rewards." Ignore the fact that both of ...
Risen rising to retail rOctober recond ... argh, second
Developer Piranha Bytes has announced that its RPG, Risen, will try to take a bite out of retail on October 2. Big Download took note of the press release's proud statement that the game is completely done and going through three separate quality assurance teams. That last bit likely has a little ...
The best of WoW Insider: March 5-11, 2008
Time once again to bring you the hottest stories from Azeroth, where Joystiq sister site WoW Insider is covering all the news out of the biggest MMO ever, World of Warcraft. From Arthas to Zul'Gurub, we've got it covered. News Inscription hidden in patch 2.4 Blizzard is laying the groundwork ...
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