Overlord, released by Triumph Studios a little over a year ago, was a nifty surprise package — commanding an army of gremlins to do your every bidding and either raid or revere (and then brutally raid) neighbouring towns was balanced with excellent lampooning of the fantasy genre and the corruption system that, for once, challenged how low you could really go (overwhelming cruelty equals fabulous spells!).

Bolstered by fans clamouring for more wicked hero-maiming, Triumph Studios has announced the 2009 release date for Overlord II. It seems the new Overlord of the series will go up against a faux Caesar and his empire to decide the fate of magic in their world. Not only is the game moving towards more realistic settings, but your minions can now, “do even more things for their master; such as riding mounts, using war machines and sailing warships in world-changing battles,” stated Lennart Sas on IGN. The game has also received an immense visual and control upgrade to make it more appealing to a new audience.

Overlord also seems to have evolved from lone wolf with a biting quip to a full-fledged franchise. Codemasters recently revealed Overlord: Dark Legend for the Wii (how’s that, anti-Madworld parents?) and Overlord Minions for the DS. Overlord II will be released on all Games For Windows PC systems, Xbox 360 and the PS3.

Source: IGN

by gSathe

Okay, so it’s been a week already, and most of you would have heard about the Okami Wii cover mix up and the quick fix solution that followed. For those of you who hadn’t been listening (why? why why why?) here’s the short form text: The box art of Capcom’s upcoming game Okami for the Wii had been cribbed from the IGN website. Maybe whichever designer they’d hired didn’t want to take the time of going through his own client for promotional images and just Googled for the first file he could find. Whatever the case though, Capcom has moved quickly to fix things, by offering whole new covers and artwork for us, the victims.

But then poking through my DS titles I hit upon Apollo Justice and out of random curiosity, and the fact that there had been no electricity for a while and so I couldn’t play anything, not even the DS which had been discharged through the day, I pulled out the instruction booklet. Click here to continue reading ‘Capcom’s cut-and paste covers’