
The video game worlds gamers would most wish to inhabit have been ranked, with the cute and relatively safe antics of the more family friendly games apparently being surpassed by the adventure and thrill offered by one particular blockbuster RPG series…
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Hardcore gamers have compiled a list of the games whose final bosses they find the “most fascinating”, the most popular franchises unsurprisingly dominating the ranking as the more unique yet obscure bosses are strangely nowhere to be found.
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The latest trailer for the upcoming English release of “Dragon Quest Heroes: The World Tree’s Woe and the Blight Below” has heartily pumped up viewers, formally introducing the 12 playable characters as well as some of the game’s mechanics, despite the game taking the form of an action RPG as opposed to the franchise’s classic turn-based style.
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Legendary developer Square Enix have announced a new game in their Theatrhythm franchise for the 3DS entitled “Theatrhythm: Dragon Quest”, a rhythm game set to the music of Dragon Quest’s many iterations – with the first game proving popular enough to warrant the development of a sequel, perhaps due to nostalgic charm.
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Sony has released the results of yet another PlayStation 20th anniversary ranking, with this one quizzing (Japanese) voters as to their all time favorite PlayStation title – with even the might of Final Fantasy succumbing to the power of another great JRPG franchise.
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Sony has asked devoted fans which Sony-specific title they most want to see remade for the PlayStation’s 20th anniversary ranking, with a rather unsurprising title seizing the top spot…
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Illustrious beauty Nonsummerjack has delivered yet another sensuous cosplay, with the notably skimpily dressed dancer of the Dragon Quest series being her inspired choice – along with some interference from one of the franchise’s regrettably low level slimes.
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Square Enix has been making news again – this time for posting a loss of 5.7 billion yen in its most recent financial statement, having posted a profit of 5 billion yen for the same period last year – the loss now being blamed on intense competition in the Japanese video game market and the fact that for some inexplicable reason foreigners refuse to buy its fine titles.
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Family Mart has launched a peculiar “blue slime” nikuman (meat dumpling) based on the iconic Dragon Quest monster – prompting much abuse by fans with nothing better to do than play with their food.
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Dragon Quest X Online has been unveiled, though the news that it is apparently both an MMORPG and developed by Square Enix has prompted a great deal of scepticism.
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Ero-artist Mahito‘s happy fixation on the ladies of Dragon Quest provides some rather spectacular artistic (and erotic) results.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Dec 27, 2010 06:03 JST
- Tags: Dragon Quest, DS, Monster Hunter, Nintendo, PSP, Rankings, RPG, Sony, Wii

A ranking of Japan’s best selling games of 2010 not only proves a major embarrassment to Sony, with not a single title on the PS3 making the list, but also manages to raise some depressing questions about the tastes of the Japanese gaming public…
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