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   With all the role-playing news we already had today, there's still plenty more left to talk about. After Fallout 3, Oblivion, FF XIII and FF Versus XIII, we now turn our attention over to three more ambitious titles - Hellgate: London, Blue Dragon and Two Worlds. Up until now, Flagship Studios' shooter-RPG was only bound for release on the PC. And although "oficially" that's still the case, a recent Next-Gen.biz interview offers tangible hope of playing Hellgate: London on the Xbox 360, at some point in the future. In their discussion with Namco Bandai's director of business development Zach Karlsson, Next-Gen learned that an Xbox 360 version of the game is actually quite likely to be planned already, and that 2008 promises to be an even bigger year for Namco Bandai's games.
This year NamcoBandai has Hellgate: London, a PC RPG cum, shooter that it is co-publishing that with EA. Given the company's newfound penchant for cross-platform development, I ask if an Xbox 360 version is likely. Karlsson won't confirm it, but he admits that it's highly unlikely that such a notion is far from the company's planning calendar.

(...) Karlsson says, "We have a bunch of new stuff coming up in 2008 which is going to be our biggest year. It's indicative of our push into building new IPs and licenses."    Moving on to Blue Dragon - the one game that finally boosted Xbox 360 sales in Japan after it was released there in December - there is finally some speculation about a western release date for Hironobu Sakaguchi's new RPG. As reported on CVG, online retailer Gamestop has listed Blue Dragon with a June 5 release in the US. They go on to assume that, even if Microsoft manages to meet this "deadline", it will still take a very long time for the game to be released in Europe - "given that all the text would have to be translated in several different languages. And we know how long that can take... Final Fantasy III STILL isn't out over here yet on DS.", they argue.

   Finally, the under-hyped Two Worlds role-playing game made the news a few days ago, when SouthPeak Interactive announced that their "massive, open-ended role-playing game", Two Worlds, will (also?) be released for the Xbox 360 this spring - also sending along these new Xbox 360 screenshots. The game was previously known to be in development for both the PC and Xbox 360, but this latest press release bears no mention of the PC version. However, we're still expecting it to be released this March on the PC. Until then, you can read more about the magic in Two World, in a new communique issued by Zuxxez.

P.S. If you're more into portable RPGs, you might want to stick around for another double-announcement, coming up right after the break!