Forgot password?  |  Register  |    
User Name:     Password:    
Xenoblade Chronicles

Overall Game of the Year 2012

The moment you've been waiting for!

Looking back over an entire year, it’s hard to tell which games are going to stand out through the years that follow.  Which titles are people going to continue to talk about, get nostalgic over, and load up to replay next a decade from now?  Maybe we had a few of those this year, but only time will tell.  Perhaps we will look back on what we voted to be the very best of 2012 and our monocles will spin in amazement at our ageless judgment.  Or maybe we’ll all laugh and wonder what we were thinking. 

Read more »

6 Comments
Leave Your Comment »

PixlTalk Episode 77: Girlfriend Mode

Find out why Jason owes Nick a pizza in this episode of PixlTalk!

This past Monday night, Jason, Nick, and Joaquim sat down to record the latest episode of PixlTalk after the crew took a week off for the holidays. We talk Xenoblade, Mass Effect 3, and Borderlands 2. As the title indicates, we take on the "Girlfriend Mode" controversy head on and discuss just how ridiculous the outrage of the comments were.

Read more »

7 Comments
Leave Your Comment »

Cut Xenoblade Area Exposed - Bionis' Left Shoulder

Check out this gorgeous map that was cut from the final product. The map is loaded up via an emulator, so it has no NPCs, enemies, or items that can be interacted with.

Read more »

3 Comments
Leave Your Comment »

Xenoblade Chronicles Review

A truly rewarding experience

These days, same old same old just does not cut it.  When an RPG from Japan comes around that promises to be different, the modern gamer is understandably cynical. Thankfully, with a unique world, a fresh take on in game relationships, and an excellent use of in game rewards to encourage the player, Xenoblade Chronicles delivers the refreshing changes and modernizations many of us have been looking for.

Read more »

9 Comments
Leave Your Comment »

Staff Roundtable: Operation Rainfall

Could Operation Rainfall Revive the west's dormant love for the JRPG?

Today Xenoblade Chronicles is available for purchase in the US thanks, in part, to Operation Rainfall.  To mark the occasion, a few members of the PixlBit staff began a dialogue concerning the future of the movement and if it’s at all possible that Operation Rainfall could revive the west’s love for the Japanese RPG.

Read more »

41 Comments
Leave Your Comment »

Nintendo Direct [2.22.2012]: Reggie Fils-Aime Presents Nintendo Updates

Reggie Fils-Aime, and Bill Trinen host this latest Nintendo Direct showcasing their upcoming line-up.

Read more »

0 Comments
Leave Your Comment »

Nintendo Direct Reveals The Last Story Coming to America, Other Announcements

A collaboration title and release date also announced.

This morning, Nintendo had its Nintendo Direct video presentation and several announcements were made. Top among them was the announcement that The Last Story, one of the titles targeted by the Operation Rainfall movement, will be coming to North America this year courtesy of XSEED Games.  The Last Story is the latest, and perhaps last, RPG developed by Mistwalker head and creator of the Final Fantasy series, Hironobu Sakaguchi. 

Read more »

7 Comments
Leave Your Comment »

The Marketing Genius of Nintendo of America

Was there any real doubt that Xenoblade was coming stateside?

Last Friday, Nintendo of America announced that the Nintendo faithful and loyal supports of Operation Rainfall would be granted one of their longstanding wishes with the stateside release of heralded RPG Xenoblade Chronicles this upcoming April.  The news came at a precarious time for Nintendo. With Skyward Sword having been released this past month, Nintendo’s upcoming release schedule was looking just a little more than barren.

Read more »

20 Comments
Leave Your Comment »

Xenoblade Chronicles is Crossing the Pond

Operation Rainfall can now be considered 1/3 complete!

In a recent interview President of Nintendo of America Reggie Fils-Amie said that he believed that “there certainly will be more games launched for the Wii.” Adding, “We believe there are still millions more systems to be sold.” While most gamers and journalist blew this comment off as pandering PR speak it seems that there was some truth to those words as we can now confirm that Nintendo will be bringing the long awaited Xenoblade Chronicles to North America this upcoming April.

Read more »

10 Comments
Leave Your Comment »

Monday Night PlayBit: Xenoblade Chronicles

Click through to see some of the game.

Jason's played nearly three hours of XenoBlade Chronicles. Check out the replays below!

Read more »

4 Comments
Leave Your Comment »
Posts 1 - 10   1   2  »

Filter

Type:
Author:
  

Related Media