White Knight Chronicles
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Level 5
U.S. Release Date: TBA
U.K. Release Date: TBA

Dark Cloud and Dragon Quest IX developer Level 5 embraces giganticism with the RPG White Knight Chronicles, a game that has the lead character morph into an impossibly huge knight. White Knight is more than just a virtual exhibit of overactive pituitary glands, as the fantasy game will be built around single player and online multiplayer modes.



Heavy Rain: The Origami Killer
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Quantic Dream
U.S. Release Date: TBA
U.K. Release Date: TBA

Quantic Dream will tell you that storytelling is everything, but that hasn’t kept the developer from taking advantage of current generation hardware to deliver some of the most stunningly realistic graphics in the PS3-exclusive thriller Heavy Rain. How the French studio weaves an interactive narrative with foxy graphics and innovative gameplay will be the deciding factor for this game’s success. If Quantic’s previous game Indigo Prophecy (a.k.a. Fahrenheit) is anything to go by, there’s reason to be excited about this uniquely appealing adventure.



MAG: Massive Action Game (tentative title)
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Zipper Interactive
U.S. Release Date: TBA
U.K. Release Date: TBA

Outside of MMORPGs, the feeling of world-like scale and scope is rare in multiplayer videogames. SOCOM house Zipper Interactive hopes to remedy the situation with MAG, a shooter that supports 256 players in squads of eight in a single world. Scale alone doesn’t guarantee a game’s greatness, and we’ll see how a 256-person squad-based shooter translates from marketing bullet-points to the real world. But for now, it’s easy to give the respected Zipper the benefit of the doubt.