A commemorative £20 coin featuring the Welsh dragon has been revealed by the Royal Mint in Rhondda Cynon Taff. The Royal Mint, based in Llantrisant, said the silver coin was designed to be a collectable. It has been created to celebrate “the Welsh spirit”, it added. The coin has been designed by sculptor Norman Sillman, who received his first commission from the Royal Mint back in...
Originally released on the PlayStation 2 in 2004 in Japan, Dragon Quest VIII benefitted from the then-recent merger between Squaresoft and Enix, with the new, larger company better able to localise more Japanese games overseas. The Dragon Quest franchise had been Enix’s equivalent to Final Fantasy, but never enjoyed quite the same international reception outside of Japan as Square’s...
In 2011, Dragon Age 2 inadvertently confirmed rampant speculation amongst humans that size does, in fact, matter. BioWare’s fantasy role-playing game promised a sequel that spread an epic story over a ten-year in-game period; but in constructing the lush and vibrant city of Kirkwall as a setting for this story, the developers forgot to all the other things that make RPGs exciting: huge...