38 Studios has announced our first title, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, scheduled for release in fall 2011. Take a look at the press release and pay a visit to the Reckoning website for screenshots, a trailer, and concept art. Reckoning will be available for the PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system, Xbox 360® videogame and entertainment system, and PC.

This is bad enough for me to come out of hiding. According to a post on the official forums, Blizzard will begin displaying everyone’s real first and last names with their forum posts. This is not only an invasion of privacy and something that will lead to stolen passwords and accounts even beyond the scope of Blizzard’s products, but it’s an incredible risk and will likely result in major real world problems (such as people being murdered because of who they are on the forums… and no, I’m not exaggerating). I’m linking the original post by Nethaera below because I assume they’ll get wise to how bad this decision is and will rescind the post eventually. Continue Reading »