It must be every parent’s worst nightmare. Your young child is very ill and there is apparently no cure, and nothing you can do to help her. In Nier, the game, you play a single father with a very sick young girl. And the only thing you want of this world is a cure. It’s a gripping tale of adventure, remorse, action and sadness. Yes, it is an RPG from Square Enix. No, this is not Final Fantasy. It is a complete time drain and you will often wonder if the game was worth the effort. Read on to see if I thought it was a waste or not.

Continue reading El33tonline’s review of Nier.

Taking its cues from the recent US PlayStation Store update, the European PlayStation Store will soon be stuffed to bursting point with an enormous amount of new downloadable content (DLC) for a bunch of different games, including Bioshock 2, Battlefield: Bad Company 2, LittleBigPlanet, Nier, Skate 3 and DJ Hero.

There’ll also be a good selection of special price offers available (Critter Crunch!) as well as two new downloadable games, namely Catan and Rocket Knight.

And all of that is without mentioning the Rock Band, Guitar Hero and Karaoke Revolution DLC, new themes, and interesting videos.

Browse through the full list of new content set to hit the European PlayStation Store in a few hours, below:

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Whoa! In what is seriously a contender for ‘Best PlayStation Store Update Ever,’ a host of great new content has hit the US PlayStation Store today, starting with a string of great ‘Spring Fever’ price offers on PopCap and Midway games, as well as price reductions on a variety of awesome miscellaneous other games.

Then there’s downloadable games in the form of World Of Outlaws Sprint Cars for PS3 and Harvest Moon: Hero Of Leaf Valley for PSP, demos of Split/Second for PS3 and ModNation Racers for PSP, as well as an absolute gigaton of downloadable content (DLC) for games like LittleBigPlanet, Bioshock 2, DJ Hero, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Nier, Super Street Fighter IV and Skate 3.

And we haven’t even discussed the wallpapers, videos, themes and Rock Band and Guitar Hero DLC!

Have a look through the full list of new content now available on the US PlayStation Store below:

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Square Enix has announced that new downloadable content for their action RPG Nier will be available for the Xbox 360 today (for 560 MS Points) and for the PS3 tomorrow (for €6.99).

Titled ‘The World of Recycled Vessel,’ the new DLC will add new weapons, costumes, music and battle quest. A gate to a strange world is opened, mixing the past and present, and giving players the chance to engage in 15 “nightmarish” battles to unlock two sets of bonus costumes for Nier, Emil and Kaine, three powerful weapons, new music and a special quest that “challenges you to destroy your woolliest adversaries.”

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Square Enix’s next action RPG, Nier Replicant, which was teased in an advertisement in a recent issue of Japanese gaming magazine, Famitsu, has finally received a bit of visual panache to go along with the confirmation that it does indeed exist, heading out onto the PlayStation 3 at an unknown date. It’s looking very panache-ie.

By all accounts, the PS3 version of Nier Replicant is an accompaniment title to Square Enix’s similarly named Nier Gestalt on the Xbox 360, in which the characters and storylines, while related to those of the PS3 game, Nier Replicant, are slightly different.

Let’s hope Square Enix clears up any confusion about the two titles at this week’s Tokyo Game Show.

Watch the debut trailer for Nier Replicant below (Note: not for the squeamish!):

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An interesting trailer for a third-person action adventure game, Nier, has been released, and while it looks pretty similar to other games in the genre (God of War, Ninja Gaiden, Heavenly Sword), the premise is slightly different in that battles against enemies take place in and around cities that have long since been destroyed.

The trailer is also excellently stylised and just intriguing enough to create a spike of excitement. Watch the debut trailer for Nier below: