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Free Mini-Strategy Guide for Lightning Returns from Piggyback

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Lightning Returns mini-guideWant to sample the Lightning Returns strategy guide before making the big purchase? Piggyback has a mini-guide for Lightning Returns available NOW, and guess what? It’s absolutely free.

The Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII mini guide offers a general presentation of all main features and significant concepts in the game. The 24 pages in the mini guide are taken directly from Piggyback’s 100% complete guide to Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII.

This is absolutely brilliant for those who aren’t sure if you want or will need a strategy guide for a game. Where’s the harm in downloading a free mini-guide to see if you actually need more assistance?

If you already know that you’re going to pick up the Lightning Returns strategy guide, no matter what we have to say about it, it’s available for preorder, in both a paperback and Collector’s Edition.

Dark Souls 2 Strategy Guide Confirmed!

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darksouls2Future Press has been sadly quiet for a long time now. I was honestly afraid they weren’t in the strategy guide business anymore, but a lovely Facebook update put all those fears to rest. In fact, they announced that they are responsible for the sequel to one of the most popular strategy guides in existence, the Dark Souls 2 strategy guide.

We’re finally able to announce the official guide to Dark Souls II. We’ve been working, and dying, for a while now, trying to make it even better than the first one. That may be a tall order, but we’ve enlisted the help of top Dark Souls players Marcus (aka EpicNameBro) and Franz (aka A German Spy) in our quest to uncover everything. We’re almost there!

If you are thinking of picking up this guide at all, I can’t emphasize enough how important it is to preorder it. The strategy guides for the first Dark Souls sold out within days of the game’s release, and it wouldn’t surprise me if this guide sold out before the game released.

 

Have a Brief Taste of the Assassin’s Creed IV Strategy Guide

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Assassin's Creed IV CE JacketCurious if the Assassin’s Creed IV strategy guide will be as great as its predecessors? Here’s a bit of a sample of what you can expect when the paperback and Collector’s Edition releases next week.

Like the guides before, this one will guide users to 100% completion, which I assume means that it will provide tips for achieving that 100% synchronization as well as collecting everything, exploring everything, and unlocking all sidequests. The strategy guide, for both editions, also includes a two-sided map poster for the entire Caribbean.

The Collector’s Edition contains an additional 64 pages, including concept art, a full glossary of pirate phrases, and a history of the Golden Age of Piracy. If the latter is anything like the American history summary found in the Assassin’s Creed III strategy guide, this will be a delightful read. I’m a bit of a history nut, and I feel like I know a bit about the Revolutionary War, but I still greatly enjoyed reading the history summary in the strategy guide. I’m sure this will be similar.

Want to see what it looks like on the inside? It’s going to be absolutely beautiful.

Assassin's Creed IV strategy guide

Assassin's Creed IV strategy guide

Assassin's Creed IV strategy guide

May the text inside be as helpful as the layout and artwork is beautiful. The last few Assassin’s Creed strategy guides by Piggyback were quite stellar, so my hopes are high for this one as well.

Prima Games Wants to Push eGuides on the Consoles Themselves

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If you follow Prima Games on Twitter or Facebook, then you know they’ve been gearing up for a huge website relaunch that will go into effect today. In an interview with GameIndustry.biz, EIC Fernando Bueno talked about how Prima has had great success with their eGuides as well as their print, and their goal is make their eGuides as accessible as possible, including making them accessible on the next-gen consoles themselves.

“The eGuides, launching with the new site, will be a truly premium experience – whether on tablet, desktop, phone, or a next-gen console like the Xbox One,” Bueno said.

“By making all of PrimaGames.com responsive even on console browsers, we’re making sure that gamers on the next-gen (including PS4) won’t have to entirely disrupt their gaming session to get answers. We’ll be there the moment they have questions,” he emphasized.

So how crazy convenient would that be? Microsoft has already said that you can run two apps at once with the Xbox One, so you can Skype while playing a game. How easy would it be to run a strategy guide in the second window to instantly look up something?

However, Bueno did stress that the print guides I personally know and love will not be going away with this transition.

“We’re very hard at work at creating some of the best print guides we’ve made in years. I think that one of the things our customers have come to expect from Prima is that we’ll continue to create beautiful, highly collectible hardcover books like our Ni No Kuni guide earlier this year. I think that’s a fantastic example of how we’re integrating all aspects of our business and not carving anything up,” he said. “We don’t see our business as print books, apps, and the website –  we see it as one unified user experience where a customer can buy a print product and count on the digital experience to get them through every boss battle.”

Of course I’m thrilled that print isn’t going away, but I can’t wait to see this type of eGuide in action either. Will you still be into books as I am, or do you prefer the digital format?

A Link Between Worlds Collector’s Edition Strategy Guide Cover Revealed

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Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds strategy guideToday’s news from Prima Games held a bit of exciting news for me. Not only did they confirm that there will be a strategy guide for Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, but they also confirmed there will be a Collector’s Edition of the guide.

And if that wasn’t enough, it made me even happier that said Collector’s Edition is following the tradition of their past Zelda Collector’s Edition guides! So if you have been collecting them in the past (like me), this strategy guide will fit in so very well on your shelf. Or if you’ve preordered the ginormous Legend of Zelda Collector’s Edition boxed set from Prima Games (like me), this strategy guide will fit in so very well with these guides!

Oh it’s going to be such a Zelda-riffic fall for this strategy guide aficionado…

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