Classic Year of the Dragon
11:20 PM - Thursday the 14th of May, 2009 - by dark52
Following closely on the heels of the addition of Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage last week,
Spyro: Year of the Dragon has now also been added to the North American PlayStation Store.
Quote: PSNEveryone's favorite dragon is back, and this time he must save the Year of the Dragon Festival by rescuing the 150 eggs that have been stolen by the evil Sorceress and scattered across the Forgotten Worlds. New features include mini-games, new playable characters, and an Atlas to track your progress and accomplishments. Download this PS one classic today!
Ripto's Rage Returns
9:34 AM - Friday the 8th of May, 2009 - by dark52
Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage! has finally been added to the North American PlayStation Store.
Quote: PSNThings are heating up! Spyro, the feisty, fire-breathing dragon is back and he's ready to take on a whole new adventure in this sequel to the original Spyro! You must save the worlds of Avalar by defeating the dinosaur-riding Ripto and his evil minions.
Hopefully it won't suffer the same issues as the European release of Spyro 2: Gateway to Glimmer.
Thanks to crashpro for the heads up.
Path of Fire
3:46 PM - Wednesday the 22nd of October, 2008 - by dark52
Still waiting to get the newly released
The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon? Well
Spyro's Lair has a new mini-game added today that could help fill in the time. It's been seen in the scorecard for quite a while and "Path of Fire" has finally materialised in the form of a memory game in which you have to remember a path for Spyro to follow, each progressively longer than the last.
With the release of Dawn of the Dragon you can expect a few more games to appear on Spyro's Lair "very soon".
In other news there are a few more character pictures on the official
Dawn of the Dragon website and Prima have added a PDF preview of their
Official Guide which details one of the levels quite extensively (and contains spoilers, obviously).
Thanks go to dark_fury912 for the heads up on the new Spyro's Lair game and spyro's #1fan on the official forums for spotting the new pictures.
A Second Trailer
11:14 AM - Friday the 10th of October, 2008 - by dark52
As we enter the last few days before launch, a second trailer for
The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon has been released, you can find it on
Yahoo! Kids.
Mobile Walkthrough
11:39 PM - Sunday the 28th of September, 2008 - by dark52
With the release of the mobile version of
The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon recently I've completed work on a walkthrough for the whole thing. Clocking in at a maleficent 31KB you can either read the
text file or the less monospaced HTML version of the
walkthrough.
A warning for those of you not wanting to have Dawn of the Dragon spoiled is to not read through the walkthrough for a game you don't have. Saying that, I don't think there are any spoilers in there anyway but I could be wrong.
If you can speak French or want to see more footage of the console version of the game then
JeuxVideo have a video interview with Jean-Marie Nazaret of Etranges Libellules, the interview is translated
here in the forum if you can't be bothered to do it yourself.
Thanks go to Spyro VS Evil and dragonwar2 for posting the interview and translation.
Achieving the Dawn
11:58 PM - Tuesday the 9th of September, 2008 - by dark52
The achievements for the Xbox 360 version of
The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon have been released. Check them out on
Xbox360Achievements (possible spoilers!).
The
release date for the game has finally been announced on the Sierra forums; the 21st of October in North America.
And today also marks Spyro's 10th Anniversary, so, you know, yay for that too.
A Trailer and More
8:54 PM - Wednesday the 20th of August, 2008 - by dark52
The first
trailer for
The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon has appeared at this year's Games Convention in Leipzig.
There are also some new
screenshots of the PS3 and Xbox 360 version on GameSpot, included are the character models of the main cast of good guys. You can also check out these screens in the
Dawn of the Dragon image gallery here on darkSpyro.
Thanks go to Aura24 for the finds.
Gameplay
9:39 AM - Wednesday the 20th of August, 2008 - by dark52
Video Gamer have a new hands-on preview of
The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon along with a
video of some flying plus some new
screenshots.
The new information includes the anticipated length of the game: 8 to 10 hours over 12 levels.
They've also got some
Wii screenshots too.
Thanks go to EternalSpyro for finding it.
Tantalising
10:53 AM - Friday the 15th of August, 2008 - by dark52
Tantalus, the developers of the Nintendo DS version of
The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon, have added twenty new screenshots and a video of the game in action to their website.
You can also check out the screenshots in their full-sized glory in the
gallery.
Spyro at Comic-Con 2008
9:26 AM - Sunday the 27th of July, 2008 - by dark52
GameSpot have a video of a demonstration of
The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon.
You get to see a lot of new moves and fighting with both small enemies and that big lava boss.
Extended Elijah Experience
9:56 AM - Saturday the 26th of July, 2008 - by dark52
The full interview
GameTrailers had with Elijah Wood has finally been posted. It includes some extra questions to Elijah and some more footage of
The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon in action.
In other news, the first screenshots of the mobile version of the game have appeared on
PocketGamer. You can also check them out in their full non-cropped glory in the
gallery.
And in site related news, I've recently made some
maps for the Sgt. Byrd speedways in
Spyro: A Hero's Tail which should help locate where all those turrets are hiding and perhaps improve your time through the course.
Thanks go to Neal of SpyroWorld for spotting the mobile screens.
First Footage
9:12 AM - Saturday the 19th of July, 2008 - by dark52
During the latest episode of
GameTrailer TV, Elijah Wood is interviewed, and accompanying that interview is some footage of
The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon in action. We even see a brief glimpse of Hunter for the first time.
Thanks go to SpyroFire for spotting it.
Nintendo Dawn Screens
9:31 PM - Tuesday the 15th of July, 2008 - by dark52
Here are five new screenshots from the Nintendo DS version of
The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon.
There's also now a huge version of the
logo in the gallery.
Wall Savers and Screen Papers
8:04 AM - Tuesday the 15th of July, 2008 - by dark52
The official
The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon website has updated with several wallpapers and a screensaver. They've also added in more screenshots and concept art but they're all ones we've seen before.
It also looks like Etranges Libellules are getting a new logo soon.
If you are looking for new screenshots, there are a couple you might not have seen yet on
Xbox.com. You can also find them all in the new look
gallery here on darkSpyro.
Wings of Fury
11:19 AM - Wednesday the 25th of June, 2008 - by dark52
The folks at
Spyro's Lair have added their first new mini-game since release. Wings of Fury sees you play as either Spyro or Cynder (there are apparently some differences between them), in the new
Dawn of the Dragon style, flying through up to ten levels of near constant air combat.
You can find the game by clicking on Activities once you're in the Lair.
Unfortunately the game doesn't appear to add your score to your Spyro's Lair scoreboard but you can still mark your achievement on a highscore table with a 3 letter name at the end. Edit July 1st: It does record your score to Spyro's Lair now.
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