This will be number 7 on my list of video game RPG tropes that need to go away. Every Dwarf Is A Scotsman What is it in our collective imagination (or lack thereof) that requires every dwarf to be heavily bearded and sporting a thick Scottish brogue? I admit, as much as I am enjoying […]
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I’ve finally gotten around to playing CD Projekt Red’s The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition. Not a moment too soon, either. For one thing, the Polish developer’s action-RPG is perhaps the most gorgeous looking game I’ve ever played. But it’s so much more than that. I’ve only played through the prologue so far, […]
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Between Kickstarter and Paypal donations, the long-awaited sequel to the classic post-apocalyptic RPG video game Wasteland netted just over $3 million in funding – $2.1 million beyond the project’s stated goal of $900,000. The enormous groundswell of fan support for the game means that the Wasteland 2 team will be able to make it far […]
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Dark Souls for PC releases this August. Here are five things we can expect from the PC edition of From Software’s brilliant action-RPG.
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Former CD Projekt producer Tomasz Gop is working on a new RPG influenced by Dark Souls and Batman: Arkham City. Nathan Grayson at Rock, Paper, Shotgun passes along some very exciting news in the world of RPG development. It turns out former CD Projekt senior producer Tomasz Gop, a member of the team behind The Witcher […]
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Writing at Kotaku, Luke Plunkett has a very smart post up on the miserable options facing Game of Thrones fans when it comes to video games. The upcoming RPG looks startlingly bad, giving players only two class options and very little customization (including the inability to determine the sex of your character.) Writes Plunkett: Aside […]
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Brent Knowles worked at BioWare for ten years on iconic titles like Baldur’s Gate 2, Neverwinter Nights, and Dragon Age. Much of that time he was Lead Designer and Creative Director at the RPG developer. So he comes at this subject with some important perspective, having worked on some of BioWare’s most beloved games. He has […]
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With 32 days left to go, inXile’s Kickstarter fund-raiser for Wasteland 2, the follow-up to the 1988 classic RPG, is already flush with cash. In fact, , the man behind Wasteland and the original Fallout, was able to fully fund the game in the first 43 hours it was live on Kickstarter. The game has […]
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