What an Old RPG Can Teach Today's Designers
Though I own most of the new gaming consoles, a good computer, and many recent games, you'd never guess that I've been having a blast playing the 1994 classic Might and Magic: World of Xeen using...
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Game of the Year 2009
Without question, 2009 was a better year for role-playing enthusiasts than 2008 was. This past year brought us the likes of Dragon Age: Origins, Risen, Drakensang: The Dark Eye, Demon's Souls, Knights...
View ArticleDefense of the Ancients: Seven Years and Counting
"What is Defense of the Ancients, or in short, DotA?," you might ask. In case you did ask, I will take you on a little trip down memory lane. In 2003, a bright mapmaker by the alias "Eul" used the...
View ArticleE3 2010: An Evening With 38 Studios
38 Studios didn't have an official presence at E3, but I was lucky enough to get invited to a private dinner meeting they hosted at the nearby Palm Restaurant. In attendance were baseball legend and...
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Game of the Year 2010
While there were certainly some stand-out RPGs taking up space in our living room and hard drives this year, we'd classify 2010 as something of a creative disappointment. Aside from Alpha Protocol and...
View ArticleTorment Need Not Be Eternal
Although the idea of writing a Planescape retrospective has been on my mind for a while now, I didn't want this to be "just another" retrospective on one of the best CRPGs of the last fifteen years,...
View ArticleDiablo III and the Road to Hell
Although it's been years since we've had a new Diablo game, with all the dungeon-crawling, loot-grabbing, monster-slaying action that fans have been in love with for over a decade now (hard to believe,...
View ArticleIcewind Dale: The Past, Present, and Future
Windswept, icy plains. Majestic and dense forests. Deep canyons falling miles into the earth below. A perpetual blanket of snow. Barbarian camps and wintry hamlets barely pock-marking the landscape....
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Game of the Year 2011
Yet another year has passed by, and much to our grinning surprise, it's going to go down in the history books as one of the best twelve-month stretches of role-playing game releases in, well, a very...
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Game of the Year 2012
While 2012 certainly wasn't as strong as 2011 as far as role-playing game releases go, one thing we'll always remember this year for was the beginning of the Kickstarter craze and the immortalization...
View ArticleWhat an Old RPG Can Teach Today's Designers
Though I own most of the new gaming consoles, a good computer, and many recent games, you'd never guess that I've been having a blast playing the 1994 classic Might and Magic: World of Xeen using...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Game of the Year 2009
Without question, 2009 was a better year for role-playing enthusiasts than 2008 was. This past year brought us the likes of Dragon Age: Origins, Risen, Drakensang: The Dark Eye, Demon's Souls, Knights...
View ArticleDefense of the Ancients: Seven Years and Counting
"What is Defense of the Ancients, or in short, DotA?," you might ask. In case you did ask, I will take you on a little trip down memory lane. In 2003, a bright mapmaker by the alias "Eul" used the...
View ArticleE3 2010: An Evening With 38 Studios
38 Studios didn't have an official presence at E3, but I was lucky enough to get invited to a private dinner meeting they hosted at the nearby Palm Restaurant. In attendance were baseball legend and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Game of the Year 2010
While there were certainly some stand-out RPGs taking up space in our living room and hard drives this year, we'd classify 2010 as something of a creative disappointment. Aside from Alpha Protocol and...
View ArticleTorment Need Not Be Eternal
Although the idea of writing a Planescape retrospective has been on my mind for a while now, I didn't want this to be "just another" retrospective on one of the best CRPGs of the last fifteen years,...
View ArticleDiablo III and the Road to Hell
Although it's been years since we've had a new Diablo game, with all the dungeon-crawling, loot-grabbing, monster-slaying action that fans have been in love with for over a decade now (hard to believe,...
View ArticleIcewind Dale: The Past, Present, and Future
Windswept, icy plains. Majestic and dense forests. Deep canyons falling miles into the earth below. A perpetual blanket of snow. Barbarian camps and wintry hamlets barely pock-marking the landscape....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Game of the Year 2011
Yet another year has passed by, and much to our grinning surprise, it's going to go down in the history books as one of the best twelve-month stretches of role-playing game releases in, well, a very...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Game of the Year 2012
While 2012 certainly wasn't as strong as 2011 as far as role-playing game releases go, one thing we'll always remember this year for was the beginning of the Kickstarter craze and the immortalization...
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