Alpha Protocol

GB Feature: E3 2010: Feargus Urquhart Interview

Following my conversation with Chris Avellone at this year’s E3, I had the opportunity to sit down with Feargus Urquhart in between demonstrations of Dungeon Siege III at the Square Enix booth. The Obsidian Entertainment CEO didn’t hold back on…

E3 2010: Feargus Urquhart Interview

Almost exactly twenty-four hours after I chatted with Chris Avellone at Bethesda’s E3 booth, I had the opportunity to sit down with Feargus Urquhart in between demonstrations of Dungeon Siege III at the Square Enix booth. To my surprise, the…

Alpha Protocol Reviews

Obsidian Entertainment’s Alpha Protocol is the subject of a couple more similarly scored reviews, the first of which comes to us via PALGN with a 6/10: Ultimately, Alpha Protocol is a title suffering from so many quality control issues that…

GB Feature: E3 2010: Chris Avellone Interview

I had the oppotunity to conduct two separate interviews at this year’s E3, the first of which was with Obsidian Entertainment co-founder and Fallout: New Vegas senior designer Chris Avellone. The second half of the conversation deals with Alpha Protocol,…

E3 2010: Chris Avellone Interview

If you’ve never been to E3, let me just say that it’s jam-packed with craziness – and lots of people. My very first appointment of the day was with Fallout: New Vegas, and Chris and I had talked about doing…

Alpha Protocol Reviews

Another selection of Alpha Protocol reviews are available for your scrutiny, though once again they’re all over the place. Bitmob doesn’t provide a score: I don’t like to give number scores, so I’ll tentatively say that Alpha Protocol is worth…

Weighing Morality in Gaming

Kotaku is the latest website to examine the implementation of morality systems in video games, though they completely overlook the many games that used such systems decades ago and instead point out the Mass Effect series, Alpha Protocol, and The Witcher…

Chris Avellone Interview

I suppose you could consider this six-page article-style interview with Obsidian Entertainment’s Chris Avellone on gamesTM a gift to those of us celebrating Icewind Dale’s ten-year anniversary. In it, Chris talks about how we broke into the video game industry,…

Alpha Protocol Reviews

If you’re in the market for some more Alpha Protocol critiques, then you’re in luck as a few more reviews have surfaced on the Internet. They’re pretty favorable this time, too. Paste Magazine gives it a 7.3/10: Alpha Protocol can’t…

Alpha Protocol Reviews

Obsidian Entertainment’s spy-themed RPG is the subject of several more reviews, starting with a piece called “Alpha Overhaul” over at The Escapist: Another nice touch is that they’ve done away with the generic good / evil slider. Instead of putting…