Alpha Protocol

Alpha Protocol Retrospective

PC Gamer’s Reinstall column looks back at Obsidian’s Alpha Protocol, and ponders what exactly made this mess of a game so special and memorable. While the points regarding Alpha Protocol’s, and Deus Ex’s for that matter, mechanical shortcomings are arguable…

Alpha Protocol Retrospective

PC Gamer’s Reinstall column looks back at Obsidian’s Alpha Protocol, and ponders what exactly made this mess of a game so special and memorable. While the points regarding Alpha Protocol’s, and Deus Ex’s for that matter, mechanical shortcomings are arguable…

Chris Avellone Livestream Interview

The one and only Chris Avellone participated in a livestreamed interview with Colm Larkin, the creator of Guild of Dungeoneering from The Irish Game Makers Association. They chatted for about an hour. The trip down the memory lane starts with…

Josh Sawyer Interview

RPG Codex has published an interview they conducted with Obsidian Entertainment’s Josh Sawyer. It is extremely long and goes into detail about a whole lot of various topics. An interesting takeaway there are Sawyer’s thoughts on what narrative and mechanical…

Obsidian Entertainment Tyranny AMA Q&A

To promote their latest title, Tyranny, the folks at Obsidian Entertainment and Paradox Interactive engaged in an Ask Me Anything Q&A with the Reddit community yesterday. On Obsidian’s part, the developers involved were CEO Feargus Urquhart, Tyranny game director Brian Heins,…

Time and Seasons in RPGs

Inspired by a recent mod that offers four different landscapes matching the four seasons in the Commonwealth for Fallout 4*, Richard Cobbett penned an article on the passage of time in RPGs for his Rock, Paper, Shotgun weekly columns. In the…

Alpha Protocol is the Great RPG of Last Gen

I’m not sure that many people will give Obsidian Entertainment’s spy-themed RPG Alpha Protocol quite as lofty of a title as Kotaku has in this new editorial piece, but given the fact that I enjoyed the game immensely, it kept…

The RPGs Not Being Announced At E3

Richard Cobbett has penned a new RPG-focused column for Rock, Paper, Shotgun, in which he imagines a number of announcements that won’t be at this E3 for sure. A new System Shock, a Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines x Alpha…