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Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition Delayed

Initially planned to be released a week from now, Overhaul Studios surprisingly announces a delay for their overhaul of Baldur’s Gate, to ensure it is “the best possible product at launch”.  Word is: When we first announced Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition,…

Fallout Setting Editorial

California Literary Review’s videogame blog has an editorial about Fallout’s setting, its Western/Frontier fee,l and why Boston (the rumored setting for Fallout 4) is the wrong place to set a Fallout game.  Read on, post-nuclear fans: All the hallmarks of…

J.E. Sawyer on Building Better Worlds

Interesting timing with the reveal of their next project in a few days, Obsidian Entertainment project director J.E. Sawyer offers a fireside chat write-up on building better worlds.  Here’s a taste, as usual: No matter what the flavor of the setting…

Brian Fargo Unite 2012 Speech, Wasteland 2 Footage

Brian Fargo’s “The Power of the Crowd” speech from Unite 2012 is now available online on Unity’s own website. He talks about the history of Interplay, videogaming business, working for publishers, how crowdsourcing is changing the nature of the business.…

Bethesda Trademark Hearthfire, Likely for Skyrim DLC

Bethesda has filed to register the trademark Hearthfire “for use with computers and video game consoles; downloadable computer game software offered via the internet and wireless devices”. As Hearthfire is the name of the 9th month on the Tamriel calendar, it’s…

Might and Magic Retrospective Interview

RPGCodex continues their series of retrospective interviews talking with Jon van Caneghem, known for his work on Might and Magic, Heroes of Might and Magic, King’s Bounty and Planet’s Edge. RPG Codex: In what ways did you intend Might and…

BioWare on DLC

BioWare online development director Fernando Mello spoke at GDC Europe about day-one and micropayment DLC. It is pretty much the standard spiel game producers use to justify the business model. Day-one DLC makes business sense, Melo continued, as it meant…