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Conan Exiles Announced

Despite the deliberate expectation-setting that Conan Exiles is an open-world survival game, with the recent announcement and cover reveal for Modiphius Entertainment’s Conan: Adventures In An Age Undreamed Of tabletop role-playing game and Funcom’s own RPG focus on Age of…

Might & Magic Heroes VII v1.7 Patch Coming Next Month

The latest update to the official Might & Magic Heroes VII blog brings word of the team’s plans to release a version 1.7 patch in early February, which will include the promised first campaign of The Lost Tales of Axeoth…

Fallout 4 Editorials

A couple of new editorials regarding Bethesda’s latest post-apocalyptic effort have caught our attention this week, including this piece on SideQuesting entitled “Fallout 4 and the Problem with Choice” and this piece on The Daily Gazette entitled “Gender and Sexuality…

Path of Exile: Ascendancy to Launch in Early March

The team at Grinding Gear Games has spilled more details about their upcoming Path of Exile: Ascendancy expansion pack, including the influence it has had on expanding the company to nearly 70 employees, work that is being done to improve…

Hero’s Song Kickstarter Campaign Cancelled

I’m a huge proponent of including physical goods within the steeper-priced pledges on any Kickstarter campaign, so I find myself nodding in agreement when I read through this update to the Hero’s Song campaign revealing John Smedley and the rest…

Star Wolves 2 Released on GOG

Following the earlier release of X-bow Software’s original Star Wolves, the team at GOG has now added its sequel, Star Wolves 2, to their DRM-free catalogue. If you’re looking to scratch the strategy/RPG itch this week, have a preference for…

CRPGs are Back, and They’re Better Than Ever

Pointing at the availability of Wasteland 2, Pillars of Eternity, Divinity: Original Sin, and Shadowrun Returns, as well as the upcoming releases of Torment: Tides of Numenera and Baldur’s Gate: Siege of Dragonspear, the team at IGN Africa have concluded that “CRPGs…

Torment: Tides of Numenera Previews

inXile Entertainment’s forthcoming RPG Torment: Tides of Numenera is the subject of two new and relatively detailed previews, the first of which comes to us in text form via the editors at Rock, Paper, Shotgun. Here’s a sampling from the…

Darkest Dungeon Reviews

It’s time to round up another batch of reviews for Darkest Dungeon, Red Hook Studios’ newly released and (apparently) high stress-inducing RPG. As with the first batch, the critiques almost entirely fall into the favorable camp. Gameplanet gives it a…

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Geralt?

In their latest installment to “The Mechanic”, the editors at Rock, Paper, Shotgun teamed up with The Witcher 3 lead quest designer Mateusz Tomaszkiewicz in an effort to understand how they managed to tangle the hardened monster hunter Geralt within…