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The Faery Tale Life of MicroIllusions

Some of the most memorable experiences of my childhood are the rare occurrences when my parents rewarded my brother and I with a chance to order a single PC game from the massive J&R Music/Computer World catalog back in the…

The cRPG Fallacy

Concerned with the overuse of the acronym “cRPG” along with a recent callout by PC Gamer that we are enjoying a “cRPG renaissance”, one of the editors at Melted Joystick has penned an editorial to analyze exactly where the “cRPG”…

The Lord of the Rings Online Developer Diary

There’s a new developer diary up on the official The Lord of the Rings Online website this week, in which executive producer Athena (Vvyvanne) Peters reflects on the changes made to the long-running MMORPG in 2015 and gives us a…

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Aerial Screenshots

A user over on the NeoGAF forums has posted a set of screenshots that provide us with spectacular aerial views of the “Velen/Novigrad, Skellige Island, and White Orchard” land masses in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. As the user states,…

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided – Reconquering the FPS/RPG

The folks at Gaming Bolt have editorialized about Eidos Montreal’s forthcoming Deus Ex: Mankind Divided and whether it might succeed in “reconquering” the world of FPS/RPG hybrids as the original Deus Ex did so many years ago. A sampling: It’s…

Project Resurgence Kickstarter Campaign Launched, Seeking $160,000

Back in September of last year, we told you about Nectar Game Studios’ development of Project Resurgence, an early Black Isle/Troika/BioWare-inspired CRPG that they intended to raise the necessary equity for through crowd-funding. Following the release of a teaser trailer later in the…

Talisman: The Horus Heresy Announced

As a big fan of both the Talisman board game and the Warhammer: 40,000 setting, it was pretty exciting to take in this new press release from Nomad Games and Games Workshop announcing Talisman: The Horus Heresy, a new digital RPG…

The Age of Decadence Reviews

It’s been several weeks since we rounded up a set of reviews for Iron Tower’s The Age of Decadence, and since there have been at least a couple of well-written and lengthy ones to ponder about, it seems like a…

Underrail Video Interview, Part One

The latest video interview series to make an appearance on Matt Chat is with Stygian Software’s Dejan “Styg” Radisic, with the topic of conversation primarily being the development, release, and critical reception of their Fallout-inspired RPG, Underrail. This first installment introduces…