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Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen Fireside Chat Transcript

GamesIndustry.biz recently listened in on a “fireside chat” with Visionary Realms’ Brad McQuaid at Devcom in Cologne, Germany, during which the EverQuest creator talked about a number of topics around Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen, why he thinks players are…

Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition iOS v2.4 Patch Released

Following the release of a version 2.4 patch for the iOS releases of both Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition and Baldur’s Gate II: Enhanced Edition, the team at Beamdog has set their sights on the original Baldur’s Gate and has given…

GB Feature: Vaporum Review

We’ve witnessed the release of quite a few grid-based, fantasy-themed, and Dungeon Master-inspired titles over the last few years, but today we bring you our full review of Vaporum, a new title that breaks that mold by going with a…

Apocalypse Now Campaign Updates, $850,990 and Counting

Since moving from Kickstarter, the official Apocalypse Now RPG website has seen a healthy dose of new crowd-funding updates, including linking us to interviews conducted by Breitbart, the Mainstreet Radio Show, and CBC Spark, providing the game’s primary design document,…

GB Feature: Pathfinder: Kingmaker Interview

Owlcat Games was willing to chat at length about their upcoming CRPG Pathfinder: Kingmaker and the design decisions that have went into it, so we fired a handful of questions their way and have published the results in this new…

Ultima Online 20-Year Anniversary Retrospective

To help ring in Ultima Online’s 20th year of existence, the team at Rock, Paper, Shotgun is highlighting a restrospective they wrote back in 2015 for its 18th annivesary. While the article might be two years old at this point,…

Ultima Online Reaches 20th Anniversary Milestone

Tomorrow will mark twenty years since ORIGIN’s Ultima Online was officially released and ushered in the age of the (graphical) massively multiplayer online role-playing game. It wasn’t the first MMORPG to be released, to be sure, but it was certainly…

The Art of Turn-Based RPGs, Part One: Menu-Based Battles

Using numerous points and examples from a variety of JRPGs, classic franchises like Wizardry, and even recent CRPG releases like Divinity: Original Sin II and Lords of Xulima, role-playing game enthusiast Felipe Pepe has taken an in-depth look at the…