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There are two more updates ready for viewing on the Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption Kickstarter campaign site today, with update #13 diving further into mechanics and update #14 covering some recent online coverage, new add-ons, and “why your pledge matters”.…

Across the last three updates to Stoic’s well-funded The Banner Saga Kickstarter campaign, the small team has shared quite a bit of information about the game’s beta, with tonight’s #26 entry finally announcing that all current backers now have access…

In addition to announcing a free-to-play launch date of November 15th for Star Wars: The Old Republic, BioWare Austin has cranked out a second episode to their F2P preview video series. Lots of commentary and gameplay footage awaits you:

RPG Codex managed to corner Al Escudero for an excellent interview about his involvement with two 20-year-old classic CRPGs – SSI’s Spelljammer: Pirates of Realmspace and EA’s Deathlord. The interview also contains a full retrospective feature for Deathlord, so I’ll…

Deep Silver continues to tout Southend Interactive hack n’ slash platformer Sacred Citadel as an action RPG, and while I’m not sure if that’s really going to be accurate when the game ships in early 2013, I’ll roll with the…

Sinister Design’s Craig Stern has penned an interesting piece that dives into “an examination” of the “unpredictability and control” of turn-based combat. Uncertain outcomes, tactical complexity, and the role that randomization plays are all discussed at length: The most conspicuous…