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GB Feature: Valheim Early Access Preview

While not necessarily checking all of the same boxes that a standard role-playing game would, Iron Gate’s Valheim brings a unique blend of survival, crafting, character development, and sandbox gameplay that piqued our interest during its Early Access launch and…

GB Feature: Diablo II Retrospective

With at least three separate Diablo titles in development – Diablo IV, Diablo Immortal, and a Diablo II remaster – we felt that it would be a good time to author a retrospective for the original sequel and its Lord…

GB Feature: Hades Review

As we kick off 2021, we’ve taken the time to offer a three-page critique of last year’s mythology-based action RPG release from Supergiant Games, Hades. As the fourth role-playing hybrid from the independent studio, the team really seems to be…

GB Feature: Baldur’s Gate II Subsite Overhaul

A few years ago, we overhauled our original Baldur’s Gate subsite to cover all of Beamdog’s Enhanced Edition changes, while also adding a plethora of content for the team’s ambitious Siege of Dragonspear expansion pack. That was a significant amount…

GB Feature: Chad Moore Interview

Given his pedigree of role-playing game contributions that have spanned over two decades of design work, art direction, programming, production management, and more, Chad Moore really shouldn’t need an introduction. But despite seeing his name attached to so many classic…

GB Feature: The Dungeon of Naheulbeuk: The Amulet of Chaos Review

In our latest three-page review, we’ve taken a closer look at Dear Villagers and Artefacts Studio’s party-based RPG that combines turn-based tactical combat with light-hearted comedy. A sampling to get you started: For such a zany, light-hearted title, the game…

GB Feature: Black Geyser: Couriers of Darkness Beta Preview

Any game that draws its inspiration from the Infinity Engine series, has an immediately recognizable isometric viewpoint, and carries a focus on replayability is certainly going to pique our interest. So when Black Geyser: Couriers of Darkness made that apparent…

GB Feature: Operencia: The Stolen Sun Review

Our opinion is that there really aren’t enough Eye of the Beholder-esque dungeon crawlers in the modern era, so with the advent of Zen Studios’ Operencia: The Stolen Sun, we just couldn’t resist taking a deep dive into the latest…

GB Feature: ATOM RPG: Trudograd Preview

Following the release of ATOM RPG: Trudograd on Steam Early Access, we spent some quality time with the standalone expansion and have cranked out a three-page preview based on our experience with the post-apocalyptic RPG follow-up. A sampling of what…