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The dash-missing XCOM: Enemy Unknown is the subject of a new editorial on The Sinepost regarding the game’s usage of probability to determine combat success and the design process that likely went into each decision. Math ahead: Each turn, each…

Following his review here on GameBanshee, our own Eric Schwarz paid a visit to Gamaustra to pen a new blog entry that covers what he feels are the “missteps” that Arkane Studios took with their action/stealth/RPG-lite Dishonored. His thoughts on…

A fistful of reviews for Stardock’s Elemental: Fallen Enchantress have came online over the past few days, and they’re all relatively favorable. GameInformer gives it an 8.25/10: I like Fallen Enchantress. It’s the closest anyone has come to producing the…

While the game is relatively light on character progression, its focus on multiple solutions, game-changing decisions, and the inspirations it draws from Deus Ex and Thief have convinced us to add Dishonored as a permanent entry to our RPG database…

Back in September, we told you about two separate auctions that were going to be held in order to liquidate the many assets that 38 Studios and Big Huge Games left behind when the Curt Schilling-run companies went bankrupt. Those…

IGN is the first major website to offer a critique of Riders of Rohan, Turbine’s latest expansion pack for The Lord of the Rings Online. They score the content-rich expansion with a solid 8.3/10, and conclude with the following verdict:…

Empire Forge Software’s Forge of Legends is a dungeon crawler that’s flown beneath our radar for awhile now, but thanks to an introductory preview written by designer Jeff Sullins for RPGWatch, that’s no longer the case. Since this is the…

Sinister Design’s Craig Stern has been busy uploading an assortment of pre-alpha gameplay videos for his strategy/RPG Telepath Tactics to YouTube, with the eighth such video making its way to the service yesterday. As Craig explains, this latest 11-minute featurette…