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The Banner Saga Preview

There’s a new hands-on preview of The Banner Saga up at Polygon, in which they make the bold claim that Stoic’s Kickstarter-funded title is “a strategy/RPG that makes stats matter”.  And based on the following text, I suspect they’re right: The combat…

XCOM: Enemy Unknown Interactive Gameplay Trailer

In the event that you want to take Firaxis’ XCOM: Enemy Unknown for a spin, but don’t want to wait for the demo to download over at Steam, you might want to give this new interactive gameplay trailer a whirl.…

Torchlight II Development Visualization Video

Runic Games has released a somewhat bizarre “gource” visualization video for Torchlight II that showcases the game’s three years of development in a crazy, colorful, flowery cascade of directories and files. Something like that, anyway: Word is: A gource visualization…

CD Projekt RED Blog Update: Tough Choices

In the latest entry to their official blog, CD Projekt RED’s Maciej Szczesnik covers the tough choices the team has to make throughout the development of a game – from a “like it” system that the studio uses to integrate…

Ultima Online: Memorable Moments from Richard Garriott

With the game having reached its fifteenth anniversary this week, the Ultima Online development team is celebrating the occasion by doing some “Memorable Moments” blog updates. Today’s entry is penned by Richard Garriott himself, and in it he reflects back on…

Path of Exile Voice Acting Introduction Video

Grinding Gear Games has started to add voice acting to their promising action RPG Path of Exile, and to give us a quick taste of what’s to come, they’ve released a new two-minute video. This invokes even more memories of…

Etherlords and Warlords: Battlecry Released on GOG.com

I’ve been extremely busy lately, so it’s only just come to my attention that the fine folks at GOG.com have recently packaged up two classic strategy/RPG titles in their usual DRM-free fashion and put them on sale: Nival Interactive’s Etherlords…