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Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Retrospective

Over on Elder Geek, you’ll discover a retrospective piece on Star Wars: KotOR, BioWare’s original D20-based RPG that sparked enough interest to prod the developer into taking two separate development paths – the Mass Effect trilogy and a highly ambitious MMO.  Unfortunately, I’m not sure…

MechWarrior Online Caustic Valley Reveal Trailer

I didn’t get a chance to post about Piranha Games’ revealing of the rocky, pipe-filled, and heat-emanating Caustic Valley zone in MechWarrior Online last night, so I figured it was better to be a little late on this new two-minute…

Drox Operative Previews

We have a couple of hands-on previews for Soldak Entertainment’s Drox Operative to round up this evening, starting with this piece over at Elder Geek that delves further into the space simulation/action RPG: Unlike most action RPGs, Drox Operative does…

GameBanshee Forums Revamped

After an early stint with Ultimate Bulletin Board and over a decade with vBulletin, the GameBanshee Forums have officially jumped to a new forum system called XenForo. Essentially, it’s a much leaner and faster version of vBulletin with a lot…

38 Studios: End Game

Boston Magazine managed to track down Curt Schilling and some of 38 Studios’ other former employees for an extensive nine-page featurette about the company’s short-lived history, the state of Project Copernicus when things went south, the fact that Take-Two was…

Star Wars: The Old Republic Community Q&A

We’ve seen a lot of unfortunate news about BioWare Austin’s Star Wars: The Old Republic lately, so it’s nice to be able to simply point to the latest community Q&A as proof that there are still real humans incorporating player feedback…

Legends of Aethereus Kickstarter Ends at $35,544, Video Q&As

ThreeGates’ action RPG Legends of Aethereus has officially been funded on Kickstarter, with the $35,544 raised throughout the crowd-funding campaign pushing the title through three separate stretch goals that include a potential Ouya version, an exclusive Kickstarter-only VIP room, and a…

Inquisitor Screenshot

The team at Cinemax has once again demonstrated the progress they’re making on the English localization of Inquisitor with a single new screenshot depicting a “thief talking in English to Bishop Vallarian, the Inquisitorial Judge of Hillbrandt.” Keep your eyes…

Ultima Forever: Quest for the Avatar Virtue Cards

As Ultima Forever will be an Ultima IV remake-of-sorts, I suppose it comes as little surprise that BioWare Mythic has been promoting the game’s eight virtues and inclusion of a gypsy character by releasing artwork for various tarot cards. First…