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Neverwinter Nights Retrospective and Interview

The team over at GOG.com has shone the spotlight back on BioWare’s Neverwinter Nights by teaming up with the Neverwinter Vault community and offering up both a “Revisiting Neverwinter Nights” editorial and a retrospective interview with lead designer Trent Oster.…

Pathfinder Adventures Coming to PC and Mac on June 15th

When Obsidian Entertainment originally announced a CCG/RPG hybrid based on the Pathfinder tabletop rules for mobile devices, and then released the game via the Apple store and Google Play store in early 2016, I assumed that we would see the…

The Importance of Crafting Interesting NPCs

Using character examples from a variety of RPG series, including Fallout, Dragon Age, The Witcher, and The Elder Scrolls, one of GameInformer’s editors has authored a new “RPG Grind Time” feature about “the importance of crafting interesting NPCs”. The article…

The Keep Soundtrack Released

The team at Cinemax fired over a press release this weekend letting us know that they’ve released The Keep soundtrack on Steam for the paltry price of $2.99, giving us a means of listening to the game’s 14 tracks when…

Ten Issues with the Modern cRPG

For some light reading on this holiday weekend, I’ll send you over to this blog entry, where a long-time gamer has editorialized about ten issues he has with modern CRPGs in comparison to those of yesteryear. While I don’t see…

Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire Spell Effect Montage Video

Feeling a little share-friendly yesterday, Obsidian Entertainment’s Josh Sawyer took to his Instagram account to post a video of various in-progress spell effects from Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire, including “Ghost Blades, Grimore Slam, Kalakoth’s Minor Blights, and Arcane Reflection.”…

Planescape: Torment Enhanced Edition v3.1.3 Beta Patch

A post on Beamdog’s Facebook page brings word that a new version 3.1.3 patch for Planescape: Torment Enhanced Edition is now in beta, with the primary focus being localization and UI enhancements, as well as support for 64-bit Linux installations.…