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Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem Kickstarter Campaign Updates #12-35

It’s been quite awhile since we checked in on the Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem (formerly known as Umbra) Kickstarter campaign, but since the frequency of updates has been picking up recently, I figured I’d highlight the fact that updates #12…

Battle.net Rebranding Strategy Revealed

No, it’s not one of Blizzard Entertainment’s elaborate April Fools’ jokes. Instead, the company has realized that slapping the name “Battle.net” on the global network infrastructure that has served as the foundation to all of their games and other services…

Sorcerer King: Rivals Screenshots, Let’s Play, and Preview

Stardock’s Brad Wardell has been busy sharing various assets and other tidbits of information for Sorcerer King: Rivals on his Facebook feed as we move closer to the strategy/RPG follow-up’s release tomorrow, including a set of four new screenshots and…

Dungeons & Dragons Online Producer’s Letter

I’m starting to wonder if there was some internal backlash to the news of layoffs and a mobile development focus at Turbine, as we’ve since heard some of the most ambitious plans to date for the now 10-year-old Dungeons &…

The Past and Future of the Roguelike

Rogue: The Adventure Game and a couple of its predecessors kicked off one of the longest-running subgenres in the history of video games, and while it’s nearly impossible to keep track of all the roguelikes available across the globe these…

Spiderweb Software Blog Update and AMA

With the recent release of Avadon 3: The Warborn, Spiderweb Software’s Jeff Vogel has taken it upon himself to pen a few words about the release and host an AMA on Reddit that featured the veteran designer answering a considerable…

Avadon 3: The Warborn Reviews

Spiderweb Software has been honing their craft across many role-playing titles released over the past two decades, but if you’re on the fence about whether or not this experience has culminated into a great conclusion to the Avadon series, these…

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided Reviews

Now that Eidos Montreal’s Deus Ex: Mankind Divided has had a full month to sink in and its strengths and weakness have been more readily identified, it’s time to sift through another round of reviews from across the web. VG247…

GB Feature: Baldur’s Gate Subsite Overhaul

BioWare’s Baldur’s Gate series is what originally put GameBanshee on the map (we were the “official fansite” for both titles way back in the day), so with the continued developments around the Infinity Engine series by Beamdog, we wanted to…