Eric Schwarz

Joined: July 23, 2010
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ByEric Schwarz
OnAugust 11, 2012

Spoony Completes His Epic Ultima Retrospective

Fans of Spoony’s curse-laden game reviewing will no doubt be pleased to hear that the Internet personality has completed his years-in-the-making retrospective series on the Ultima games, bringing things to a close with his scathing critique of Ultima IX: Ascension.…

ByEric Schwarz
OnAugust 10, 2012

Battle.net Hack May Be More Serious Than Blizzard Lets On

At risk of sounding like a doomsday herald, software engineer Jeremy Spilman has written an in-depth analysis discussing why he thinks the data of Blizzard customers may not be as safe as the games company claims following a recent security…

ByEric Schwarz
OnAugust 10, 2012

Game of Thrones Interview With Sylvain Sechi

French RPG site Dagon’s Lair has conducted an interview with the lead game designer on the recently-released Game of Thrones RPG, Cyanide’s Sylvain Sechi. The interview covers a range of subjects, including the motivation behind making an RPG, to the…

ByEric Schwarz
OnAugust 10, 2012

Diablo III 1.04 Patch Brings Significant Endgame Changes

Blizzard have updated their blog with an article on Diablo III‘s upcoming 1.04 patch. The update will address several balance issues which Blizzard feel currently hurt the endgame, something they’ve previously admitted is not as well-crafted as they wished it…

ByEric Schwarz
OnAugust 10, 2012

Blizzard Admits to Battle.net Hacking

Though fears of Diablo III hackings have generally died down over the last few months, word now comes that Battle.net has been breached by hackers. Though there are no details on how long the security breach went on for, Blizzard…

ByEric Schwarz
OnAugust 8, 2012

Larian’s Swen Vincke on “Seeking the Golden Path”

Larian Studios’ Swen Vincke has been putting out some great blog articles lately on all manner of subjects. This week’s article is about why Larian are still competing in the “triple-A” category of games, when competition from significantly bigger developers…

ByEric Schwarz
OnAugust 8, 2012

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim v1.7 Patch Coming to Consoles Next Week

PC players have been enjoying Skyrim‘s 1.7 patch for some time now, but Bethesda have just announced via their Twitter feed that the same update is making its way to consoles shortly – specifically, Thursday the 9th on the Xbox…

ByEric Schwarz
OnAugust 7, 2012

Game of Thrones Review

In case you’re still on the fence about Cyanide’s latest RPG, Game of Thrones, you’ll no doubt be interested in PC Gamer’s fashionably late review of the title. They weren’t especially impressed with it, offering a 58% score and some,…

ByEric Schwarz
OnAugust 3, 2012

Steam Dishonored Pre-Orders Receive Free Arx Fatalis, Discount

Those looking forward to Arkane Studios’ upcoming first-person action-stealth-RPG hybrid, Dishonored, will be happy to learn that preorders for the game will receive a free copy of Arx Fatalis, Arkane’s first title from 2002. The sole caveat? You need to…

ByEric Schwarz
OnAugust 3, 2012

Save Some Jink, Berk: August 2nd Edition

Summer’s a great time to kick back and enjoy a few RPGs – all the better if they can be had for cheap. Today we’ve got a round-up of several deals, thanks to sales on Steam, Green Man Gaming, Impulse…