Eric Schwarz

Eric Schwarz

Ultima Forever Revealed as a Free-to-Play RPG

Although there have long been rumors of a new Ultima game in development for years now, and we even saw a web site for an upcoming game appear briefly last year, it seems that it’s now official: Ultima Forever: Quest…

38 Studios Vet Responds to Leaked Copernicus Trailer

Former 38 Studios creative director, Steve Danuser, has posted a short article discussing the ill-fated Project Copernicus trailer leaked just yesterday. Copernicus, the long-in-development MMORPG by the now-defunct 38 Studios, looked quite promising. The article gives some insight into the…

RPG Codex 2011 Year in Review

RPG Codex has posted a new article covering 2011’s RPG releases.  While it might be just a little late coming, the article sports the site’s trademark sarcasm, wit, and general ridicule and scorn both for mainstream games companies as well…

Spiderweb Software’s Jeff Vogel on Mass Effect 3

If you haven’t yet got enough of the discussion around Mass Effect 3, Spiderweb Software designer, programmer, CEO and all-around indie RPG guru Jeff Vogel has posted two articles on his personal blog describing his thoughts on the game, including…

The Psychology of Diablo III Loot

If you’re still spending time with Diablo III, grinding for loot as well as upgrading your gear using the Auction House, then you may be interested in Jamie Madigan’s new article, where he references a number of psychological cases to…

Chrono Trigger’s Design Secrets

Chrono Trigger is one of my favorite JRPGs, and one of the few that we’ve always covered here at GameBanshee, so it was certainly welcome to come across a new Gamasutra featured article on the game. Victoria Earl discusses how…

Fable: The Journey Preview

We haven’t seen or heard too much about the upcoming Fable: The Journey, Lionhead’s Xbox 360 Kinect-exclusive title, but Joystiq has brought some new impressions of the game based on the E3 2012 demo. The preview is certainly enlightening, suggesting…

Diablo III’s Real Money Auction House Open for Business

A Twitter update by Blizzard reveals that the game’s Real Money Auction House has officially gone live, allowing players to spend their hard-earned cash to buy harder-earned items rather than in-game gold.  Personally, I won’t be using the feature, but…