Eric Schwarz

Eric Schwarz

Star Wars: The Old Republic Update 1.5 Released

Star Wars: The Old Republic hasn’t been in the news much the last few weeks, but that hasn’t stopped BioWare from unleashing their long-planned 1.5 update for the game. Most notably, it adds genuine free-to-play gameplay as an option, instead…

Deus Ex Feature Film Director Announced

News has been slowly leaking out about the upcoming Deus Ex motion picture. Today, CBS Films are reporting that Scott Derrickson has been selected to direct the movie. Derrickson is responsible for Sinister, The Exorcism of Emily Rose and The…

Frayed Knights 2 Development Update

We were huge fans of the first Frayed Knights, Jay Barnson’s indie dungeon crawler from last year, and today he’s gone into detail on the updated combat mechanics to feature in the sequel. So I took these two ideas from…

Elemental: Fallen Enchantress 1.02 Patch Released

Stardock’s new RPG-strategy hybrid has received a brand new update in the form of Monday’s 1.02 patch. For those of you playing, here’s the change log: Content Added edge scrolling in tactical Added code so that we can have the…

Morrowind Overhaul 3.0 Released

This one initially passed us by, but it’s been making the rounds lately. Everyone who’s played Morrowind on the PC knows that navigating the hundreds upon hundreds of mods, many of them cosmetic, can be a bit of a challenge,…

XCOM: Enemy Unknown Patch #2 Released (Updated)

Users on 2K Games’ official forum are reporting that the previously-announced update for XCOM: Enemy Unknown is deploying today across the PC and PlayStation 3 versions. We don’t have any official word from 2K Games just yet, but we’ll keep…

Dragon Age Retrospective

As far as I’m aware, Dragon Age isn’t so old a franchise that people have started to forget about it… nevertheless, PopMatters’ Mark Filipowich has decided to take a look back at both Origins and Dragon Age II in a…

Matt Barton on the State of Modern RPGs

Matt Barton, one of our favorite RPG mega-fans, has updated his weekly blog with another article, this one a follow-up to last week’s. Suffice it to say, he’s got a bone to pick with modern RPGs and their developers. I’m…

Dishonored Review

RPG Codex has produced a review of Arkane Studios’ newest RPG/shooter hybrid title, Dishonored. Although debate has broken out over whether it was proper for the site to cover such a game, the author’s feelings on the game mirror our…