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Richard Wilson, Arkane Studios’ lead level designer, attended this year’s GDC where he gave a talk entitled “Mooncrash: Resetting the Immersive Simulation.” The talk revolved around the idea of introducing some roguelike elements to an “immersive sim” game, such as…

Tymon Smektala, the lead game designer on Techland’s upcoming zombie-survival action-RPG Dying Light 2 recently had a chat with WCCFTech. The interview is mainly focused on the game’s fairly prominent RPG elements, and as such, you might want to check…

Following their recent announcement of Baldur’s Gate III, the Larian Studios team brings us a community update video where the studio’s founder Swen Vincke, in his usual zany fashion, tells the tale of how Larian got the Baldur’s Gate license…

TaleWorlds Entertainment’s upcoming sandbox RPG Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord will introduce plenty of new features to the old Mount & Blade formula. Executions is one of those new features and the subject of this week’s developer blog. Execute rival…

The Director’s Cut of inXile Entertainment’s first-person dungeon crawler The Bard’s Tale IV: Barrows Deep was initially supposed to be going live in June, however this Kickstarter update lets us know that the new plan is to have it be…

For a while now, the melee builds in Grinding Gear Games’ free to play action-RPG Path of Exile have felt a bit lackluster, but the latest Legion expansion and its accompanying challenge league aim to change that. The expansion went…

Grimlore Games and THQ Nordic released the standalone Soul Harvest expansion for their RPG/RTS hybrid SpellForce III roughly a week ago. And following a series of fairly positive reviews, the developers have put together an “Accolades” trailer that showcases some…

Bethesda’s Jeff Gardiner and Chris Mayer had a chat with PC Gamer recently, talking about the studio’s multiplayer survival-RPG Fallout 76, the importance of community feedback for the game, its approach to player-created mods, the balancing act behind the game’s…

The French developers over at Spiders, along with their Focus Home Interactive publishers, have put together an impressive-looking story trailer for their upcoming colonial-themed action-RPG GreedFall that’s set to go live in September. The trailer sets the stage for GreedFall’s…