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Hand of Fate 2, Defiant Development’s attempt to recreate a one on one tabletop experience by merging an action-RPG with a CCG, is about to get meaner, greener, and more shifty thanks to the recently announced free update that promises…

The “Features” trailer that accompanied the first backer beta announcement for Owlcat Games’ upcoming CRPG Pathfinder: Kingmaker offered a few glimpses of the game’s kingdom management mechanics. And now, a new Kickstarter update informs us that the second backer beta…

Faction banners are the subject of this weeks’ Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord developer blog post, which isn’t that surprising of a topic considering the game’s title. We get an overview of the game’s factions and their respective banners, an…

The Desolation of Mordor, the final piece of story DLC for Monolith’s action-RPG Middle-earth: Shadow of War will be releasing in a few days on May 8, 2018. The DLC will have you play as Baranor, the Captain of Minas…

While I personally dispute the notion that nostalgia is the main driving force behind people’s enjoyment of older games, this GamesIndustry.biz interview with inXile’s Brian Fargo offers some neat insights into inXile’s current design philosophy that prompts the studio to…

Vampyr, Dontnod Entertainment and Focus Home Interactive’s upcoming action-RPG, will be launching in roughly a month, on June 5, 2018. And in order to remind us about this, and at the same time direct our attention to the newly opened…

Transolar Games’ adventure/RPG hybrid Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption has entered backer beta, according to the latest Kickstarter update. This beta is said to represent a perfectly playable and reasonably polished Hero-U experience and is expected to run for 6-8 weeks,…

The team at AurumDust Studio has put together a major new update for their narrative RPG Ash of Gods: Redemption. This update introduces a new challenging Iron Man mode, adds a “post-mortem” for the game’s story and a detailed combat…