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Eric Boltjes, the lead designer at Guerrilla Games, was talking about the development of his studio’s highly successful open world action-RPG Horizon Zero Dawn during this year’s GDC. Rolling Stone offers a summary of his talk, where we can see…

Personally, I’m not overly enthusiastic about hard medieval settings in video games. Neither am I tired of fantasy or Tolkien-esque cliches. However, if you can’t get enough history in your entertainment and consider games like Darklands and Kingdom Come: Deliverance…

If, in addition to being an RPG enthusiast, you’re also and audiophile, then you might be interested to know that Borislav Slavov’s original soundtrack for Larian Studios’ Divinity: Original Sin II will be released as a limited vinyl edition this…

Dark Crystal Games, a Saint Petersburg-based studio comprised of some former Larian developers, has recently announced Encased, its debut project. An isometric turn-based RPG in the spirit of the original Fallouts, Encased will feature a classless roleplaying system, deep tactical…

The latest update preview on the official Dauntless website outlines the planned user interface changes coming to Phoenix Labs’ free-to-play action-RPG in the near future. As the game heads towards open beta, you should expect to see improved controller support,…

As part of their exclusive coverage of Undead Labs’ upcoming survival RPG State of Decay 2, the folks over at IGN have talked with the developers about the differences between the sequel and its predecessor. The resulting five and a…

Soldak Entertainment’s upcoming RPG that may or may not end up being called Din’s Curse 2 will have you play as a Mutated character. The original plan was to have your characters mutate on death, developing new traits with the…

During this year’s GDC, Stoic Studio’s co-founder Arnie Jorgensen chatted with PCGamesN about the upcoming third entry in Stoic’s narrative RPG series The Banner Saga. He mostly talked about the combat side of things and how you should expect to…

Back in February, when it was announced that Nightdive’s remake of the original System Shock was going on a hiatus, we were given a pretty broad time frame for when it was expected to get back on track, and in…

For this week’s developer livestream, Beamdog’s Phil Daigle is joined by Jonathan Hill. The two of them share the latest Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition and Infinity Engine news, discuss the new and upcoming patches for Beamdog’s games, and announce a…