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In the upcoming 0.5.0.4 update for their hack ‘n’ slash RPG Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem the folks at SolarFall Games will be adding socketable items and gems to the game. There will be 3 socket types and 14 gem types…

Seven: The Days Long Gone, an ambitious isometric cross between a free-roaming stealth game and an RPG, has been out for a few days now and even received a couple of minor patches since release (patch one, patch two). The…

The 1.45 patch for Guerrilla Games’ open-world action-RPG Horizon Zero Dawn was released on Monday, November 27th. It contained quite a few fixes and general improvements for The Frozen Wilds expansion, its quests and economy, but also some new technical…

The latest development update for Snapshot Games’ Phoenix Point shows off a new Phoenix Project vehicle and introduces us to Phoenix Point’s approach to level design through a series of work-in-progress screenshots and video clips. I’ll let you explore those…

A couple of weeks back Piranha Bytes’ Björn Pankratz, the project director on ELEX, has participated in a livestreamed interview with Gamasutra where he talked about the making of ELEX, the ins and outs of being a game developer in…

This Gamasutra article explores the viability of so-called “procedural narratives” within the context of indie video game writing. The article uses Darkest Dungeon and Path of Exile as examples of games that do procedural narratives right and raises some good…

Seven: The Days Long Gone, an isometric open-world stealth-action RPG from ex-Witcher developers is now available on both Steam and GOG for $26.99 or your regional equivalent. In Seven you will play as a master thief who has to navigate…

This week’s Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord developer blog post introduces us to the kingdom of Vlandia, inspired by the France-settled Norse raiders and Western European arms and armor. In Bannerlord, the Vlandians control expansive tracts of land but are…