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A new DLC for Red Hook Studios’ atmospheric RPG Darkest Dungeon is about to hit Steam on October 26, 2017. This DLC’s main attraction is the Shieldbreaker, a new adventurer for you to recruit, who is a tough yet relatively…

The latest Kickstarter update for AurumDust Studio’s Banner Saga-like RPG Ash of Gods poses a question to the backers – would they be fine with the game getting delayed until March 2018 if the added time was dedicated to expanding…

This Gamasutra editorial praises Star Trek Online’s treatment of the source material, its episodic mission design, and the dialogue box where you actually have to pay attention to what you’re reading. In the author’s eyes, these features elevate this MMO…

Over at PC Gamer, Richard Cobbett wrote an article that compares Larian Studios’ recently released Divinity: Original Sin II with Ultima VII, the game Larian’s boss Swen Vincke considers to be an inspiration for the entire Divinity series. And according…

The developers behind Vaporum have recently asked their players what they thought about the dungeon crawler’s difficulty and which rigs they preferred. The results of that survey are now available on the game’s official website. Overall, it looks like people…

I have to admit, I’m not the world’s biggest fan of collectible card games, and when an NPC in an RPG asks me if I would like to play a hand of Caravan or Gwent, I politely but firmly refuse…

Monolith’s Middle-earth games are famous for their Nemesis system, however, apart from an open world to explore and Orc tribes to conquer in a dynamically evolving fashion, these games also have stories that can probably be considered the most professional…

X-COM, a beloved turn-based strategy from back in the 1990s has been getting some love lately, with Firaxis’ XCOMs, Phoenix Point, and even Nintendo’s Mario joining in on the XCOM-like turn-based action. Jagged Alliance, another 1990s turn-based classic, wasn’t quite…