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Torment: Tides of Numenera Interview

French website Dagon’s Lair is offering a bi-lingual (both French and English version are available at the same page) interview with inXile’s Brian Fargo and Colin McComb on Torment: Tides of Numenera, a spiritual-and-also-actual sequel to Planescape: Torment set in…

Jay Barnson on Unplanned Combat

Jay “Rampant Coyote” Barnson has written his thoughts on encounter balancing, and more importantly, how planning or lack thereof can drastically influence it on his blog, throwing in a few pen and paper anecdotes for good measure. Here’s a snip:…

Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption Post-funding Update #35

The latest post-funding update to the Hero-U Kickstarter is out, and while it’s mostly made of random tidbits and name-dropping of other arguably worthy Kickstarter campaigns, it also includes a few details on the game, which I’ll focus on: Our…

Notch is Funding Age of Wonders III

Eurogamer is reporting that Triumph Studios’ mysterious big partner for Age of Wonders III turned out to be Notch, who was apparently contacted by the developers thanks to a Minecraft loading screen. The gaming industry can be a rather interesting…

Gas Powered Games Bought by Wargaming

Well, we now know what Gas Powered Games alternative options were, as Rock, Paper, Shotgun is reporting that Chris Taylor’s company has been bought by Wargaming, the publisher/developer behind the successful free-to-play title World of Tanks. While this is certainly…

System Shock 2 Released on GOG

As per yesterday’s announcement, today System Shock 2 has been released on GOG for $9.99, with plenty of extras (concept art, design docs and more). For the few of our readers who don’t quite understand why everyone is so excited,…