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The Penny Arcade Report has an interesting post-mortem interview on The Secret World with the ex-lead designer on the project, Martin Bruusgaard. Throughout the interview Bruusgaard goes over the feedback the team got during beta, how that ultimately didn’t match…

The latest update to the Loot Drop Old-school RPG Kickstarter campaign comes after the campaign has crossed the $200,000 mark, and presents some additional story info and concept art. Here’s a snip: At 806 employees, Shaker was a far cry…

Eurogamer’s Chris Donlan has penned an editorial on side quests, and what makes them often more compelling than the main plots in RPGs and tangential genres. Here’s a snip: A big part of the answer, of course, is that we’re…

The first verdicts for XCOM: Enemy Unknown, Firaxis’ attempt to reboot (or, I guess, “re-imagine”) the classic X-COM series in a multiplatform environment, but still keeping it true to its turn-based roots, are now out. I imagine that the folks…

Should you be interested in reading another batch of critiques for Runic’s latest, Torchlight II, we have you served with our latest round-up. Digital Spy, 3 Make no mistake, Torchlight 2 is nothing revolutionary. It favors a remix of genre…

Forbes’ Erik Kain wonders how different Borderlands 2 would have been if, instead of going for a first-person aggressive style of play, the developers had opted to make it a third-person cover shooter. Here’s a snip: Cover shooters, unlike most…

We have rounded up a few Guild Wars 2 reviews we hadn’t posted about so far, and it’s safe to say by now that ArenaNet’s title received a quite impressive, if not completely unanimous, critical reception. RipTen, 7.0 While I…

ArenaNet has put together a brief developer blog post on “forging legendary weapons”, which I’m sure players of the title will be interested in reading. Before we get to the text, however, here’s a developer diary video hosted by designer…