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Sinister Design’s Craig Stern has penned an interesting editorial on character creation in RPGs and its evolution, which muses on subjects such as the origin of role-playing games, the class-based/skill-based system divide, and some potential solutions to the balance problems…

Rock, Paper, Shotgun’s Alec Meer clearly feels that XCOM: Enemy Unknown’s demo doesn’t do a good job at representing the full game, and took it on himself to clear some misconceptions he feels have risen due to it. Here’s a…

Neal Halford, who you might remember for being instrumental in the development of the original Betrayal of Krondor and also for contributing on the original Dungeon Siege, has started a petition to gauge interest in a “spiritual sequel” to Betrayal…

We have just received a press release from inXile that announces a clothing and accessories line based on the upcoming Wasteland sequel, created in collaboration with geek clothing company J!NX. Here’s the full PR: InXile and J!NX to create clothing…

Rock, Paper, Shotgun is offering a list-type preview for Firaxis’ XCOM: Enemy Unknown, which echoes their previous, positive thoughts on the title. Here’s a snip: 1. Losing a soldier is like being thumped in the knackers with a sledgehammer Perhaps…

Ultima Online lead designer and A Theory of Fun for Game Design author Raphael “Raph” Koster has taken some time to reminisce about the development of Ultima Online now that the game has just turned 15. I’m not sure if…

We have rounded up another bevy of reviews for Runic Games’ sequel to the hack’n’slash Torchlight, which more or less seem to confirm the enthusiastic first impressions we’ve already read. IGN, 9.1 Torchlight II doesn’t do anything radically new, but…

Strategy-focused website Tacticular Cancer has chatted with Snowbird Game Studios’ Vladimir Tortsov about the upcoming Eador: Masters of the Broken World. Here’s an excerpt on combat, heroes, and units in general: How is combat handled and how many units will…

Jay ‘Rampant Coyote’ Barnson muses on the subject of old-school RPGs and what makes them that in his latest blog post, of which I’m going to quote a snippet: For example. turn-based vs. real-time (or (action)). Action-based, (real-time) RPGs have…