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Since the successful conclusion of Quest For Infamy’s Kickstarter campaign, a few public post-funding updates have been published for the adventure/RPG (you can find them here and here). The updates focus on the post-funding developments with the title, inform late…

Rock, Paper, Shotgun’s Adam Smith has penned a hands-on preview for XCOM: Enemy Unknown, based on his forty hours spent so far with the game. In short, he’s ecstatic about it, and looks like he believes we should be too.…

While unfortunately the team missed its first stretch goal by about $3000, the Expeditions: Conquistador still raised $77,247, making it successful and meaning that, if all goes well, we should expect a turn-based strategy/RPG hybrid with a historical setting in…

For his latest WRPG-focused editorial, Rowan Kaiser focuses about the recent changes in combat mechanics in RPGs, and specifically the concepts that have been introduced in MMORPG, such as threat, aggro, etc. Here’s a snip: Multiplayer games offered a conceptual…

The ill-fated MMO codenamed Project Copernicus, which was to be set in the Kingdoms of Amalur universe that had been first shown in Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, apparently included a storyline that dealt with the consequences of eternal life, at…

Gaming Illustrated is offering a brief preview for Runic Games’ upcoming (next week, in fact!) action-RPG Torchlight II, which contains a look at the game’s various features. Here’s a snip: Arguably the most anticipated feature of Torchlight 2 is the…

Obsidian’s lead designer/project director J.E. Sawyer, who looks to be involved in Obsidian’s super-secret “Project X”, has penned a blog post on the canceled Baldur’s Gate III: The Black Hound, which wasn’t meant to be a direct continuation of the…

IGN has published the first two installments of their review in progress for Gearbox’s Borderlands sequel, which focus respectively on loot and sidequests. Here’s a snippet: Outside of guns, Borderlands 2 presents ample opportunities to let your stats-obsessed side come…

It appears that among the people hit by the recent round of layoffs at Funcom, which involved roughly 50% of the personnel, there is also The Secret World’s lead designer Martin Bruusgaard, who still reassures that the game will go…

BioWare Mythic has published the first of a series of community Q&As on Ultima Online, designed to answer to some of the questions coming from the community. Here’s an example: 4. There’s a number of items that were introduced with…