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Shacknews is offering a short preview for Runic’s hack’n’slash sequel Torchlight II, which is coming out next week after a long series of delays. Here’s a snippet: I spent my time as a pre-built female Berserker, a far cry from…

PC World is offering a seemingly hands-on preview for Firaxis’ XCOM: Enemy Unknown, based on the build that has been showcased at this year’s PAX Prime. Here’s an excerpt: As is typical for an XCOM title, aliens land on earth…

While we knew about the Mechromancer character DLC and that it’s coming for free to pre-orderers for quite a while, Gearbox Software has only now finally released the details about it, including its release date and the actual name of…

Rock, Paper, Shotgun is offering the second part of the XCOM: Enemy Unknown interview with lead designer Jake Solomon, which this time focuses on more general subjects and trivia. Here’s a snippet on name generation and.. metal albums: RPS: So…

GameRanx is offering a scoreless review for the old-school isometric RPG Inquisitor, which was recently released on GOG after a rather long wait for an English translation. Ultimately, they seem to recommend the game mostly to people used to slower-paced,…

Games.on.net is featuring a a brief editorial that uses the recently released Inquisitor as an example on how the innovations in RPG design make it difficult to go back to old-school titles, or at the very least, some of them.…

We have rounded up a batch of critiques for ArenaNet’s MMO sequel Guild Wars 2, and it seems like the reception the title is receiving so far matches the pre-release hype, though being an MMO, I suppose we’ll have to…