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6 Ways to Improve Turn-Based RPG Combat Systems

Sinister Design’s Craig Stern has penned a list of possible improvements to tactical turn-based RPG combat systems, six of them to be precise. Here’s one I found particularly interesting: (6) Character-centric consequences. I touched on something related to this in…

Torchlight II Launch Still Planned for Summer

I honestly wondered if this was worth posting considered there was no official worth of a delay in the first place, but since the recent development update might have confused someone, I suppose it doesn’t hurt to post that, talking…

Borderlands 2 Preview

The character of “Tiny Tina” seems to be a frequent talking point in late Borderlands 2 previews, and this piece from Stuff makes no exception, focusing mostly on the quest giver’s characterization. I have to admit, I usually read a…

Heroes of Ruin Reviews

Should you be interested in getting the loot hack’n’slash experience made popular by Diablo II and endlessly copied since then in a portable format on your 3DS, you might want to look at these two new reviews we have rounded…

The Secret World Reviews

We have rounded up a couple of new reviews for Funcom’s conspiracy-laden MMO The Secret World, which should receive its first content update by the end of this month. GameSpy, 3.5 For all that, though, The Secret World succeeds as…

J.E. Sawyer on Art and Appreciation

Fallout: New Vegas’ lead designer and project director J.E. Sawyer has taken some time to write a blog post on “art and appreciation”, which, while not directly related to our usual scope of coverage, certainly offers some insight, especially when…

Blizzard CEO Writes Open Letter on Diablo III

Now that roughly two months have passed since the release of Diablo III, Blizzard CEO and co-founder Mike Morhaime has taken the time to write an open letter to the community in which he discusses the game’s troubled launch, the…