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One of the few elements that weren’t available in The Age of Decadence’s public beta/demo was the indie title’s alchemy system, which has become the subject of the latest update for Iron Tower’s quasi-Roman post-apocalyptic turn-based RPG. Here’s the update:…

We’re only 5 hours from the end of Dead State’s Kickstarter campaign, so it’s not particularly surprising that the updates are ramping up in frequency, although at this point they read fairly similarly, with the latest simply reminding us of…

Despite the good results as far as sales are concerned, Dead Island doesn’t seem to be remembered particularly fondly by the press, which makes the fact that WhatCulture! wrote a list-type editorial to praise what game does right all the…

Only 24 more hours to go for Dead State’s Kickstarter campaign, and the team at DoubleBear is offering another update for it, which essentially reads as a call to arms for backers. In other words, if you’re indecisive about what…

The online edition of EDGE is offering an article-style interview with ZeniMax Online’s director Matt Firor on the upcoming MMO The Elder Scrolls Online. “Streamlining the MMOG” is the tagline: Public dungeons are part of Firor’s personal quest to have…

Jay “Rampant Coyote” Barnson has written down some interesting thoughts on random/unplanned encounters in RPGs and how to handle them. Here’s an excerpt: Unplanned combat encounters force the player(s) to play defense. And not usually with a nice fortified defensive…

Next-Gen Gaming Blog is offering a new, short preview for Gearbox’s Borderlands sequel, which promises to offer more loot-driven first-person action to those that enjoyed the original. Here’s a snippet: As before you’ve four weapon slots to fill, and we…

The folks at Nukapedia, the Fallout-focused Wikia formerly known as The Vault, have chatted with inXile producer Chris Keenan on Wasteland 2. From what I can see there’s not a whole lot of new information, but people starving for some…