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CAPCOM has put up a developer’s blog for their console-exclusive open-world action-RPG Dragon’s Dogma which focuses on “deep customization”, although unfortunately that refers to your player character’s cosmetic appearance: We started experimenting with this technology around the same time that…

Except for the news of its delay there hasn’t been much news about Funcom’s conspiracy-laden MMO The Secret World recently, until now at least, since apparently an embargo has lifted and a bevy of new previews dedicated to the title…

In another installment of Joystiq’s weekly RPG-focused column Rowan Kaiser writes about thematic consistency in role-playing games, and compares early WRPGs’ oft-crazy settings to today title’s ones. Here’s a snip on two well-loved late nineties classics, Fallout and Planescape: Torment:…

Vox Games is offering an article-style post-mortem interview with Techland’s developer senior level designer Piotr Pawlaczyk and writer Haris Orkin about their open-world FPS/RPG hybrid Dead Island. It’s a fairly long read that tackles the challenges the team faced during…

The latest preview for the free-to-play Diablo-like Path of Exile comes via the folks at RipTen, and offers a look at some of the game’s features and selling points, including its impressive number of skills: The skill tree is fairly…