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Jade Empire 2: The Sequel That Should Have Been

Arguing that the title deserved a sequel to fulfill its potential, the folks at Nightmare Mode started their “Sequels That Should Have Been” feature series with an installment dedicated to Jade Empire and how a possible sequel could have improved…

Why You Should Care About Alpha Protocol

Shogun Gamer cooked up an editorial dedicated to Obsidian Entertainment’s oft-criticized modern day espionage RPG Alpha Protocol, and the reasons they believe you should care about it. In short, while they don’t deny the game’s many flaws, the replayability and…

Dead Island Reviews

We have rounded up a few more reviews for Deep Silver and Techland’s zombie-themed FPS/RPG hybrid Dead Island, and they seem to be pretty much all favorable at that. Kotaku, scoreless. Each setting is huge and most bring with them…

Single-Player RPGs Do It Better When…

Aside from working on the very promising indie RPG Frayed Knights, Jay “Rampant Coyote” Barnson is probably familiar to some of our readers for writing his opinions on CRPGs and the gaming industry fairly often, and he has done so…

King Arthur: Fallen Champions Released

Originally scheduled for a late August release and then delayed to September, King Arthur: Fallen Champions, the downloadable bridge between King Arthur: The Role-playing Wargame I and II, has been released today. The title is available on both Steam and…

Larian Studios Status Update

Yet another forum status update, this time rather small, comes from Larian Studios’ Swen Vincke, dealing mostly with their strategy/RPG hybrid set in the Divinity universe, Dragon Commander. Small sampling ahead: Post 1 Some really big decisions were made yesterday…

Dead Island Performance Analysis

Eurogamer is offering another one of their Digital Foundry features, this time dedicated to Techland’s Dead Island, and as customary for them, they confront the two console versions and the PC one. Here’s a sampling on the PC version: On…