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Obsidian’s Five Hard Lessons of RPG Design

Obsidian’s J.E. Sawyer – project director on Fallout: New Vegas among other things – recently discussed the “challenges at the RPG industry has faced in adapting from its pen and paper roots” during a talk at GDC Europe, on which…

The Age of Decadence August Update

The folks at Iron Tower Studios are hard at work polishing and improving the upcoming indie turn-based Age of Decadence, and with this month’s update they inform us on the work done on the game’s interface and crafting system. Here’s…

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim to Use Steamworks

For people who have been following Bethesda Softworks’ recent publishing history it won’t come exactly as a surprise, but it has been confirmed through the Elder Scroll’s official twitter that Skyrim will use Steamworks as DRM of choice for its…

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning Community Q&A #2

GamesCom gave us the chance to know the title’s release dates and witness a new trailer, but in case you’re interested in some additional information about Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning straight from the dev team, look no further than the…

Might & Magic Heroes VI Preview

Games.on.net is the latest publication to offer some hands-on impressions of Black Hole Entertainment’s Might & Magic Heroes VI, and they do it with this brief piece. Here’s a sampling: Skill choices and trees for heroes are almost painfully dense…

Warhammer Online: Wrath of Heroes Announced

During the EA GamesCom press event, Ray Muzyka announced the latest game from BioWare Mythic, the free-to-play competitive MMO Warhammer Online: Wrath of Heroes. There is not a lot of information available on the title so far, but what we…

The Top Ten Greatest Innovations in CRPGs

After giving us his opinions on what he considers to be the best and worst CRPGs, Matt Barton serves us another list and this time it’s about what he considers to be the top ten greatest innovations in CRPGs. Here’s…

Guild Wars 2 Sylvari Video and Blog Post

Since last time we checked, the folks at ArenaNet offered two more features for their Sylvari week, the first being a video entitled “Growing the Sylvari” that depicts how the Sylvari came to be and how their design evolved: The…