Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn

Armchair Arcade’s Top Ten CRPGs

We haven’t covered a “top ten” list of role-playing games for quite some time now, so I thought I’d send you over to this list on Armchair Arcade where CRPG enthusiast Matt Barton actually has decades of experience to back…

Picking Favorites

Lists are one of those things we’ll never run out of anytime soon, and Matt Barton, of Matt Chat fame, has put online his Top Ten CRPGs which includes classics like Might & Magic VI: The Mandate of Heaven, Planescape:…

Ray Muzyka & Greg Zeschuk Interview

Gamasutra offers a hefty interview with BioWare heads Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk about their company’s history, philosophy, DLC, and specifically on Dragon Age II and Star Wars: The Old Republic. You’ve mentioned humility as one of the factors that…

Are RPGs Better Than Reality?

You really wouldn’t know it by the editorial’s title, but this two-page write-up on Blogcritics Gaming is essentially a very brief Baldur’s Gate II retrospective that also breaks down four primary tenets that the author looks for in an RPG:…

A Winning Formula: The Common Thread of BioWare Games

Bright Hub briefly editorializes about the successful formula that BioWare tends to use in many of their titles, which they describe as including player choice, multiple endings, and a compelling story. A player whose character is trying to save the…

10 Video Games That Should Be Made Into Movies

Movie website Anomalous Material has cranked out a list of ten video games they feel should be made into movies, and, surprisingly, both the Baldur’s Gate and Fallout series score mentions alongside BioShock. Their accompanying blurbs: One of the greatest…

With Friends Like These…

In a piece entitled “With Friends Like These…”, Games On Net profiles some of the most memorable companions we’ve adventured with across Black Isle and BioWare’s catalogue of RPGs, including Fallout’s Dogmeat, Baldur’s Gate’s Minsc and Boo, Planescape: Torment’s Morte,…