Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn Guides & News

Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn

ByVal Hull
OnMay 6, 2017

IGN’s Top 100 RPGs of All Time, Part 5

The final 20 titles that IGN considers to be the best of the best when it comes to RPGs have been unveiled. By now, their editors’ fondness for Japanese games should be quite apparent, so the top picks aren’t that…

ByVal Hull
OnMarch 5, 2017

Baldur’s Gate II: Shadows of Amn Retrospective

Gulf News’ Game Masters column has a retrospective of everyone’s beloved Baldur’s Gate 2: Shadows of Amn. The game definitely deserves all the attention it continues to get, even considering that its original release happened back in the year 2000.…

ByBuckGB
OnFebruary 25, 2017

Baldur’s Gate: Inspiring Easter Eggs Since 1998

In an effort to cast light on several of the games that have incorporated an Easter Egg or two in honor of BioWare’s original Baldur’s Gate series, Beamdog has penned this quick list that may or may not contain some…

ByVal Hull
OnJanuary 25, 2017

Beamdog’s The Familiar on Giving Old Concept Art New Life

In 2016, the folks at Beamdog had a neat idea – to publish a CRPG/Baldur’s Gate-themed digital magazine. They called it The Familiar and ran it for a grand total of two issues. Now, there’s an announcement on the developer…

ByBuckGB
OnJanuary 22, 2017

Five Expansive CRPGs to Bide Your Time Until Torment: Tides of Numenera

After calling out that Planescape: Torment should be your first pick for PC-based adventures prior to diving into inXile’s Torment: Tides of Numenera next month, GameSkinny takes this even further by profiling five other “expansive” CRPGs that would fit the…

ByVal Hull
OnJanuary 19, 2017

TrustedReviews’ 15 Best RPGs

It’s not an easy task to pick 15 best RPGs. TrustedReviews has attempted to do just that. I’ll be honest with you, RPG veterans may not be particularly fond of such a selection that omits a lot of standout games…

ByVal Hull
OnJanuary 1, 2017

PC Gamer’s Best RPGs of All Time 2016 Edition

People love “best of” lists. Knowing this, PC Gamer has provided a timely update to their best RPGs of all time list. The criteria are nebulous at best, and the genre itself doesn’t do them any favors, but this is…

ByVal Hull
OnDecember 28, 2016

Josh Sawyer Interview

RPG Codex has published an interview they conducted with Obsidian Entertainment’s Josh Sawyer. It is extremely long and goes into detail about a whole lot of various topics. An interesting takeaway there are Sawyer’s thoughts on what narrative and mechanical…

ByGPur
OnDecember 20, 2016

Choice in Gameplay: A Retrospective

The development of choice in RPGs is the subject of a long post over at Gamasutra, which charts a path from the ‘80s to present day. A vast cornucopia of games are examined in the opinion piece, which takes us…

ByGPur
OnDecember 19, 2016

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