Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn

The Struggle to Bring Back Baldur’s Gate After 17 Years

With Baldur’s Gate: Siege of Dragonspear having landed squarely on our hard drives two days ago, the editors at Kotaku sat down and chatted up the Beamdog development team about the challenges they endured to modernize the series, the reverse-engineering…

Minsc and Boo to Make Another Appearance… in Ravenloft

It’s hard to imagine our friends Minsc and Boo living out their eternal friendship in anywhere but The Forgotten Realms, but according to Jim Zub’s announcement of a new Dungeons & Dragons comic book series, they’re about to be drawn…

The Familiar CRPG Industry Magazine Launches

The team at Beamdog let us know that they’ve launched a new digital magazine called The Familiar, which will focus articles, interviews, game content, fiction, and more for the increasingly popular CRPG industry. The first installment is available for free…

Roles We Take, Roles We Choose

The latest “The RPG Scrollbars” weekly column from Richard Cobbett for Rock, Paper, Shotgun focuses on the way role-playing games implement character roles mechanically into the setting. Specifically, Cobbett investigates the way (a few) developers implement limitations and new opportunities…

David Gaider Leaves BioWare

Just like when Greg Zeschuk and Ray Muzyka left BioWare and Chris Avellone left Obsidian, this is yet again a case where I find it difficult to imagine this particular developer outside the studio he’s worked at for so long. And…

Eight of the Greatest RPG Franchises of All Time

Mass Effect, Fallout, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Pokemon, Baldur’s Gate, Final Fantasy, Ultima, and The Elder Scrolls round off The Escapist’s list of “The Greatest RPG Franchises of All Time”. There are some glaring absences, but I…