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ByVal Hull
OnJuly 25, 2022

George MacDonald Interview – Matt Chat

The latest episode of Matt Barton’s Matt Chat show features George MacDonald who, back in the ’80s, designed the superhero Champions RPG and then went on to work at SSI and had a hand in designing such classics like Pool…

ByVal Hull
OnApril 21, 2022

Dungeons & Dragons Gold Box Classics – Steam Edition Impressions

Following the recent Steam release of SSI’s Gold Box games, we get this PC Gamer article that takes them out for a spin and shares some general impressions. If you’d like to know what to expect from these games, or…

ByVal Hull
OnMarch 31, 2022

Dungeons & Dragons Gold Box Games Now Live on Steam

The Gold Box Classics bundle, originally scheduled for a March 25, 2022 release, is now available on Steam. The bundle consists of several “collections,” each featuring a number of highly-acclaimed Gold Box RPGs, including the Eye of the Beholder trilogy,…

ByVal Hull
OnMarch 12, 2022

Dungeons & Dragons Gold Box Games Coming to Steam

If you wouldn’t mind having a whole heap of Gold Box games in your Steam library, come March 25, 2022 you’ll be able to purchase a number of bundles on Valve’s digital store. These include the Krynn, Ravenloft and Dark…

ByVal Hull
OnJuly 25, 2021

Rick Francis Interview – Matt Chat

A few weeks back, Matt Barton checked out a curious Neverwinter Nights module that turns Eye of the Beholder (I and II) into a Neverwinter Nights adventure. And if you wouldn’t mind knowing more about this project, you can now…

ByVal Hull
OnJuly 6, 2021

Eye of the Beholder Neverwinter Nights Module – Matt Chat

Now that you’ve had a chance to play through Eye of the Beholder and its sequel with a little help from our new subsites, you may want to direct your attention to the latest episode of Matt Barton’s Matt Chat…

ByBuckGB
OnApril 10, 2021

GB Feature: Eye of the Beholder Content Overload

I hope you’re ready for a heavy dose of CRPG nostalgia, as we’ve conjured up a new subsite dedicated to SSI and Westwood’s original 1991 D&D-based dungeon crawler, Eye of the Beholder. Should the game be on your replay list…

ByVal Hull
OnNovember 8, 2020

Opening the Gold Box, Part 7: Back to the Roots

What looks to be the final part of The Digital Antiquarian’s “Opening the Gold Box” series of posts takes a close look at the twilight years of both SSI, the team behind the Gold Box games, and TSR, the original…

ByVal Hull
OnJune 18, 2020

Eye of the Beholder Trilogy Giveaway and D&D Sale

With this year’s D&D Live event upon us, the folks over at GOG.com are running a special D&D-themed sale, during which you can pick up a good number of heavily discounted RPGs. On top of that, if you act before…

ByVal Hull
OnJanuary 7, 2019

Life on the Grid – The Digital Antiquarian

The latest entry in The Digital Antiquarian blog is dedicated to a number of real-time grid-based dungeon crawlers that followed FTL Games’ Dungeon Master, which pioneered that particular sub-genre of RPGs back in 1987. The article covers both well-known and…