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ByVal Hull
OnJuly 23, 2018

GOG Video Documentary – Preserving Gaming’s Past & Future

While not explicitly RPG-related, the new Noclip documentary is dedicated to GOG’s ongoing video game-preserving efforts, and it does feature a good deal of RPG footage and anecdotes. The documentary tells us about the company’s humble origins, the work they…

ByVal Hull
OnMay 20, 2017

PC Gamer’s History of RPGs

Richard Cobbett, a well-known pundit when it comes to RPGs, has put together a comprehensive guide to PC RPGs, starting from way back in 1975. With the sheer scope of the RPG genre, some titles get overlooked, but for the…

ByBuckGB
OnApril 1, 2017

Opening the Gold Box, Part 5: All That Glitters is Not Gold

The advancements they made in Curse of the Azure Bonds, player reception to Secret of the Silver Blades, the major drop in sales figures for Pools of Darkness, the team’s foray into sci-fi role-playing with Buck Rogers, their collaboration with…

ByBuckGB
OnJanuary 16, 2017

Gold Box Companion and The All-Seeing Eye Tools for SSI Enthusiasts

At the tail end of Matt Barton’s most recent “Matt Chat” installment, he brings word of two lesser known tools that immediately piqued our interest. The first of these is the Gold Box Companion, a toolset that will go a…

ByWorstUsernameEver
OnMarch 4, 2016

WatchMojo’s Top 10 RPGs From the 80s and 90s

WatchMojo.com has compiled a top 10 of Western role-playing games published during the 80s and 90s, which excludes MMORPGs and only includes one title per franchise. The ten nominations include titles such as The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall, Planescape: Torment,…

ByBuckGB
OnMarch 4, 2016

Eye of the Beholder IV Fan Project Coming to IndieGoGo

I’m not sure if the project will squeak by the inevitable legal turmoil that will result when Wizards of the Coast catches wind of it, but for the time being, it’s worth noting that a small team of Eye of…

ByWorstUsernameEver
OnAugust 20, 2015

Thirteen Gold Box D&D Classics Released on GOG

The Gold Box games have always been one of the few blind spots in GOG’s impressive Dungeons & Dragons catalog of games until today. The folks at the retro-focused digital store have announced the release of 13 D&D-based Gold Box…

ByBuckGB
OnJune 14, 2015

Eye of the Beholder Retrospective Review

It’s fairly difficult not to reminisce about the many great games Westwood Associates/Studios brought to our hard drives as I read through this new retrospective review of Eye of the Beholder, the classic party-based dungeon crawler that was clearly inspired…

ByBuckGB
OnOctober 4, 2013

SSI Gold Box/Silver Box Series Retrospectives

The nostalgic fellows at World 1-1 have been busy cranking out retrospectives for many of the AD&D-based titles that SSI developed during the late 80s and early 90s, and while the list isn’t entirely complete, they’ve definitely shone a spotlight…

ByBuckGB
OnApril 1, 2013

Joel Billings Video Interview, Part Four

The fourth and final installment to Matt Barton’s video interview with SSI president Joel Billings is now available as Matt Chat #188, with this particular episode focusing on the “tough situation” they were in thanks to Electronic Arts’ 20% stake…